US World Cup Draw Reaction, Huge Week For City/Liverpool, Daniel Alarcon Interview

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Futbol with Grant Wahl, Chris Wittyngham joins Grant off the top to break down the latest news from the football world. They discuss the World Cup draw and how they think the US will fare, Liverpool and Manchester City having Champions League quarterfinals on either side of their massive Premier League encounter, Christian Eriksen's goal for Brentford, and more. Then, Grant interviews novelist and journalist Daniel Alarcón (34:10), the co-founder and host of Radio Ambulante who recently won a MacArthur Genius Grant. They discuss his love of the Peruvian national team, his various soccer fandoms (including Arsenal and the New York Red Bulls), the radio culture around soccer in South America, being friends since high school with the novelist and soccer fan John Green, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:10.1	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.8	Our interview guest today is the terrific novelist and journalist, Danielle Alart-Gone.
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0:40.3	In segment one, Chris Whittingham and I will break down the soccer news.
0:44.1	We'll have my interview with Danielle Alart-Gone in segment two.
0:48.8	But let's bring in Whitty.
0:49.8	How are you, my friend?
0:50.8	I'm doing all right, sir.
0:51.8	How are you?
0:52.8	Hang in in.
0:53.8	Recharged a little bit.
0:55.8	I needed this weekend to recharge just because it was a pretty intense trip, as you know,
1:02.9	to the three U.S. men's national team World Cup qualifiers and thrilled to be there for
1:08.1	all of it.
1:09.9	And obviously the World Cup draw on Friday, which we'll talk about in detail here in a second.
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