MLS Commissioner Don Garber

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ahead of Saturday's MLS Cup final between Columbus and Seattle, Grant has an entertaining conversation with commissioner Don Garber about a number of topics: The intriguing possibilities of an MLS-Liga MX merger; the landscape for MLS as it heads toward a new domestic TV contract after the 2022 season; the hardest thing personally for Garber during a difficult 2020; the challenges of recently laying off 20% of the employees at MLS headquarters; what he's most excited about for 2021; the possibilities of invoking force majeure and starting a new CBA negotiation with MLS players; his thoughts on how MLS handled Freddy Adu in the early 2000s; and making the case for why an investor should spend $500 million to start an MLS team when it would cost less to buy a top-flight team in Europe. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in Spain’s La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it only costs as little as $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. 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.
0:09.2	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.0	Today's interview guest is MLS Commissioner Don Garber. We've had some great
0:15.8	guests lately including Ted Lasso's Jason Sudakus and Brendan Hunt, Kate Abdo and Arnana Friedrich, along with many others. So check those interviews out. It would
0:26.4	be huge for this podcast growth. If you could subscribe, recommend us to your friends, and take just a little time to rate and review us in Apple
0:34.8	podcasts. Now here's my interview with Don Garber.
0:38.4	The MLS Cup final between Columbus and Seattle is set for Saturday at 8.30 p.m.
0:47.6	eastern on Big Fox and our guest now is MLS Commissioner Don Garber.
0:53.9	Don thanks for coming on the show.
0:55.4	Yeah, it's great to be great to be back.
0:57.9	So as you said, we've done this more times than I could remember from hotel suites to in our offices and it's fun to continue it, albeit from our respective homes with my dog barking in the background.
1:13.2	Can you hear that?
1:14.2	I'm sure my dog will chime in at some point here.
1:17.4	It's been a crazy year obviously.
1:21.5	And just, you know, congrats on getting through it to have this final.
1:27.0	I do want to start with a question about the final.
1:30.0	It's taking place in Columbus, Ohio, a place where the virus is prevalent right now.
1:35.5	We've already seen Saturdays Ohio State Michigan football game there get canceled due to Michigan
1:41.1	COVID cases. Given the testing situation on both
1:45.1	MLS finalists right now as we talk on Wednesday, are you full speed ahead for
1:50.5	your final to take place?
1:51.5	Oh, absolutely, Grant Grant you know I sympathize with one of the
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