CNN Anchor John Berman, US National Teams Fan

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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After seeing CNN New Day anchor John Berman tweeting about USMNT hopeful Owen Otasowie, Grant decided it was time to get Berman on the podcast, and they have a fun conversation about how Berman became a die-hard fan of the U.S. national soccer teams. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Don't want to pay $65 a month to watch them on overpriced streaming services? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it costs only $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. 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 Football with Grant Wall.
0:09.6	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.4	Today's interview guest is John Berman, the popular co-anchor of
0:16.2	CNN's New Day Morning Show and a huge US national teams fan. We've had some great guests lately including Brendan Aronson,
0:24.8	Pia Soonhaga, and Drake Hills. I also encourage you to check out my new
0:29.8	podcast series American Prodigy The Freddie Adieu's story, all eight episodes are out,
0:36.7	and you can binge all of them to your heart's content.
0:40.2	Now here's my interview with John Berman.
0:45.0	Our guest now is John Berman.
0:47.0	He is the co-anchor of the morning show New Day on CNN with Allison Camarota. He's had a fascinating career. He has
0:55.4	interviewed both me and my wife Dr. Saline Gounder on CNN and for this
1:01.0	podcast purposes he is an active fan of the US national soccer teams.
1:06.0	You can find him on Twitter at John Berman.
1:08.5	John, thanks so much for coming on the show.
1:10.5	It's great to be here.
1:11.5	Am I the only person who's ever interviewed both you and your wife.
1:15.0	I think you're part of a small group.
1:19.0	At this point, and there might be another person or two at CNN I actually I know
1:26.2	Cuomo has because I'm going to tell you a story from the 2014 World Cup in a second
1:30.8	involving Brazil right but it is a select group, and so I always love watching the interview my wife.
1:40.4	I enjoy watching her on the TV.
1:42.4	She's educating us all much more than I am probably
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