ESPN's Jon Champion

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Grant has a fascinating and fun conversation with Jon Champion, ESPN's lead commentator for MLS in the United States. Champion explains why he made the leap in 2019 from England to live in the U.S., what he's learning about America and American soccer culture and how he got into soccer and soccer broadcasting in the first place. Champion has had a remarkable 37-year career broadcasting everything from eight World Cups to the start of the Premier League in 1992 and everything in between. 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? 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, thank you so much for joining me.
0:12.0	Today's interview guest is John Champion, the lead MLS commentator for ESPN in the
0:17.2	United States.
0:18.2	We've had some great guests lately, including Dermott McCory, Rob Harris, and Miguel Delaney.
0:24.6	I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy, the Freddie
0:29.2	Adieu's Story, you can binge all eight episodes to your heart's content.
0:34.8	Now here's my interview with John Champion.
0:39.5	Our guest now is one of the leading soccer broadcasters in the global game.
0:44.5	John Champion is ESPN's lead commentator for Major League Soccer in the United States,
0:49.8	and he's had a phenomenal 37-year career on both sides of the Atlantic, including eight
0:56.1	World Cups and the Premier League from its inception in 1992.
1:01.4	John, it's great to see you.
1:03.1	Thanks for coming on the show.
1:04.6	Thank you very much for the invitation, Grant, lovely to see you too.
1:07.3	I think the last time that we met was over a pre-match meal at MLS Cup 2019 in Seattle.
1:12.6	Little did we know it would be nearly two years before we would speak again.
1:17.2	I miss being at games.
1:18.9	I know you do too.
1:20.6	Oh, so much.
1:21.6	So much.
1:22.4	I was talking to Taylor Toiletman the other day about this, and we're counting down the
1:26.2	days now to when we're actually going to be allowed to go to a game and physically be
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