World Cup Opener Reaction, USA-Wales Preview + Adam Elder

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Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Grant and Chris Wittyngham discuss Ecuador's opening night win over Qatar to open the World Cup, the bizarre scenes in and around the curtain raiser, and look ahead to the opening game for the USMNT against Wales tomorrow afternoon. Then, Grant talks to Adam Elder, author of the book "New Kids in the World Cup" on the 1990 US team that qualified for their first World Cup in 40 years.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:10.1	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.4	Our interview guest today is Adam Elder, author of the book New Kids in the World Cup
0:17.2	about the U.S. team from 1990.
0:20.0	Before we get going, subscribe to my writing site at grantwall.com.
0:23.5	I am in Qatar doing daily coverage of World Cup 2022.
0:27.8	That's grantwall.com.
0:29.6	Let's bring in Chris, waiting him.
0:30.9	How are you, my friend?
0:32.0	Doing all right, sir, enjoying the first day of the World Cup.
0:35.4	We're often running, and now the nerves begin to set in is the big one.
0:40.0	The big one kicks off tomorrow or today whenever you're listening to this.
0:44.8	USA Wales will be kicking off Monday at 2 p.m. Eastern 10 p.m. local here in Qatar.
0:52.0	That's a late kickoff, but the U.S. team has been adjusting to that the last couple of days
0:57.1	with night sessions.
1:00.0	That's interesting.
1:01.0	They're doing another one tonight.
1:03.6	It gets cooler at night here.
1:04.8	It's actually pretty comfortable in the 70s tonight.
1:09.8	We'll talk about the U.S. news and Tyler Adams being named Captain for the World Cup.
1:15.2	A lot of good stuff coming out of the press conference, Greg Berholtz, your entire Adams
1:18.7	today.
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