MLS All-Star Walker Zimmerman on soccer, parenting, faith and representing the United States
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Walker Zimmerman is a professional soccer player for the MLS with Nashville FC. He was originally selected in the first round (7th overall) in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft by FC Dallas and played five seasons there before landing in Los Angeles for two season and coming to Nashville in its inaugural campaign of 2020.
In February of 2020, he scored the first goal in Nashville FC history and was named as the 2020 MLS Defender of the Year.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Walker Zimmerman about his current role with Nashville FC, playing for an audience of one, growing up the son of a pastor, becoming a new dad and what it means to represent his country on the United States National Team.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sports Spectrums podcast is presented by our new football show, Sports Spectrum's Weekly Slant. |
| 0:07.2 | It debuts every Wednesday night, 8 p.m. Eastern and streams on our Facebook and YouTube channels, |
| 0:13.3 | as well as our website, Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:16.3 | And we've got a ton of feedback from you all who've been watching. |
| 0:19.2 | And I understand how cool this is really |
| 0:22.4 | for me to be a part of it, but also to know that this show is so unique in the fact that |
| 0:26.8 | there isn't another football show out there that intersects with faith that brings Jesus |
| 0:31.3 | into the football conversation. And that's what we're trying to do here at Sports Spectrum |
| 0:35.2 | and certainly what we're trying to do with Sports Spectrum's weekly slant. |
| 0:39.2 | So tune in every Wednesday night, 8 p.m. Eastern as we stream live on Facebook, on YouTube, and over at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:47.1 | And then certainly you can go back and watch all of the episodes or stream after it airs live at our website, Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:55.0 | Please tune in. |
| 0:55.6 | I'd love to hear what you think of it. |
| 0:57.1 | Sports Spectrum's weekly slant. |
| 1:08.2 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 1:13.1 | Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome to the show, everyone. |
| 1:19.3 | I am Jason, and this is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:22.1 | We got a great guest today. |
| 1:23.4 | Walker Zimmerman is joining us. |
| 1:25.6 | He's with Nashville SCs, one of the great defenders, really, |
| 1:29.1 | in the MLS, and he is also a member of the United States national team and a two-time |
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