Insigne To Toronto, Surprise MLS Hires, and The Athletic's John Muller

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this episode, Grant and Witty discuss the latest soccer headlines including a big day in Serie A, Lorenzo Insigne's impending transfer to Toronto FC, and the latest coaching hires and ownership changes in MLS. Then, Grant talks to John Muller (22:50) about his journey from being an attorney to a senior writer at The Athletic covering data and analytics in soccer.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall.
0:09.9	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.6	Our interview guest in today's episode is John Muller, an extremely creative senior
0:17.1	writer at the athletic UK, I think you'll enjoy this one.
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0:51.2	In segment one, Chris Wittingham and I will break down the news in the soccer world.
0:55.9	We'll have John Muller in segment two, but let's bring in Witty.
1:00.5	How are you, man?
1:01.5	Doing all right, kind of going through a little bit of soccer doldrums at the moment,
1:05.5	but you know, we're having fun.
1:07.3	It is sort of a doldrum week.
1:09.8	Very little going on in this part of the world.
1:12.8	I guess Liga MX starts later this week, though they're having some COVID cancellations.
1:17.9	I saw it with Tigres and Santos later in the week, but yeah, there's not as much soccer
1:22.5	happening right now.
1:23.5	And some of what is happening is cup competitions, and I'm not going to go in a round against
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