Sky Blue FC GM Alyse LaHue; Taylor Rockwell on a Big Weekend for USMNT Players in Europe

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Grant interviews Alyse LaHue (at 37:31), the general manager of Sky Blue FC, who has led a complete turnaround of the NWSL team off and on the field since taking over. LaHue tells her personal story, explains what she encountered when she took the job and how she went about making changes. Those have included moving the team's playing venue to Red Bull Arena, changing the training site and adding players like Mal Pugh, Midge Purce and McCall Zerboni. LaHue also shares her opinions on the USMNT stars moving this season to England, why she thinks it's important to have women as NWSL head coaches and why she thinks the NWSL's white players need to do more in support of Black Lives Matter. Before that, Grant breaks down the busy soccer weekend with Taylor Rockwell of the Total Soccer Show. Topics include a big weekend for USMNT players Weston McKennie, Gio Reyna and Tyler Adams; the impact of NBC Sports' decision to put Premier League games behind a new paywall; Liverpool's 2-0 win at Chelsea; the similarities of Kepa Arrizabalaga to Richie Tenenbaum; Man United's 3-1 home loss to Crystal Palace; and why Columbus has been so good in MLS while San Jose and Atlanta have been so bad. 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.
0:09.6	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.1	Today's interview guest is Elise LeHue, the general manager of Sky Blue FC, which she has totally turned around in the NWSL. We've had some great interview guests lately including Gerena, Fabrizio Romano, and Idreis,
0:28.1	our Gandawal, along with many others, so check those interviews out. it would be absolutely huge for this
0:34.6	podcast growth if you could subscribe recommend us to your friends and take just a
0:38.6	little bit of time to rate and review us an Apple podcast.
0:42.7	We'll have Elise LeHue on soon,
0:44.8	but let's start with some talk about the soccer world
0:47.6	with my friend Taylor Rockwell
0:49.4	from our partner, the Total Soccer Show. Taylor, thanks for joining me.
0:54.0	How are you?
0:55.0	I'm good. Thank you for having me.
0:56.0	It's nice to be talking soccer again.
0:57.0	It was what, I think like four and a half days ago everything ended
1:00.0	and now we're right back to talking about a new season and a new
1:03.0	start to that season. It's pretty incredible there really was no off-season big
1:07.6	weekend first big weekend of the new European season and I want to start with Americans in Europe because
1:15.2	we're recording this on Sunday around 530 p.m. Eastern just saw Westin McKinney get the
1:21.8	start for Juventus and his debut they win their game
1:25.9	against Sampdoria 3 nothing and McKinney looked like he belonged what was your sense
1:32.3	he looks like a two? He looks like a Tuso.
1:33.4	He looks like a Janaro Gatuso, like,
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