Ted Lasso's Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Grant geeks out with Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt (at 9:50), who star in the brilliant show Ted Lasso on Apple TV+. They discuss the virtues of Midwestern kindness; the challenge of developing characters from Ted Lasso's origins as a short comedy sketch; the risk that comes with the show's ambitions; Brendan's history of living in Amsterdam and meeting John O'Brien; the anticipation for Seasons 2 and 3 (which have already been green-lit); the real-life coaching inspirations for the Ted Lasso character; and much, much more. Before that, Grant honors the genius of Diego Armando Maradona, who passed away at age 60 last week. 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 $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 Fruitball with Grant Wall. Thank you so much for joining me.
0:11.7	Today's interview guests are
0:13.8	Jason Sudakeus and Brendan Hunt,
0:16.5	two stars of the phenomenal show, Ted Lasso
0:19.6	on Apple TV Plus.
0:21.8	We've had some great interview guests lately including Kyle Kraus, Kate Abdo, and
0:27.0	Jesse Marsh, along with many others, so check those interviews out. It would be huge for this podcast growth if you could
0:34.2	subscribe, recommend us to your friends, and take just a little time to rate and
0:38.9	review us in Apple Podcasts. We'll have Jason Sudakers and Brendan Hunt on soon, but I want to start with our
0:46.3	loss this week of the legend, Diego Armando Manadona. Argentina is my adopted country and I got to attend Marodona's testimonial match in 2001 at
0:57.0	Labombaera, the home of Boca Juniors, and I have never experienced anything before or since quite like it, just a visceral love between a people and their hero.
1:10.0	I got to see Maradonna play in person on two occasions both at Foxborough Mass during the
1:16.3	1994 World Cup and I will forever appreciate that opportunity. I encourage everyone who's interested to see a sief capadia's brilliant documentary
1:27.0	Diego Maradona, which is on HBO in the US.
1:31.0	For now, I wrote a short obituary for Maradonna. in the Five on Five World of Basketball, the 11 on 11 nature of football makes it
1:47.2	nearly impossible for a single superstar to take over a game and lead his team to a championship.
1:55.0	In fact, data research shows that soccer tends to be a weakest link sport,
2:01.0	which is to say that you're only as good as your worst player on the field.
2:06.0	If there is a singular exception, however, it is Diego Armando Manadona's performance at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
2:16.5	In the history of the Men's World Cup, which has now been contested 21 times, no player has ever lorded over a single tournament the way Maradona did that year by
2:27.8	leading Argentina to its second title. Maradona, the flamboyant and controversial legend who died of a heart attack on Wednesday
2:36.8	at age 60, will forever be frozen in time at Mexico City's Estadio Azeca as the 25-year-old genius who confounded the best
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