US's Shannon McCarthy on Her Kazakhstan Champions League Adventure; Chris Wittyngham on Soccer News

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Grant makes a call to Kazakhstan and connects with Shannon McCarthy (at 26:34), a former University of Miami player who's currently playing with five other Americans for BIIK-Kazygurt in the Round of 16 of the women's UEFA Champions League. The U.S. is the best women's soccer country in the world, which explains why the U.S. is one of the top exporters of women's pro soccer talent to places far and wide. McCarthy tells the story of how she arrived in Kazakhstan, what the soccer is like and what she's experiencing there with her American compatriots. Before that, Grant breaks down the soccer weekend with Chris Wittyngham, including the 1-1 tie in the Madrid Derbi, Bayern Munich's overpowering 4-2 victory against Dortmund in Der Klassiker, Man United's 2-0 victory at Man City to end City's 21-game winning streak, Liverpool's continuing freefall and whether Jürgen Klopp might really be in trouble, Daryl Dike's thunderstrike goal for Barnsley and whether Sacramento might now be out of the picture for MLS with the sudden departure of billionaire primary investor Ron Burkle. 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
0:12.4	guest is Shannon McCarthy, a former University of Miami player with a fascinating story. She's
0:19.9	one of six Americans playing on a team in Kazakhstan that is currently in the Women's UEFA Champions League
0:27.2	round of 16. We've had some great guests lately, including Chef Messing, Kevin Williams,
0:33.7	and Chris Will Dunn. I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy,
0:40.2	The Freddy Adieu Story. All eight episodes are out and bingeable. We'll have Shannon McCarthy
0:47.6	on soon. But let's start with some talk about the soccer world with my friend Chris Wittingham,
0:53.5	the radio voice of Inter Miami and a co-host of the Chelsea Mike podcast. Chris, thanks for joining
1:00.5	me. How are you, my friend? Doing all right, honored to be the second most noteworthy University
1:04.8	of Miami hurricane on the pod today. Nice. Very cool. That's a really interesting interview.
1:11.8	And probably not too many people out there have heard of Shannon McCarthy, but to go to play in
1:17.6	Kazakhstan with five other Americans in Women's UEFA Champions League is a pretty interesting story
1:23.0	that I think you want to listen to. But let's talk about some big games over the weekend around
1:29.4	Europe. And let's start with Letico Madrid, one rail Madrid, one. And maybe the winner here people
1:36.8	are saying is actually Barcelona, which is now within three points of Letico Madrid in La Liga.
1:44.0	But really interesting game, incident-packed as we were talking about earlier. What's
1:49.6	it out the most of you about this game? Well, it was really at Letico not putting the game away when
1:54.4	they had the chance. And it wasn't kind of a typical at Letico game. I saw them away rather at
2:00.0	home away in the Champions League against Chelsea. And it kind of reminded me of same old at Letico. And
2:05.8	so going into this game, I was kind of thinking that, you know, once I saw there were one no
2:09.6	up, it's all right, close up shop. But then you see, they created a bunch of chances and with
2:13.9	better finishing, they could have been two or three no up. And the fact that they didn't put it away,
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