USMNT & Nashville's Walker Zimmerman; Witty on the Weekend

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Grant has a must-listen interview with Walker Zimmerman (20:54), the reigning MLS Defender of the Year with Nashville who recently captained the USMNT in World Cup qualifying. Zimmerman goes in depth on why Nashville has been so successful in its first two years. He also details his experience with the USMNT, what it was like to go from not making the recent initial roster to being the captain in Panama, and what he needs to do to be on the plane to Qatar next year. In Segment 1, Grant and Chris Wittyngham break down the big games in Europe, including Liverpool’s 5-0 beatdown of Man United and Real Madrid’s 2-1 win at Barcelona in El Clásico. In Segment 3, they discuss the job Bruce Arena has done to lead New England to the MLS Supporters Shield and discuss the playing career legacy of Carli Lloyd. Music: Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:09.8	Thank you so much for joining me.
0:11.7	You can check out all my writing these days at grantwall.com, promise it'll be good stuff,
0:18.0	free posts, paid posts, but check it out.
0:21.2	In our first segment today, Chris Wittingham and I will talk about global soccer news.
0:25.8	The second segment will be my interview with Walker Zimmerman of Nashville SC in the
0:30.7	U.S. men's national team.
0:32.3	It's a really good one, so check it out.
0:34.9	And in the third segment, we'll talk about domestic soccer in its different forms.
0:40.2	Let's bring in Chris Wittingham.
0:41.7	How are you, Chris?
0:42.7	Doing all right.
0:43.7	Sunday in football was absolutely insane.
0:47.2	I completely forgot that there was a derby detail.
0:50.0	I didn't even watch it because I mean, you have the NFL going, I'm a big F1 guy.
0:54.3	There was the American Grand Prix today.
0:56.3	I mean, my goodness, what a day of sports and football.
0:59.9	Crazy.
1:00.9	It was pretty great with all the different big rivalry games going on in soccer.
1:07.1	You had Mania and I at Liverpool, you had Barcelona, Real Madrid, you had Inter-Euventus.
1:14.9	You also just had some good games, like Roman Napoli, others at Letico Madrid, Real
1:21.9	Sociadad.
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