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Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Interviews with Sergiño Dest and CONMEBOL president Alejandro Domínguez

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Grant has two intriguing interviews in this episode. The first is with Sergiño Dest, the 19-year-old right back for the USMNT and FC Barcelona, ahead of Thursday's MNT friendly against Wales. Dest talks about his excitement over being with the national team this week, his belief that the U.S. could do big things at upcoming World Cups, why he decided to play for USA over the Netherlands and what it has been like to meet and play with Lionel Messi at Barcelona. Then (at 12:54) Grant interviews Alejandro Domínguez, the Paraguayan president of CONMEBOL, the South American soccer confederation. Domínguez tells the story of why he decided to go to the University of Kansas and explains how he became the most powerful figure in South American soccer after the FIFA-gate crisis in 2015. He discusses the potential for another combined Copa América tournament involving teams from CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, whether we might ever see U.S. clubs in the Copa Libertadores and what his confederation is trying to do to grow women's soccer in South America. 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 $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 Grant Wall.

0:07.0

Thanks so much for joining me.

0:11.0

Today we have two interview guests. The first is

0:14.4

Sergenio Dest of the US men's national team and FC Barcelona. The second is

0:20.8

Kanu Ball President Alejandro Dominguez.

0:24.1

We've had some great interview guests lately,

0:25.9

including Arlo White, Brian Schmetzer,

0:28.7

and Joe Lowry, along with many others.

0:31.4

So check those interviews out.

0:33.4

It would be huge for this podcast growth.

0:36.2

If you could subscribe, recommend us to your friends,

0:38.9

and take just a little time to rate and review us in Apple Podcasts. Now here's my interview with Sir Genio Dust.

0:48.5

The U.S. men's national team takes on Wales on Thursday at at 245 PM Eastern on FS1,

0:56.6

to Deane and Unimas.

0:59.0

Joining us now is Sergenio Dest,

1:02.0

the 19-year-old right back for the US men's national team and FC Barcelona.

1:08.5

Sergenio, thanks for coming on the show.

1:10.6

Thank you, no problem. Congratulations on joining Barcelona, which is a huge, huge achievement.

1:18.0

But first, I want to talk about the U.S. men's national team, and this is the first USA game on a FIFA date in a year.

1:27.2

What has it been like for you to come together with the national team again this week.

1:33.0

It has been amazing because, you know, the good, like the COVID situation, like it's horrible for everyone,

1:40.0

especially also for us as soccer players, like play without fans and not like representing your own country. Like for us it was like hard because in October we didn't have a camp in July we didn't have a camp in September and August

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