USMNT World Cup Squad Release Reaction + Hal Phillips

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Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Grant is live from Brooklyn where he reacts to the release of the United States Men's National Team's 26 man squad for the World Cup with Chris Wittyngham. How did Zack Steffen miss the team entirely? Who were the surprise inclusions? How did Haji Wright get the final spot at striker? We discuss that and much more. Plus, Hal Phillips joins to discuss his book about the USMNT in the 80s and 90s called Generation Zero: Founding Fathers, Hidden Histories & the Making of Soccer in America. Here is the full US Squad: GOALKEEPERS (3): Ethan Horvath - Luton Town, Sean Johnson - New York City FC, Matt Turner -Arsenal DEFENDERS (9): Aaron Long - New York Red Bulls, Antonee "Jedi" Robinson - Fulham, Cameron Carter-Vickers - Celtic, DeAndre Yedlin - Inter Miami CF, Joe Scally - Borussia Mönchengladbach, Walker Zimmerman - Nashville SC, Sergiño Dest - AC Milan, Shaq Moore - Nashville SC, Tim Ream - Fulham MIDFIELDERS (7): Brenden Aaronson - Leeds United, Cristian Roldan - Seattle Sounders FC, Kellyn Acosta - LAFC, Luca de la Torre - Celta de Vigo, Tyler Adams - Leeds United, Weston McKennie - Juventus, Yunus Musah - Valencia FORWARDS (7): Christian Pulisic – Chelsea, Haji Wright - Antalyaspor, Jesús Ferreira - FC Dallas, Jordan Morris - Seattle Sounders FC, Tim Weah – Lille, Josh Sargent - Norwich City, Gio Reyna - Borussia Dortmund

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.5	Our interview guest today is how Phillips to speak about his new book, Generation Zero
0:16.6	about the 80s and 90s U.S. men's national team.
0:21.0	Before we get going, you can subscribe to my writing site at grantwall.com.
0:25.1	We are 11 days away from World Cup 2022.
0:29.0	Grant Wall.com, I'll be covering the whole tournament from Qatar, but let's bring in Chris
0:33.8	Whittingham. How are you, my friend?
0:35.5	U.S. MNT Squad release day. Here we go. I mean, it's a bummer that it happens on the same day
0:42.6	that Saudi Amane was ruled out for the World Cup for Senegal and it just sort of, you know,
0:47.4	can we wrap the 26 players that were named for the U.S. today and bubble wrap for the weekends
0:52.7	that there's no way more injury issues. I just hate when these players get ruled out.
0:56.7	I hate the league cup with a passion, not just the heat of a thousand sons, but I hated
1:02.7	the league cup even more today because Christian policy played in the league cup, and it was like,
1:08.7	all I could think of that was, dude, just don't get hurt.
1:11.1	I guess the big opponent as well, they were playing men's city, the game that they eventually lost.
1:16.6	But he is on this roster and we're going to go through it position by position here.
1:24.3	If you get some ambient noise listeners, it's because I am literally at the location where the
1:29.2	draw was announced in Brooklyn, New York City at Brooklyn Steel, which is normally a concert venue.
1:34.7	I think I'm in one of the back rooms where like, if you're a band playing, one of the band members
1:41.4	goes. Do you have like a bowl of M&Ms with the green ones taken out?
1:47.0	I forgot to get my request in. You're writers?
1:49.8	Your demands are not met. I cannot work under these conditions.
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