Legendary ESPN Broadcaster Bob Ley; Chris Wittyngham on the Weekend

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Grant catches up with the legendary broadcaster Bob Ley (17:51), who spent 40 years at ESPN and was front and center on its World Cup coverage from 1982 to 2014. Ley tells some fun stories from covering USMNT World Cup qualifiers over the years and shares his thoughts on the most recent U.S. games, the challenge of finding soccer games on so many streaming apps today, the modern sports media landscape and much more. Before that, Grant and Chris Wittyngham break down the soccer weekend, including Chelsea looking like the team to beat in England, Man United’s wild win over West Ham, a tough week for Leipzig and American coach Jesse Marsch and Atlanta United looking like the Atlanta of old. Music: Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Fruitball with Grant Wall.
0:09.9	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.9	Today's interview guest is Bob Lee, the legendary broadcaster who spent 40 years at ESPN.
0:19.0	You can now sign up for a free or paid subscription to my new newsletter at grantwall.com.
0:25.4	It has all my writing, including on location stories for every U.S. men's world cup qualifier.
0:31.6	I can't tell you how much I appreciate your support with that.
0:35.4	Before we get to Bob Lee, let's start with some talk about the soccer weekend with my
0:39.8	friend Chris Wittingham, who you can hear on Univision Paramount Plus, Inter Miami Radio,
0:45.4	the Dan Lebedard show, and probably a bunch of other places.
0:49.0	Chris, thanks for joining me.
0:50.3	How are you?
0:51.3	I'm still recovering from, I believe we're going to get to this later.
0:53.8	I saw it in the rundown and Atlanta United DC United game that I did yesterday for Univision.
0:58.6	One of the best MLS games I've probably ever done.
1:02.0	Still recovering from that and detoxing with some NFL.
1:05.1	I definitely want to hear more details from your perspective on calling that game.
1:09.0	I love it by the way.
1:10.0	I do a fist pump whenever I see like the official MLS Twitter account post your goal call
1:16.1	in English from the Univision broadcast and you had a few in that game.
1:20.8	Yeah, five and all of them were excellent.
1:23.2	It's unbelievable how good that game was in terms of the raw goal scored.
1:28.1	The two DC United goals, they felt like consolation goals and yet they're both absolutely incredible
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