Pre-World Cup USMNT Questions + Jason/Yeganeh Rezaian

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Grant and Chris Wittyngham talk about some of the major storylines from the weekend including Manchester City's defeat to Brentford, Leeds United's defeat to Spurs, and some debates to be solved before the United States open the World Cup. Then, Grant talks to journalists Jason and Yeganeh Rezaian about the situation both on and off the pitch with Iran, who the US will close out group play with at the World Cup. Check out Grant's written work at this World Cup at GrantWahl.com

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:09.6	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.1	Our interview guests today are Jason and Yagane Rezion to speak about US World Cup opponent
0:16.3	Iran, the context of the protests in that country and the inability of women to attend soccer
0:22.3	matches in Iran before we get going.
0:25.2	Subscribe to my writing site at grantwall.com.
0:28.0	We are days away from World Cup 2022 and I'll be providing daily coverage from Qatar.
0:34.7	That's grantwall.com.
0:36.8	Let's bring in Chris Wittingham.
0:38.2	How are you?
0:39.2	I'm doing all right.
0:40.2	I'm glad you did that interview with the guests from Iran because that's probably the
0:44.1	story I think of the World Cup group that I have probably have not dug enough into that
0:49.2	there's huge issues going on in Iran right now.
0:52.3	And Iran obviously have previous with both the US and England in the group.
0:56.6	So it's sort of a politically fraught group as well as a group where there's a lot of
1:01.6	intriguing storylines on the pitch.
1:03.4	Yeah, I really encourage people to listen to the interview.
1:06.2	Jason Yagane Rezion are two amazing journalists who spent time in Iran both were imprisoned
1:12.4	at one point in Iran, which is they've talked about their story written a book, but they
1:18.6	also have great perspective on what's happening in the country right now.
1:23.0	So stick around and listen to that.
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