ESPN's John Sutcliffe; Witty on the Weekend

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Grant interviews John Sutcliffe, one of the top reporters in North America (20:29), about what’s going on with the Mexican national team and the growing bonds between Liga MX and MLS. And Grant and Chris break down the weekend, including the MLS playoff semifinals, movement atop the Premier League, Ralf Rangnick’s first Man United game, Jesse Marsch being out at Leipzig and Cincinnati having interest in Philadelphia coach Jim Curtin. Music: 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.
0:09.8	Thanks so much for joining me before we get going.
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0:30.4	get my posts in your email inbox the second they go out.
0:35.2	In this podcast, segment one will be Chris Wittingham joining me as we discuss this week's
0:40.5	MLS Cup final with Portland hosting New York City and other international news.
0:46.0	In segment two, I have a fun interview with ESPN's John Sutcliffe, largely about Mexico,
0:53.4	and in segment three, Woody and I will talk more domestic soccer news.
0:58.3	Let's bring him in.
0:59.3	How are you Chris?
1:00.3	Doing all right, sir.
1:01.3	Just got off of that ridiculous Eastern Conference final, which had 11 union players out
1:06.8	due to COVID, which had the union going one nil up, but they couldn't hang on a New York
1:11.9	City through to the final.
1:13.2	Pretty incredible story when you think about how that game, you know, just all the players
1:19.2	that Philly was missing 11 due to COVID protocols, and then they go ahead.
1:25.5	And then almost instantly New York City equalizes.
1:29.2	They get the late goal from Tiles Magno, and now they're headed to Portland.
1:35.9	It would have been a really interesting, a fun story for Philly to have pulled it off,
1:40.1	and it would have been interesting to see if they could have gotten their guys back in
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