Hey there. Welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thank you so much for joining me. Today's

interview guest is Melissa Ortiz, the former Colombian national team player who's an analyst

on Fubo TV's coverage of this week's South American World Cup qualifiers. We've had

some great guests lately, including Tom Statham, Caroline Graham Hanson, and Matthew Hoppy,

so check those out. Now, here's my interview with Melissa Ortiz.

Our guest now is a friend of mine, who is everywhere these days. Melissa Ortiz was a

longtime player for the Colombian national team, including in the 2012 Olympics. She's serving

as an analyst for Fubo TV's exclusive U.S. broadcasts of the South American men's world

cup qualifiers, starting with a quadruple header on Thursday. She's also the co-founder

of Kickoff Coffee Company, coffee foresocker people, bisocker people. Melissa, it's great

to see you. Thanks for coming on the show. Thank you so much, Grant. Super excited. When

you asked me to come on the show the other day, I was like, are you kidding me? This is

like ultimate goals. I was like, it's about time now. It's funny because we've gotten

to know each other here in New York City. You've been on my previous show at Sports Illustrated

with Luis Miguel at Chigarri when we were there, but I've seen you at our rowing studio for

workouts over time. We watched games together at Smithfield, the soccer bar here in town,

I am totally fired up for everything you're doing and having you on the show is awesome,

especially because you're so busy this week with the Comma Ball World Cup qualifiers. We're

speaking on Tuesday for a podcast coming out Thursday morning. Thursday afternoon and evening,

you're going to be doing this studio work, analyzing eight straight hours of South American

qualifiers. What are you most excited about with this new gig? Well, on a personal level,

I'm most excited for that it's going to be my first time on live TV. Since I stopped playing and

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