US Soccer Athlete Council Members Brianna Pinto and Nick Mayhugh

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Grant has a fascinating interview with Brianna Pinto of the University of North Carolina, who's on the verge of breaking into the senior USWNT pool, and Nick Mayhugh of the U.S. Para 7-a-side team about their recent election to the powerful Athlete Council of U.S. Soccer. They were joined on a ticket called Next Gen United (average age: 22) by Smith Hunter, currently at Harvard and a member of the U.S. U20 women’s team; Mikey López of the Birmingham Legion in the USL and former men’s YNT player; and Matt Freese of the Philadelphia Union. All five of them won spots on the Athlete Council, which swung the U.S. Soccer presidential election in 2018 for Carlos Cordeiro. Pinto and Mayhugh explain why they wanted to run for the Athlete Council, Next Gen United's platform and how they all managed to win seats. 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 as little as $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.
0:10.0	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:12.0	Today's interview guests are Brianna Pinto and Nick Mayhew,
0:16.8	who've just won election to US Soccer's Athlete Council
0:20.5	with three other young soccer figures as part of Next Gen United, a group whose average age is 22.
0:29.0	We've had some great guests lately, including Angie and Chris Long, Don Garber and Ted Lasso's
0:35.7	Jason Sudakus and Brendan Hunt. It would be huge for this podcast growth if you
0:41.3	could subscribe recommend us to your friends and take just a little time to rate
0:46.0	and review us in Apple Podcasts. Now here's my interview with Brianna Pinto and Nick Mayhew. Our next guests are Brianna Pinto and Nick Mayhew, who just won election to the U. Federation athlete council with three other young
1:05.8	soccer figures as part of a group called Next Gen United. Nick Bri, congratulations. Thanks so much for joining me.
1:15.5	Thank you.
1:16.5	I want to start, I guess, with Brianna first. How did this come together in kind of
1:22.1	who are you guys? you seem awfully young?
1:25.7	And like this rule that you've gotten with the athlete council is is very influential.
1:34.0	Yeah, for sure.
1:35.0	So as everybody can,
1:37.0	as everyone knows, the soccer world is really small.
1:40.0	I've had the pleasure of playing with the youth national teams since I was 12 years old and I met a lot of great people along the way.
1:50.0	So during the 20s camps I met Smith Hunter and we talked about like wanting to be
1:56.0	involved in the women's game and you know advance our careers off the field as
2:00.6	well because that's something we're both passionate about.
2:04.0	Mikey Lopez is another Carolina alum.
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