ESPN's Sarah Spain, A Chicago Red Stars Owner

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Grant has a fun interview with ESPN"s Sarah Spain, who recently became a member of the ownership group of the NWSL's Chicago Red Stars. Spain explains why she took the leap, how it came about and why public figures investing in NWSL teams has become so popular lately. 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 Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:10.3	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:12.1	Today's interview guest is ESPN's Sarah Spain, who just became a member of the Chicago
0:18.8	Red Stars ownership group.
0:21.6	We've had some great guests lately, including Jason Christ, Ian Joy and Crystal Dunn.
0:28.3	I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy, The Freddy
0:33.0	Adieu Story, all eight episodes are out and you can binge all of them to your heart's
0:39.4	content.
0:40.4	Now, here's my interview with Sarah Spain.
0:45.2	The Chicago Red Stars face the Houston Dash on April 9 in the opening game of the
0:51.8	NWSL Challenge Cup and our guest now is the terrific Sarah Spain of ESPN, who recently
1:00.1	made news in the soccer world by becoming one of the owners of the Chicago Red Stars.
1:05.4	Sarah, congratulations and thanks for coming on the show.
1:08.9	Thanks for having me.
1:09.9	I'm like really part of your soccer world now instead of just, you know, adjacent.
1:13.9	It's great to have you where we actually it's kind of a series now of NWSL owners or
1:20.8	investors who've been on my podcast because my high school friend Angie Long and her husband
1:28.0	Chris actually are the owners of the new team in Kansas City, which I'm very excited about.
1:33.5	I've heard such good things about them.
1:35.5	Oh, yeah.
1:36.8	And you're here on the show.
1:38.9	We've had Merit Paulson, the Portland owner on the show.
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