Luis Omar Tapia Interview

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Grant interviews Univision's Luis Omar Tapia, who's starting his 26th straight season broadcasting the UEFA Champions League. Tapia argues why he thinks English speakers should watch Champions League on Univision (one reason: a lot of it is free), how Spanish-language game broadcasts are different stylistically from English-language ones, the stories behind his hundreds of nicknames for prominent players and coaches (as well as his own nickname, Panda), his thoughts on so many USMNT players (10) playing in this season's UCL group stage. He also tells a great Diego Maradona story. 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.
0:09.8	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.4	Today's interview guest is Univisions
0:14.5	Luis Omar Thapia, who's broadcasting
0:17.3	the UEFA Champions League for the 26th straight season.
0:22.3	We've had some great interview guests lately including
0:25.0	Giorana, Becky Sowerburn, and Fabrizio Romano, along with many others so
0:30.4	check those interviews out. It would be absolutely huge for this
0:34.0	podcast's growth if you could subscribe, recommend us to your friends and take just
0:38.8	a little time to rate and review us in Apple Podcasts. Now here's my interview with Luis Omar Tapia.
0:46.0	Our guest now is one of the legends of soccer broadcasting in this part of the world.
0:53.0	Louise Omar Thapia of Univision is starting his 26th season calling Uefa Champions League games.
1:01.0	It is an absolute pleasure to have him on the podcast.
1:04.2	Louise Omar, thanks for coming on the show.
1:06.2	Thank you very much for the invitation.
1:08.6	It's always a pleasure talking to you.
1:10.4	Yeah, likewise.
1:11.6	Really a lot to talk about too. Before we get the Champions League, which is starting up again here soon, I have a couple of questions for you about your thoughts on the South American World Cup qualifiers so far. We're coming out on
1:25.9	Monday, we're speaking on Saturday, we've seen match day one get completed.
1:31.2	What are your thoughts so far on what we've seen?
1:35.0	As you know, it's South America is one of the most difficult qualifying games around the world.
1:41.0	And but after viewing the first games that it took place in the last couple of days, I think
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