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Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Reaction to USMNT 1, Canada 0; Flavio Zveiter & Ricardo Fort on Their Brazilian Premier League Plan

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Grant and Chris provide their instant reactions to USMNT 1, Canada 0, which gave the U.S. first place in their Gold Cup group. Then Grant interviews Flavio Zveiter and Ricardo Fort (27:18) about their proposal—with up to $1 billion backing—to form an equivalent of the English Premier League with the top clubs of the Brazilian game. 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.

0:09.8

Thanks so much for joining me.

0:11.4

Today's interview guests are Flavio's Fator and Ricardo Fort who are pushing to start

0:17.5

an English Premier League equivalent with all the top clubs in Brazilian soccer.

0:23.1

We've had some great guests lately including Matt Turner, Esmeralda Negrone and Susie Petro

0:27.7

celli and Christine Cupo, so check those out.

0:32.5

But first, let's talk US men's national team one Canada Nill with my friend Chris Whittingham,

0:40.0

who you can hear on Univision Inter Miami radio, the Dan Lebitard show and the Chelsea

0:45.1

Mike podcast.

0:47.1

Chris, thanks for joining me.

0:48.2

How are you?

0:49.2

Doing okay, unconvinced by that US performance, but they are through to the knockout round

0:53.0

as group winners and now await their next opponent, which either be Costa Rica or Jamaica.

0:58.1

What a highly uncomfortable game for the US to end up winning the group.

1:04.4

So we are recording this right after the game.

1:07.8

So Mexico has not played yet.

1:09.1

I expect Mexico will beat El Salvador and that will mean that the US and Mexico will be

1:13.6

on opposite sides of the bracket.

1:15.8

But if Canada had scored and they had chances and gotten a point out of that game, they

1:20.4

would have won the group.

1:21.4

The US would have likely been on the side of the bracket with Mexico.

1:26.0

And on the good side of things, fastest goal in US men's national team history, Shaq Moore

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