Shep Messing on Pelé, Chinaglia, Beckenbauer and the NY Cosmos
Fútbol with Grant Wahl
Grant Wahl
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there! Welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's |
| 0:11.8 | interview guest is Chef Messing, a broadcaster for MSG Network who talks about his legendary |
| 0:18.3 | career, including with the New York Cosmos of Pele, Beckenbauer and Kenalia. We've had |
| 0:24.4 | some great guests lately, including Kevin Williams, Jason Davis and Crystal Dunn. I also encourage |
| 0:31.4 | you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy, The Freddy Adoo Story. All eight episodes |
| 0:38.4 | are now out and you can binge all of them to your heart's content. Now, here's my interview with |
| 0:44.7 | Chef Messing. Our guest now is one of the most colorful figures in the history of American soccer. |
| 0:53.2 | Chef Messing had a long career as a goalkeeper at Harvard University with the 1972 U.S. Men's Olympic |
| 1:00.3 | team, with pro teams like the New York Aeros indoor team, and most famously with the 1977 |
| 1:08.0 | NASL champion, New York Cosmos with Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Georgio Kenalia among others. |
| 1:16.0 | These days, he broadcasts New York Red Bulls Games for the MSG Network here in New York, |
| 1:22.9 | Chef. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Well, Grant, it's my pleasure and really |
| 1:29.9 | consider myself a senior spokesman for the sport. So I want to first congratulate you. I followed |
| 1:35.6 | you for years for the great work you do supporting this sport that we love. And your work |
| 1:42.0 | pales in comparison. I'm afraid to your wife's to leave. So kudos to her for the work she does. |
| 1:48.7 | Thank you. I really appreciate that and appreciate you saying that about her too. I'm really proud |
| 1:53.6 | over. I hope that intro, we could have done a much longer intro because there's a lot to discuss |
| 2:01.0 | with your career over the years. But I want to start. There's a lot of attention right now |
| 2:07.3 | about the new video documentary on Pele on Netflix, which I have to admit I still need to see. |
| 2:14.7 | But this week I did do a rewatch of the film once in a lifetime about kind of the wild story of |
| 2:23.1 | the New York Cosmos in the 1970s. And you are all over this film. And personally, I thought you |
| 2:30.4 | were fantastic in it. I encourage everyone to see it. I saw it on Amazon. What did you think about |
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