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Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Landon Donovan Interview; Dortmund-Bayern Preview

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

USMNT legend and San Diego Loyal manager Landon Donovan joins the show, first to ask 10 minutes of good questions about the coronavirus to Dr. Celine Gounder, Grant's wife and co-host of the Epidemic Podcast (at 18:53). Then Grant interviews Donovan about soccer stuff (at 31:10), including his thoughts on the German Bundesliga and the culture around soccer in Germany compared to his experience on loans at Everton. They also discuss Donovan's emotional reaction to Matt Pentz's recent oral history in The Athletic about Donovan's famous World Cup 2010 goal against Algeria—and why Grant was in the stadium that day but didn't see the goal. Donovan also discusses his feelings about sharing the all-time USMNT goals record with Clint Dempsey, what made Dempsey special and why he thinks it's no coincidence that he and Dempsey came from lower-middle-class backgrounds. This podcast is a co-production with our friends at the Total Soccer Show, and to open the show Grant is joined by TSS's Daryl Grove to look ahead to Tuesday's Bundesliga game of the year, Borussia Dortmund-Bayern Munich. They also give their thoughts on the new manufactured crowd noise on the Bundesliga broadcasts, the rise of Bayern's Canadian left back Alphonso Davies and the breakout star turn of Lutz Pfannensteil, who analyzes Bundesliga games on TV, works as Fortuna Düsseldorf's sporting director, is the only pro to have played on six continents and has an insane memoir, The Unstoppable Keeper. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and more. 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 I'm Grant Wall.

0:07.0

I'm Grant Wall.

0:08.0

Welcome to Football with Grant Wall.

0:10.5

I want to thank each and every one of you for joining this new community that

0:14.6

started last week with interviews of Tyler Adams and Julie Fowdy. This podcast

0:19.6

comes out every Monday and Thursday. Today's interview guest is another great one.

0:25.0

Land and Donovan, the manager of San Diego loyal among other things, joins me to talk

0:30.6

soccer and to spend a few minutes asking questions about the

0:34.3

coronavirus with my wife Dr. Saline Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and

0:39.4

co-host of the epidemic podcast. Before that I'm going to spend a few minutes discussing

0:45.0

the soccer weekend, which means Germany, with my friend Darrell Grove of my

0:49.3

partners at the Total Soccer show. It would be absolutely huge for this podcast growth. If you could hit that

0:55.9

subscribe button, recommend us to your friends, and take just a little bit of time to rate and

1:01.8

review us in Apple Podcast. I can't tell you how much that helps early on.

1:06.7

You have been absolutely amazing, so thank you. And joining me now is Darrell Grove.

1:12.1

How are you, Darrell?

1:13.0

I am great. Thanks Grant. I have already hit subscribe and given my five-star review.

1:18.0

Good man, thank you very much.

1:20.0

It's been actually really been overwhelming the amount of support and everything has come from people out there over the past week and you guys a total soccer show have been incredible to work with so thank you.

1:32.0

Thank you very much. Yeah, we've enjoyed it so far.

1:34.5

So let's talk Germany man. The Bundesliga back on week two after their restart and

1:41.6

before we dive into some specifics I want to ask you about

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