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Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Jozy Altidore on injuries, the national anthem, and captaining USMNT

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6859 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

SI senior writer Grant Wahl sits down with U.S. national team striker Jozy Altidore ahead of the team's qualifier at St. Vincent & The Grenadines. Together, the pair talk about Altidore's injury struggles, his return to form, and his interpretation of Colin Kaepernick's sitting down during the national anthem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We've got a special guest on the planet football podcast this week. Grant Wall here was Sports Illustrated in

0:15.2

St. Vincent in the Grenadines ahead of the qualifier between the US and St. Vincent

0:19.3

and the Grenadines on Friday, 330 PM Eastern on B in Sports.

0:24.8

I'm here with Josie Altador.

0:25.9

Thanks for joining me, Joe.

0:27.4

Thanks for having me, man.

0:28.3

Happy to be here.

0:30.4

I wanted to start by just getting into,

0:32.4

you've had a productive stretch here for Toronto this summer

0:36.8

How are you feeling about your form lately? I'm feeling good man. I think the biggest thing for me is just staying healthy I I think I felt really strong, really good the past few weeks and I think that's been a big reason as to why I'm helping the team more and you know getting in good positions, getting in good spots.

0:52.0

Now the last time you and I had talked I think was in early June right the start of Copa America and you weren't involved in that tournament due to the hamstring issue

1:05.2

We talked then about the cool project you had in Haiti and how during that tournament you're working with groups to

1:09.2

show games of Haiti in the US in Haiti.

1:12.8

That was a really cool project.

1:14.1

Thank you.

1:14.8

But also we talked about your hamstring situation

1:18.4

and you know is something that has been kind of an ongoing chronic

1:22.4

or had been an ongoing chronic

1:24.3

issue for you.

1:26.0

But at that time, you told me that you felt

1:28.6

like you were starting to get a handle on what the issue was

1:31.8

and feeling more positive about it moving forward.

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