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Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Hertha Berlin's Arne Friedrich; CBS's Luis Miguel Echegaray

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Grant has two fun interviews on this episode. The first is with Arne Friedrich (at 3:48), the sporting director for Hertha Berlin. Friedrich, who played in two World Cups for Germany and also for the Chicago Fire, explains how he got the job at Hertha; the challenge of trying to build a trophy contender with newly infused investment in the club; the allure of bringing players to one of the world's great capitals; and his love for the United States, where he's friends with athletes like Steve Nash and still owns a house in Los Angeles. The second interview is with Luis Miguel Echegaray of CBS Sports (at 25:38), who talks about his new five-days-a-week podcast called Qué Golazo! Echegaray, who used to host video shows and podcasts with Grant at Sports Illustrated, discusses CBS's soccer strategy; what he's covering on his new podcast; and how he's supported by fellow CBS soccer hires Fabrizio Romano, Aaron West, Jimmy Conrad, Heath Pearce, Jonathan Johnson, James Benge and others. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in Spain’s 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 only costs as little as $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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, welcome to football with Ground Wall.

0:09.7

Thanks so much for joining me.

0:11.2

Today we have two interview guests. The first is

0:14.9

Arna Friedrich who played in two World Cups for Germany as well as for the

0:19.6

Chicago Fire and is currently the sporting director for Herta Berlin.

0:25.0

The second is my old partner, Louise Miguel Eche Gerei, who's now hosting a terrific new daily soccer

0:31.6

podcast for CBS called K Kate Golazzo.

0:35.0

We've had some great guests lately including Landon Donovan, Ted Lasso's Jason

0:41.0

Sudaikus and Brendan Hunt and Kate Abdo along with many others so check

0:46.8

those interviews out. It would be huge for this podcast growth if you could

0:50.9

subscribe recommend us to your friends and take just a little

0:54.4

time to rate and review us in Apple Podcasts. Before we speak to Arna Friedrich I want to do a

1:01.0

short opinion piece on our excitement for Americans at soccer's highest levels lately.

1:07.0

Saturday was a lot of fun if you're a U.S. men's national team fan.

1:12.0

In the same day, 22 year old Christian

1:15.2

Polisic scored for Chelsea, 22 year old Weston McKinney scored for

1:19.9

Juventus, and 18 year old Giorna scored for Dortmund. In the marquee game of the German season so far,

1:27.9

a 3-3 tie between Byron Munich and Leipzig, 21 year old Tyler Adams played a central role for Leipzig, 21-year-old Tyler Adams played a central role for Leipzig, and 20-year-old Chris Richards came on in

1:38.1

crunch time for Byron Munich. 20-year-old Sergio Dest started for Barcelona.

1:44.0

On Sunday, 20-year-old Josh Sergeant started for Verda Bremen against Stuttgart, coached by an American

1:50.8

Pelagrino Madarazzo.

1:52.0

And this week's Champions League group deciders by an American Pelagrino Madarazzo.

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