Jordan Gardner Interview; Daryl Grove on the Soccer Weekend

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Grant interviews Jordan Gardner, the American co-owner of Denmark's FC Helsingor, which clinched promotion to the Danish second tier by the narrowest of margins on Saturday (at 26:45). The San Francisco-based Gardner, who led an American investor group that bought the club a year and a half ago, tells the story of what he has learned trying to bring American business approaches to a team in Denmark. He also explains how Covid-19 has forced his club to adapt—and why he had to alter his initial hopes of developing a raft of young American players there. Before that, Grant raps with Daryl Grove of our partner The Total Soccer Show, about the soccer weekend that was, including why Chelsea and Manchester United are the most fun English teams to watch right now; whether Bayern Munich can keep its current phenomenal form after a long break when the UEFA Champions League resumes in August; whether Lionel Messi might seriously consider leaving Barcelona after next season; whether any NWSL team can challenge dynasty North Carolina Courage; and how we're feeling about the Covid-threatened MLSisBack tournament that's supposed to start on Wednesday. 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.
0:09.1	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:10.6	Today's interview guest is Jordan Gardner an American who's been the
0:15.4	chairman of the board and a co-owner for the last year and a half of Denmark's
0:19.2	FC Helsinki which won promotion to the Danish top flight over the weekend.
0:25.0	We've had some great interview guests lately, including Jurgen Klop, Andreas Kantor, and Sarah
0:29.7	Gordon, among many others, so check those out if you can and it would be absolutely huge for
0:35.6	this podcast growth if you could subscribe recommend us to your friends and
0:39.7	take just a little bit of time to rate and review us in Apple Podcasts that helps people find us.
0:46.0	We'll have Jordan Gardner on soon, but let's take a few minutes to talk soccer news with my friend
0:51.6	Darrell Grove of our partner the total soccer show
0:55.0	Darrell how are you I'm great I'm drowning in soccer I have too man and
1:01.4	Quadruple headers for the last two days of the Premier League not to mention
1:07.2	plenty of other leagues going on it's a lot it is but it's better than none, right?
1:13.0	Because that's what we used to have.
1:15.0	So I feel like I started this off by complaining and I immediately want to retract it.
1:20.0	I don't want to be complaining.
1:22.0	I enjoy drowning in soccer. It's the way I want to go.
1:24.4	If you're going to go, might as well go this way. And I am enjoying it. There's a lot to talk about, so let's dive
1:30.9	right in. I'm going to start this week with soccer in the
1:34.5	United States in Europe we'll get to Europe later here Wednesday night is
1:40.0	supposed to be the start of the
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