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Edge of Sports

Grant Wahl on Soccer's Place In a Coronavirus World

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to the preeminent soccer journalist in the United States, Grant Wahl, about the role of soccer amidst the coronavirus pandemic. We talk about coronavirus, an update on USA women’s soccer lawsuit for equal pay, and more.

We also have some ‘Choice Words’ about the bribery scandal that should be rocking the IOC. In addition, we have ‘Just Stand Up’ and ‘Just Sit Down’ awards to members of the FC Barcelona team for taking pay cuts to help club employees, and people making racist attacks on sports journalist Jemele Hill. All that and more on this week’s Edge of Sports!

Grant Wahl
Twitter: @GrantWahl
Zirin & Boykoff, A Bribery Scandal Hits the ‘2020’ Tokyo Olympics





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everything secure. You know, I've had people ask me, like, are we going to want to go back

0:59.1

to sporting events after all this? And my guess is, my sense is that once we do get the all

1:04.4

clear from Dr. Anthony Fauci, who's the only person I trust at that level, that we can go to stadiums. I think people are going to be

1:14.2

really excited and happy to do something that's part of their lives. You know, it always has been,

1:21.2

and they're probably going to miss it, you know, they're going to miss it even more. I know I do

1:24.7

right now.

1:36.4

Yeah. is it even more. I know I do right now. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Zyron. This week we are talking to the

1:40.9

preeminent soccer journalist in the world, Grant Wall.

1:44.8

I'm going to speak to him about soccer in the age of coronavirus.

1:48.8

Also, I've got some choice words about a bribery scandal that's rocking the International Olympic Committee.

1:54.6

I got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down Awards, but first, let's talk to Grant Wall.

2:26.3

Thank you. but first let's talk to grant wall so before um i ask you anything grant um your your wife, Dr. Selene Gounder, she's been on the front lines of fighting the coronavirus. How is she doing and how is your family? Thanks for asking. She's doing okay. She is an infectious disease doctor. She's done a lot of work in sub-Saharan Africa over the years with TB and malaria.

2:41.0

She went to Guinea for two months during the Ebola crisis. So she's been through some pretty intense stuff in the area of infectious disease.

2:54.1

And what really sticks out to me is she's part-time at Bellevue Hospital here in New York,

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