Philadelphia Union Coach Jim Curtin; Chris Wittyngham on the Soccer Weekend

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Grant interviews Philadelphia Union coach Jim Curtin (at 39:21) about his team's second-best record in MLS, the significance of the Brenden Aaronson sale to Salzburg, how the Union tries to balance being a selling team and a team competing for trophies, why it's important to stick to your guns on a long-term philosophy, the influence of the Bob Bradley coaching tree, and how he has been able to earn every bit of his coaching success, including starting as an interim boss at Philly and getting the wins necessary in 2019 to sign a two-year contract extension. Before that, Grant and Chris Wittyngham of the Chelsea Mike'd Up Podcast break down a busy soccer weekend, including USMNT and WNT Yanks Abroad, the potential title-race impact of Virgil van Dijk's ACL surgery, Sergio Agüero's inappropriate contact with AR Sian Massey-Ellis, Barça and Real Madrid testing positive for the FIFA Flu, Milan's return to Italian contender status and the decision not to award the MLS Supporters Shield in 2020. 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.
0:09.7	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.3	Today's interview guest is Jim Curtin the head coach of the
0:15.6	Philadelphia Union we've had some great interview guests lately including
0:20.0	Musa Oquanga Becky Sourbren and Louis Omar Tapia, along with many others.
0:26.2	So check those interviews out.
0:28.4	It would be absolutely huge for this podcast Growth if you could subscribe recommend us to your friends and
0:34.3	take just a little time to rate and review us in Apple Podcasts some really nice
0:39.4	reviews coming in lately so I appreciate that we'll have Jim curtain on soon, but let's start with some talk about the soccer world and the soccer weekend with my friend Chris Whittingham of the Chelsea-Miked podcast.
0:54.0	Chris, thanks for joining me. How are you?
0:56.0	Yeah, good to talk. It's been a little bit.
0:58.0	Let's talk some soccer news.
1:00.0	Yeah, I'm excited to get it going again.
1:01.0	Really busy weekend with the international window over in club soccer getting going again. I want to start with some Americans because there's so many Americans right now playing in Europe, men's and women's. We'll get to the women a little
1:15.2	bit later here, but Christian Polisic getting his first start of the season for
1:21.1	Chelsea, Tyler Adams getting a start for Leipzig, Giorna getting another
1:28.8	start for Dortmund.
1:32.2	And let's start with Polisicic obviously you watch a lot of Chelsea games
1:35.4	3-3 in this game more defensive follies from the Chelsea side and Kappa, they're goalkeeper.
1:45.0	And, you know, this was a disappointing game for Chelsea.
1:49.0	You got the sense that they should have come away with three points and they didn't.
1:52.0	And from a defensive point of view, there's so much to sort out there and I think part of the whole
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