Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.

Our interview guest today is David Blitzer, the new owner of Rail Salt Lake, as well

as Crystal Palace, Ricardo Peppies, Augsburg, and several other teams in multiple sports.

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out a paid subscription. In segment one today, Chris Whittingham and I will break down the

news in the soccer world. We'll have David Blitzer in segment two, but let's bring in

Whitty. How are you, my friend?

I'm doing all right, sir. David Blitzer is a really interesting character in American

soccer and in world soccer, so I'm glad that you had the chance to sit down with him.

Yeah, he hasn't do a lot of interviews, by the way. This is a guy who's part of the ownership

of the Philadelphia 76ers, the New Jersey Devils. Really interesting guy, enjoyed talking

to him for the first time, and his name has popped up in so much soccer-wise recently,

buying rail salt lake, being involved with Augsburg and the Ricardo Peppie, $20 million

transfer, so stick around and check out that interview everyone. Let's start here with

a little U.S. men's national team discussion. They got three qualifiers starting next Thursday,

El Salvador, Canada, and Honduras. Big games for the United States as it tries to qualify

for World Cup 2022. I want to mention something to you. I just heard this today. Recording this

on Wednesday, I go to every single World Cup qualifier for my site, as you know. I may not

be able to go to Canada, and depending on what happens in the next few days, there may

be some fans for the U.S. that aren't allowed as well. It's kind of a fluid situation, but

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