Pablo Maurer of The Athletic; Chris Wittyngham on Soccer News

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Grant is joined by The Athletic's Pablo Maurer (at 42:17) to talk about his phenomenal new story on George Best's time in the United States during the old NASL days. Maurer, who has also written about Johan Cruyff's U.S. experience and the infamous USMNT New York Times photo shoot before World Cup 2002, explains why he's fascinated by the history of American soccer and spends so much time pursuing these stories. Before that, Grant breaks down the soccer news with Chris Wittyngham. They preview each of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 return legs and the second MLS semifinal. Then they discuss Grant's interview with the execs behind CBS Sports's UEFA Champions League coverage. 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. Thanks so much for joining me.
0:10.8	Today's interview guest is Pablo Maurer of the athletic who talks
0:15.4	about his phenomenal news story on George Best in the NASL. We've had some
0:21.0	great interview guests lately including Yergan Clop, Jordan
0:23.9	Angeli, Jeremy E. Bobisie, along with many others. So check those interviews
0:29.0	out if you haven't already. It would be absolutely huge for this podcast growth. If you could
0:33.8	subscribe, recommend us to your friends and take just a little bit of time to rate
0:38.7	and review us in Apple Podcasts. We'll have Pablo Maurer on soon, but let's start with some talk about
0:45.2	the soccer world with my friend Chris Whittingham who co-host the Chelsea Mic-Dut Podcast, which you should
0:51.5	definitely check out. Chris, thanks for joining me. How are you?
0:54.5	Doing great, happy to do it. Yeah, let's talk a little bit, mostly looking ahead in this
0:59.5	podcast because there's still a little soccer. It's been going on earlier in the week but it's
1:03.6	started to not happen as much around the world but it's coming back because we've got
1:09.0	Uwaifah Champions League starting back up on Friday with two games two more on Saturday
1:16.2	these are round of 16 second legs that didn't get done before COVID hit on On Friday, we've got Uventus Leone,
1:26.0	and Uventus is down.
1:28.0	One-nill heading into this one,
1:30.0	technically going to be at home, no fans, but is this a situation in your mind where
1:36.2	Leon could pull off the surprise?
1:38.2	I mean, it kind of dovetails as well.
1:40.6	We'll talk about Barcelona at some point where you do kind of expect these
1:44.2	bigger clubs to overturn the results from the first leg whether it was Napoli in
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