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Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Canada and Manchester City's Janine Beckie

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Grant has a fun interview with Janine Beckie, the Canadian national team and Manchester City forward who's also working as an analyst for Canada's TSN during the Euros. Beckie, who checks in from her offseason home in Denver, discusses why she chose to play for Canada instead of the U.S., her thoughts on playing in the upcoming Olympics, her thoughts on the USA-Canada rivalry, her experiences with Man City, TSN and the NWSL, and much more. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0

Hey there. Welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview

0:12.0

guest is Janine Becky of the Canadian national team in Manchester City. We've had some great

0:18.2

guests lately, including Tyler Heaps, Fana Cocoo and Paco Via. So check those out. Now here's

0:25.4

my interview with Janine Becky. Our guest now is Janine Becky. She plays for Manchester City

0:33.3

and the Canadian national team. She's currently an analyst for Canada's TSN during the

0:40.0

Euros and the Texas Tech alum has just been named to the Canadian Olympic team four years

0:46.6

after winning an Olympic bronze medal at Rio 2016. She joins me from her offseason home

0:53.6

in Denver, Colorado. Janine, congratulations on everything you're doing and thanks for coming

1:00.1

on the show. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me. I'm happy to be here. Fantastic. So we're

1:05.1

recording this on Monday night. We're coming out Thursday morning. We've just today seen two

1:11.7

astonishing Euro games. France going out to Switzerland and Spain beating Croatia 5.3 and

1:19.3

an extra time. Are you like me? Does it take some time to come down after watching games

1:26.0

like this and talking about them on television? Yes. And especially because I was talking

1:31.4

about them on television through my computer at my home. I was watching them on my computer

1:36.7

and I just don't think it's really said in yet how epic the two games today were and

1:42.0

how in the next year's and for euros and major tournaments for the rest of eternity,

1:47.5

people are going to be talking about this day. It's really true. I mean, sometimes we have

1:53.9

a recency bias, I feel like, but I don't think that's the case today. I think these were

1:59.2

two epic games, like you say, that we're going to be talking about for years and years. Obviously,

2:07.2

there's more games to come in the euros between the time we talked now and when we publish,

2:13.2

it will be two more round of 16 games, including England, Germany. You're doing television

2:20.2

with TSN for the euros and I'm wondering how did that TV work come about and how are

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