Men in Blazers 04/08/24: With Haji Wright
Men In Blazers
Men In Blazers
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🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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"We were on the way to the airport with my family when I got the call with Gregg Berhalter to play Concacaf Nations League. I was really happy but I couldn't share it with my family because they were excited for me to go on vacation with them."
Rog is joined by Haji Wright, Coventry City striker and freshly minted CONCACAF Nations League champion. He told the story of his soccer journey that began in the playing fields of Los Angeles and continued with a grand tour of Europe's top football leagues. He has faced challenges and overcome them, becoming stronger and more skilled. Achieving remarkable moments for both his club and his nation.
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| 0:08.0 | Hey I'm Trey Wingo. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Kevin Frazier and we're teaming up on a new weekly sports podcast called alternate routes. |
| 0:14.0 | Each week on alternate routes we leap into the sports multiverse where we pry open the sliding doors |
| 0:19.2 | of a different what-if moment in sports. |
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| 0:29.2 | You're listening to the Menin' Blazers media network, suboptimal radio. It's Rodge, about to unleash a conversation I had with Hadji Wright of the United States |
| 0:51.6 | men's national team and Coventry for your listening pleasure. |
| 0:55.0 | I just want to say, I love this Jen, a 26 year old Californian, who sounds, so laid back, so soulful and chill, so Californian I guess. |
| 1:06.2 | But he is a gentleman who has given the fans of both his club team and his national team, |
| 1:12.3 | ecstatic moments, ecstatic goals of epic proportion last month and I am |
| 1:17.6 | sorry to any Jamaican walls fans who are listening but there's a couple of |
| 1:22.0 | things I love about this gem. |
| 1:23.6 | The first, just how hard his journey has been, how lonely at times, and how bloody hard this |
| 1:29.7 | gent this has had to prove himself to the football world. But in doing so, the humility that he has retained |
| 1:36.8 | the humility of which he presents himself as we discuss the 2022 World Cup. I ask |
| 1:42.1 | Kaggi what his favorite moment was at the tournament he didn't |
| 1:44.6 | have to wait a beat before answering it was Tim Weir's opening goal against Wales and I |
| 1:49.8 | don't know a single striker who would answer that watching somebody else score while he wasn't even |
| 1:55.8 | on the field as the answer to that question was really a reflection of the profound depth of |
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