UCL Semifinal Leg 1 Review, NWSL Season Begins, Janusz Michallik Interview

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Grant is joined by Chris Wittyngham for a conversation about the first legs of Real Madrid-Manchester City and Liverpool-Villarreal in the UEFA Champions League. They then hit on a bit of banter in the Women's Champions League, look ahead to the start of the NWSL season, and bring a joyous bit of sound from Marshawn Lynch highlighting the CCL Final in Seattle. Then, Grant has a wide-ranging interview (28:50) with Janusz Michallik of ESPN and SiriusXM. They talk about Michallk’s journey from Soviet-era Poland to the United States, his 44 USMNT caps and days playing in the indoor MISL and outdoor MLS, his thoughts on what’s happening in the sport right now, his take on Polish-American Gaga Slonina and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:10.3	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.7	Our interview guest today is Janish Mihalik of ESPN and Sirius XM.
0:17.4	You'll really like this interview.
0:18.5	I totally enjoyed it myself.
0:21.1	Before we get going, you can sign up for a subscription to my newsletter at grantwall.com.
0:26.3	It has all my writing, including my new story, handicapping, the U.S. cities, bidding
0:30.7	to host games for World Cup 2026.
0:33.4	I'll also be on site in Seattle next week, writing about the CCL Final League 2.
0:40.7	That's grantwall.com.
0:42.2	Free 7-day trials are now available.
0:45.4	In segment 1, Chris Wittingham and I will break down the soccer news.
0:49.5	We'll have my interview with Janish Mihalik in segment 2, but let's bring in Whitty.
0:54.4	How are you, my friend?
0:55.4	Hope you're motivated by Marshawn Lynch's plea to get you to Seattle to watch the Champions
1:00.4	League Final in person as good of an advert for the ConquerCalf Champions League as there
1:05.5	has ever been.
1:06.8	And there's no disputing that, just an amazing ad from Seattle with Marshawn Lynch.
1:13.2	Yeah, I've watched it a bunch of times.
1:15.0	I'm going to insert it into the podcast right now in this conversation and post.
1:18.8	I'm going to, people are going to, I might, I'll bleep the mother bleepers in there,
1:22.2	but it's the best.
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