Rising Star Drake Hills of The Tennessean

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Grant interviews Drake Hills, a rising-star journalist covering Nashville SC and the soccer beat at The Tennesean and co-host of the Plugged In Podcast. Hills explains why expansion team Nashville did so much better than expected in 2020, describes the Nashville soccer culture and describes his journey from growing up in Augusta, Ga., and San Diego to graduating from the University of Oregon and the prestigious Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern. Included is a discussion on Hills being one of only five Black journalists covering MLS beats last season and his thoughts on MLS teams continuing to pass over hiring Black head coaches this off-season. 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. Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.0	Today's interview guest is Drake Hills, Arise. much for
0:15.0	the the Tennessee in in Nashville.
0:21.0	We've had some great guests lately, including Ada Hegerberg, Raphael Honechstein, and Henry Winter.
0:26.0	I also encourage you to listen to my new podcast series, American Prodigy, The Freddie Adieu Story, all eight episodes are out and you can binge all of them to your
0:36.4	hearts content now now here's my interview with Drake Hills
0:48.0	Our guest now is a rising star journalist in the soccer space. Drake Hills covers Nashville, SC, and the soccer beat for the Tennessean. He co-host the plugged in
0:55.3	podcast on soccer. You can find him on Twitter at Live Life Drake and he
1:01.7	joins me now from Nashville.
1:03.4	Drake, thanks for coming on the show.
1:05.1	Yeah, man, it's a nice day to make a debut.
1:07.6	I appreciate you having me, Grant.
1:10.0	I know it's been a while since we saw each other you know that was uh as
1:14.3	we I think we were talking about off air one of the penultimate fun events
1:17.6	before the pandemic hit hard so it's it's good to see again and good to talk with you
1:22.1	yeah likewise that was out in LA so it's good to see you again and good to talk with you.
1:22.6	Yeah, likewise.
1:23.3	I was out in LA at the MLS Media Day,
1:27.0	almost exactly a year ago, mid-January of 2020,
1:31.2	which literally feels like 10 years ago to me at this point.
1:35.0	But you've been killing it for the last year down in Tennessee
1:39.0	with a team that has done better than expected.
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