Why Rooney Went Back To DC

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Host Ian Irving is joined by The Athletic's Pablo Maurer, fresh from his interview with the new DC United manager... It's Wayne Rooney! Senior Writer Oli Kay joins in as the panel reflect on his playing days stateside, a 'baptism of fire' at Derby County last season, how Wayne appears to be carefully plotting his route to some of the 'big Premier League jobs' and what Rooney: The Manager - is really like. You'll also hear from Wayne Rooney himself throughout the podcast, as well as from Elias Burke, Derby Correspondent for The Athletic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast, I'm Ian Irving and on today's show we're all
0:19.2	about Wayne Rooney's return to the States as DC United Manager, a club of course,
0:24.6	where he certainly made a lasting impression as a player.
0:27.6	Pinballs to Rooney.
0:29.6	Rudy sees Rooelve.
0:30.6	Oh, it's in the neck!
0:34.0	Help!
0:35.0	It's in the name!
0:37.0	Pablo Ma'a, soccer writer for the athletic is with us.
0:40.0	He had the opportunity to speak one on one with Rooney before his first press
0:44.0	conference so we'll be hearing from the man himself over the course of this
0:47.5	podcast we've got senior writer for the athletic Ollie Kay here too who's followed
0:51.8	Wayne's career intently from bursting onto the scene at Everton.
0:55.6	Plus we'll hear from our Darby correspondent Elias Burke.
1:07.2	Pablo, thank you for doing this. You've had a busy day, so well done for fitting us in. What was Wayne's impacts like landing again in the US?
1:11.2	Yeah, it's interesting.
1:13.0	I mean, I covered his arrival as a player and I think I knew it
1:16.0	in a piece I wrote that, you know, when he arrived at the airport as a player,
1:20.0	there were, you know, probably several hundred fans there a few dozen journalists this go
1:24.8	round it was just me you know it wasn't a public sized thing and I guess I I did a
1:30.4	little kind of TMZ thing on him and did you have a welcome sign of some description right right exactly so now this obviously happened it was a much lower profile process and certainly you know it was a bigger deal when he came here as a player but
1:43.6	honestly given the state of things that DC United right now this is still a
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