US Men's Olympic Coach Jason Kreis; Chris Wittyngham on Soccer News

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Grant interviews Jason Kreis (at 21:41), the head coach of the U.S. Under-23 men's national team, which opens the Olympics qualifying tournament against Costa Rica this Thursday at 5 pm ET on FS1 and TUDN. Kreis explains how he put together his U.S. team, what he hopes its identity will be and what this opportunity means for him as a coach. Before that, Grant and Chris Wittyngham break down Arsenal's memorable 2-1 win over Spurs in the North London Derby and the significance of Olympic qualifying as the U.S. men attempt to qualify for the first time since 2008. 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? 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 Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview guest
0:13.0	is Jason Christ, whose US under 23 men's national team starts the Olympics qualifying tournament.
0:21.2	This Thursday, we've had some great guests lately, including Ian Joy, Shannon McCarthy,
0:27.0	and Crystal Dunn. I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy,
0:33.6	the Freddie do story. All eight episodes are out and you can binge all of them to your heart's
0:40.8	content. We'll have Jason Christ on soon, but let's start with some talk about the soccer world
0:47.4	with my friend Chris Wittingham, the radio voice of Inter Miami, and a co-host of the Chelsea
0:54.0	Mike podcast. Chris, thanks for joining me. How are you? Doing great. I am still odd by the
1:00.3	audacity of a Rabona attempt today, but I'm doing well. This is what we're going to start talking
1:06.3	about here. North London Darby, Arsenal 2 spurs 1. A lot of stuff happening in this game and ahead
1:13.6	of this game, no Pierre-Emerick Obamion, who's been disciplined, did not play, apparently for
1:19.8	missing, being late to a team meeting or something. Home in zone for spurs goes out early injured
1:25.6	in this game. Eric Lamella comes on, scores one of the most outrageous goals I've ever seen
1:32.4	on a Rabona that goes through the legs of a defender, bends it, just insane goal. Then Lamella
1:40.5	gets sent off. Arsenal controls the game, deflected Martin Oedigard equalizer for Arsenal,
1:47.5	Locke-Zett penalty, 10 man spurs has a couple chances late, but does not find the back of the net.
1:54.8	10 man spurs for the best spurs. Exactly. Arsenal wins the game, and you mentioned just the outrageous
2:02.8	ness of even trying a Rabona in the box. I've seen what happens when Rabona's go wrong, and it looks
2:10.6	really bad. I remember being at the confederations cup in 2009 covering USA Brazil, Brazil is stuffing
2:20.4	the US in this opening game, and the US has a rare break, and Clint Dempsey tries a Rabona against
2:29.2	Brazil on the break. Very Clint Dempsey is kind of like the defining thing that Bruce Arena
2:36.2	went said about Clint when he was emerging. He tries shit. He tried a Rabona. There's no more
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