St. Louis City Sporting Director Lutz Pfannenstiel, Soccer Adventure King

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Grant interviews Lutz Pfannenstiel, the recently named sporting director for St. Louis City, which starts in MLS in 2023. They talk Pfannenstiel's new project in one of the U.S.'s most historic soccer cities, and then they dive into Lutz's incredible soccer journey as told in his memoir The Unstoppable Keeper. Pfannenstiel, a German-born goalkeeper, is the only soccer player ever to compete professionally for clubs on all six FIFA continents, and he tells some incredible stories from his life adventures and misadventures. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Don't want to pay $65 a month to watch them on overpriced streaming services? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in 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 costs only $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 Food Ball with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's
0:12.1	interview guest is Lutz Fadenstein. He's the sporting director for St. Louis City and in his
0:19.2	days as a goalkeeper. He was the only player ever to play professionally on all six FIFA
0:25.9	continents. We've had some great guests lately, including Jack Harrison, John Berman, and
0:32.2	Brendan Aaronson. I also encourage you to check out my new podcast series, American Prodigy,
0:38.1	The Freddy Adieu Story. All eight episodes are out and you can binge all of them to your
0:44.3	heart's content. Now, here's my interview with Lutz Fadenstein.
0:48.9	Our guest now is Lutz Fadenstein. He was recently hired as the sporting director for
0:57.2	St. Louis City, which begins play in MLS in 2023. The German-born Fadenstein is also perhaps
1:05.0	the most interesting man in the world when it comes to soccer. I'm not kidding. Having been the
1:11.3	first player ever to play professionally on all six FIFA continents in an adventure filled career
1:18.2	as a goalkeeper. His book, The Unstoppable Keeper, is fantastic. I have read it after his
1:24.4	playing career. Lutz went into management and was most recently the managing director's sports
1:30.3	at Fortuna Dusseldorf. You've also heard him a lot on television commentary. Lutz, it's great
1:37.2	to have you on, my friend. Thanks for coming on the show. Nice to speak to you again, yes.
1:42.6	You're coming to me from St. Louis. I definitely want to get into your fascinating life story
1:48.6	in a little bit, but I want to start with St. Louis. The last time I saw you, you were in Dusseldorf,
1:55.9	why did you want to join St. Louis? I think, to be honest, for me, having spoken to the owners
2:03.5	about the project, about the vision, it was so exciting. It's a really special place. I think
2:09.4	the history of St. Louis in soccer, as you know, probably better than I do, is really fascinating.
2:15.4	So there is a lot of soccer DNA here in the community and building a club from scratch really
2:22.7	starting at a wide piece of paper is something special. So for me, being a typical football head
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