Jimmy Conrad, World Cup Player Turned YouTube Star

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Jimmy Conrad joins Grant for a candid and funny conversation about defying expectations in soccer and life. Conrad went from being a walk-on to an NCAA champion, from being undrafted to MLS Defender of the Year, from being unheralded to starting games at World Cup 2006. Now he's building a new audience with nearly 100,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.1	Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast,
0:30.8	where I go in depth with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.
0:36.0	On today's show, Jimmy Conrad talks about how he went from playing for the U.S. and a World Cup
0:42.1	to being a cutting edge YouTube star.
0:45.1	He also tells one of the best post-game Jersey exchange stories you'll ever hear from
0:50.2	USA Italy in World Cup 2006.
0:53.0	Well, Del Piero had come on as a sub.
0:55.0	So the first person I see after the game is Del Piero,
0:57.0	and he looks at me and wants to like, hey, you know,
0:59.0	I want to change jerseys.
1:00.0	I was like, nah.
1:01.0	So I waved off Del Piero. I mean, in hindsight, I like,ah so I waved off del Piero I mean in hindsight I like what am I doing but I went straight to
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