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🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall, especially U.S. Women's National Team |
0:12.0 | Olympics edition with my co-host Christine Kupo. |
0:16.7 | Thanks so much for joining us. |
0:18.0 | The U.S. has just lost to Sweden 3-0 that's not a misprint today to start the Olympic Soccer |
0:25.7 | tournament. |
0:27.2 | Christine, it is now 6.50 a.m. in New York City. |
0:32.8 | How are you doing after that result? |
0:34.3 | I am confounded, I am upset, I am Leslie B. We're offended, it's been a rough go. |
0:43.5 | This was not what I first saw ever happening in this universe this morning, so. |
0:48.1 | Well let's talk about it and we'll get to some mailbag questions from people on Twitter. |
0:51.9 | There's a lot of bewildered slash angry folks out there right now, and let's put some |
1:00.1 | things in perspective about how surprising this was. |
1:04.1 | Coming into this game, the U.S. had an unbeaten streak lasting 2.5 years, 44 games, and |
1:12.0 | Vladko Anastaskiy, the coach, had not lost a game since taking over. |
1:16.8 | He'd gone 23 games with 22 wins in a draw against Sweden, that draw by the way. |
1:22.0 | In Vladko had a 79-4 goal difference in his 10 years, the U.S. women's national team coach. |
1:30.4 | Then he gets to a major tournament and they lose 3-0 in the first game. |
1:35.2 | All is not lost, obviously it's a group stage and the U.S. can even finish second or third |
1:40.0 | in the group and still advance, but just a horrible, horrible start. |
1:44.7 | From a soccer perspective, as you were watching this game, what would you see? |
1:48.5 | What happened? |
1:49.5 | I don't know if we thought it was like a big JK, just kidding, we're not really playing |
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