USMNT beat Morocco 3-0 + Andy McDermott Interview

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Grant is in Cincinnati to break down the US Men's National Team's 3-0 friendly win over Morocco to start their buildup to the World Cup. Then, Grant interviews Andy McDermott (11:15), the founder and president of Intentional Sports, a non-profit that’s building a big sports facility, including for soccer, on the west side of Chicago. Andy played soccer at Northwestern followed by seven seasons of pro soccer in Germany, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Charlotte. He then spent nine years working as a police officer in Phoenix and then became an actor with his break in the Will Ferrell film Everything Must Go in 2012. From 2017 to 2020 he was the director of culture at the Copa Soccer training center in the East Bay of San Francisco.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.
0:12.2	Our interview guest today is Andy McDermott, a former pro soccer player, police officer
0:17.1	and current actor who's also the founder and president of Intentional Sports, a new
0:22.9	nonprofit facility in Chicago.
0:26.1	Before we get going, you can sign up for a subscription to my writing site at grantwall.com.
0:31.7	It has all my writing, including magazine-style stories and on-site coverage of the men's
0:36.2	and women's game.
0:37.8	That's grantwall.com.
0:41.2	First off, let's have a little monologue.
0:43.2	Chris Wittingham is still under the weather a little bit this week, so please send some
0:48.2	positive thoughts his way.
0:50.1	I did want to discuss the US's 3-0 friendly win over Morocco.
0:54.7	I'm still here in the stadium after the press conference is following the game in Cincinnati,
1:01.2	and good performance overall tonight from the US men's national team.
1:08.6	In control of most of this game tonight and just a terrific performance from Christian
1:14.9	Policic, showing off that first touch again that is so special and when he's on with
1:20.6	it, really world-class, I would argue.
1:24.1	We saw that on the goalie scored in Panama and March during World Cup qualifying.
1:29.0	We saw that first touch again tonight on the first goal Walker Zimmerman sends a ball
1:33.5	over the top and Policic not only controls it, but his first touch actually found more
1:41.7	space, gave him a position to threaten in the box against Morocco, and he has a way of
1:49.8	slowing the game down in the box with so much poise more so than the rest of the players
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