Clint Irwin, Toronto FC Goalkeeper

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Ahead of the MLS Cup final, Toronto FC goalkeeper Clint Irwin talks about the matchup with Seattle, playing high school basketball with teammate Stephen Curry, his willingness to tweet politics and his own remarkable career path from minor-league journeyman to starting goalkeeper in the MLS championship game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Hi, I'm Grant Wall and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in depth
0:32.2	with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.
0:35.8	On today's show, Toronto goalkeeper Clint Irwin talks about this week's MLS Cup final, playing
0:41.8	high school basketball with teammate Stephen Curry, and his remarkable
0:45.6	career journey, including his decision in 2013 to turn down a full-time business job to try to
0:51.8	make it in pro soccer.
0:53.3	What it came down to was I just didn't want to have any regrets about how much I put into
0:58.8	the game and to be able to look back and say, you know, I gave everything I had and if it didn't work out I would be comfortable with that.
1:05.8	And at that point, I felt like I hadn't given everything that I could to make it work.
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