This week on OTB Kevin, Grayle and Sam discuss the USWNT's performance to date at the Olympics as well as that of the USMNT at the Gold Cup before welcoming back Jon Champion of ESPN to the podcast to hear about his experience covering EURO 2020, beginning in Bristol and ending on location, his prep work for a short tournament and how he stays neutral when covering England games.
This week on OTB Kevin, Grayle and Sam discuss the USWNT's 3–0 opening Olympic loss to Sweden, the USMNT's 1–0 Gold Cup victory over Canada and some MLS news before welcoming Gianluca Bottoni—Director of Admissions for the Soccer Management Institute in Rome—to the pod to hear about the various programs they offer for American players in Italy as well as his own experience as an Italian playing college soccer in the US.
This week on OTB Kevin, Grayle and Sam discuss the culmination of both the EURO and Copa America and the massive TV numbers for both tournaments, as well as some MLS news before welcoming Soccer America executive editor Mike Woitalla back to the pod to break down the two USMNT Gold Cup performances so far and look ahead to this weekend's showdown with Canada, plus talk USWNT and where things stand heading into the Olympics.
This week on OTB Kevin, Grayle and Sam discuss and preview both the EURO and Copa America finals, as well as the Gold Cup and USMNT before being joined by huge Azzurri fan Frank Isola of ESPN to hear about his love of the game and talk even more EUROs, covering soccer on PTI and Around the Horn, why Serie A hasn't caught on in the U.S., the level of the NCAA game and who he likes in both this weekend's epic finals.
This week on OTB Kevin, Grayle and Sam run through some of the underlying numbers of EURO 2020 in quiz form, discuss FIFA's punishment of Mexico for homophobic chants and Konrad de la Fuente's move to Marseille before welcoming back multi Emmy winner, and former EURO and World Cup studio host for ESPN Bob Ley to talk about this year's tournament coverage, how the international game has changed over the years and why sports broadcasting will—thanks to COVID—never be the same.