USMNT's Matthew Hoppe; Chris Wittyngham on a Wild Weekend; Chris Ivy on Soccer Cards

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Grant has two entertaining interviews in this episode. Matthew Hoppe checks in from Germany (30:33) and shares how he experienced his big-break season with Schalke, which he ended up leading with six league goals. Hoppe, 20, also discusses what he's looking forward to in his first camp with the USMNT this week ahead of the Switzerland friendly. Then Grant speaks to Chris Ivy (55:05), the co-founder and director of sports for Heritage Auctions, about the skyrocketing market in sports collectibles, including soccer cards. A 1979 Diego Maradona Panini sticker sold for a soccer record of almost $560,000 last month, and this month Ivy's house auctioned a 1958 Pelé Alifabolaget "rookie" card for $372,000, a 182% increase over the exact same card and grade sold just five months earlier. To kick off the pod, Grant and Chris Wittyngham break down a wild final weekend of the European domestic leagues, including Chelsea and Liverpool beating out Leicester for Champions League berths, Luis Suárez giving Atlético Madrid the La Liga title, Juventus and Milan beating out Napoli for the top four in Italy, and Lille staving off PSG in Ligue 1. The guys also look ahead to this weekend's men's UEFA Champions League final between Man City and Chelsea and discuss the news on Sunday that U.S. Soccer and Soccer United Marketing will end their 20-year business partnership at the end of 2022. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. La Liga has the best title race in Europe, and it's heading down to the final day. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in La Liga, Ligue 1 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 costs only $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 Food Ball with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's
0:11.4	interview guests are Matthew Hoppy, the shalka 20-year-old who's joining his first US men's
0:17.6	national team camp this week. And Chris Ivy, the co-founder and director of sports for
0:23.5	heritage auctions to talk about the skyrocketing market for soccer collectible cards. We've
0:29.7	had some great guests lately, including Alejandro Irogrigori, Jeff Barger, and Steven Mandis
0:36.0	among others. So check those out. But first, let's talk some soccer with my friend Chris
0:42.0	Whittingham, who you can hear on Univision, Inter Miami Radio, the Dan Lebitard show, and
0:48.8	the Chelsea Mike podcast. Chris, thanks for joining me. Great to see you. How are you?
0:54.1	Have we had a footballing weekend in which every league was decided. I feel like they're
0:57.8	usually staggered. We had promotion playoffs as well. I mean, what a weekend of soccer
1:03.2	action. It's been a lot of fun. And I actually, for the final day of the premier league, went
1:09.0	down the street to my favorite soccer bar, Smithfield here in New York. Some buddies came.
1:15.4	They have a great outdoor seating. We're all vast and just had a blast because there
1:20.3	were fans of different teams. There were even a bunch of fans of men united who had a
1:24.4	meaningless game today, making all this noise, who were also chanting at the Liverpool fans
1:29.8	because they don't like the Liverpool fans who had more on the line today. And I was
1:35.0	actually wearing my 1998 Chelsea Marshal Desi shirt and following the Chelsea game, but
1:42.0	everything else that was going on just truly fun day. And then came home and watched
1:48.5	the last day in France and Italy had fun yesterday watching the finish in Spain. So just
1:55.1	so much stuff going on right now. I mean, when you look at this, you know, these final days
2:02.8	in La Liga, Premier League Serie A league on, you've got big winners, let it come a
2:08.5	dread, Chelsea, Liverpool, Milan, Juventus, Leo, big losers, Real Madrid, Leicester City,
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