USMNT legend Tony Sanneh goes deep on all 5 US games at the 2002 World Cup
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🗓️ 28 March 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Taylor talks to US men's national team "world class role player" Tony Sanneh about the working being done by The Sanneh Foundation, as well as Tony's experiences of playing very minute of every game for the USMNT at the 2002 World Cup. They also get into the current state of the US Soccer Federation and what needs to be done to improve soccer (across the board) in this country.
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| 0:27.5 | Music Hello everybody and welcome to a very special episode of The Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:47.1 | I'm your host, Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:48.5 | Daryl Grove is not with me today because he has never played for the U.S. men's national team. |
| 0:52.8 | So who needs him? |
| 0:53.9 | Because Tony Santa has and Tony is with me on the line. Tony, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the show. Thank you. I'm happy to be here. Yeah, so it's very exciting to get to speak to you. Obviously, the 2002 World Cup team holds a special place and a lot of U.S. soccer fans' collective hearts. And you play a |
| 1:12.1 | very big part of that. But obviously, you've done a little bit of stuff since that time period, |
| 1:17.5 | specifically with the SanaF Foundation. I wanted to start there. I wanted to talk a little bit about |
| 1:21.9 | the work you all are doing and how it first came to be. Well, you know, it came to be when, actually, a volunteer just asked me if I would help them get |
| 1:31.5 | them some gear and that I had pull with the parks and stuff that I asked her what she needed. |
| 1:37.2 | She's like, I need about $500 for some balls, t-shirts, and I'm going to run free soccer |
| 1:41.6 | camp for people. |
| 1:42.8 | And I'm like, that was easy. |
| 1:44.0 | And she put my name on it. |
| 1:46.3 | And so I was like, you know what? |
| 1:48.7 | Like at this point, I should be using my influence for more and I can afford it. |
| 1:53.2 | And I'm an Adidas contract at the time. |
| 1:55.3 | So after the World Cup, I set up an official organization and really used it as a pass-through |
| 2:02.2 | as a way to donate. But then got into anti-racism work and just helping, you know, |
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