Interview of Roma's Henrikh Mkhitaryan; Daryl Grove on All the US Soccer News

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Grant Wahl

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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Grant has a revealing interview with Henrikh Mkhitaryan (starting at 30:55), the best player ever from Armenia, who has had an impressive season with Roma on loan from Arsenal. Mkhitaryan discusses the benefits of his ability to speak six languages fluently, why Premier League players have adapted well to Serie A, why he'd prefer to stay longer at Roma instead of returning to Arsenal, what it felt like to miss a European final due to not feeling safe in Azerbaijan, his greatest goal ever, and the positives and negatives of having as his agent Mino Raiola, the Scott Boras of European soccer. Before that, Grant catches up on the soccer news with Daryl Grove of our partners the Total Soccer Show. They discuss the new voice found by the young leaders of the USMNT during the protests against police brutality against black Americans; the long-term impact of the relationship between MLS players and owners being "set back years" by the threat of a lockout; the impact of Timo Werner's expected move to Chelsea for Christian Pulisic; Grant's concern that Megan Rapinoe may never play again competitively; and, with La Liga starting again on Thursday, the importance of watching Lionel Messi (soon to turn 33) while we still can. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall.
0:09.0	Thanks so much again for joining this new community that we've started with interviews of Tony
0:14.6	Sani Roberto Martinez, Tyler Adams, Marcello Balboa, Landon Donovan,
0:19.8	Derek Ray, and Julie Fowdy. Today's interview guest is Roma's Henric Mikatorian,
0:26.0	a fascinating guy who speaks six languages
0:29.0	and talks to me about a number of topics,
0:31.0	including why his adjustment to Roma has gone well, what COVID has been
0:35.2	like in Italy, what it's like to work with his super agent, Mino Ryola, and whether he'd like to go back
0:41.2	to Arsenal or stay at Roma once his loan ends.
0:45.2	It would be absolutely huge for this podcast growth.
0:47.9	If you could subscribe, recommend us to your friends, and take just a little bit of time
0:52.4	to rate and review us in Apple
0:54.4	podcasts. Before we get to Henric Mick Atari and let's bring on Darryl
0:59.1	Grew from the Total Soccer Show to talk soccer news.
1:02.8	Darryl, how are you?
1:04.1	I'm good, thanks, Grands, how you doing?
1:05.8	I'm doing okay.
1:07.2	You know, it's been interesting to see soccer, get going again.
1:10.2	We're on the verge of having not just Germany playing games. So I'm fired up about that. We'll talk a bit about Spain here later on.
1:19.2	Obviously a lot's going on in the world right now. It's going on in your city where you live in
1:25.2	Richmond, Virginia. It's going on in New York, where I live, all over the United
1:29.4	States, all over the world, the protests are happening about police brutality racism George
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