Suzy Wrack, Women's Soccer Writer for The Guardian

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Grant speaks to Suzy Wrack, who covers women's soccer and women's sports for The Guardian, about a number of topics: Her blockbuster investigative story revealing sexual, physical and emotional abuse of Afghanistan women's national team players by the leaders of the Afghan soccer federation; her thoughts on the England national team and the rise of the English women's league; her visit to New York to interview Megan Rapinoe; the growing trend of British media outlets hiring full-time writers to cover women's soccer and her story of how she got into the media business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.7	Hey there I'm Grant Wall. Welcome to the Planet Football
0:31.5	podcast our interview guest today is Susie Rack, the women's soccer and women's sports reporter for The Guardian.
0:39.0	Our interview was recorded on December 11th. A quick reminder, if you like the podcast,
0:44.5	it would really help us if you go to Apple Podcasts
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0:49.6	And we'd appreciate you recommending the podcast
0:52.2	to someone you know.
0:53.4	Onward.
0:54.6	Our guest today is Susie Rach.
0:57.1	She is the women's football and women's sports writer for The Guardian.
1:00.7	She was recently one of seven nominees in the sports category of the
1:04.8	British Journalism Awards and she happens to be in New York right now which is
1:09.1	fantastic.
1:10.1	Susie, thanks for coming on the show.
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