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Sports Writer Grant Wahl on the Future of Women's Soccer

Grant Wahl discusses women's soccer with Laurent Dubois during an event at the Forum for Scholars and Publics

Grant Wahl has covered soccer for nearly two decades for Sports Illustrated and is also now working for the Fox television network, the new rights holder for the men’s and women’s World Cups.

He came to Duke’s Forum for Scholars and Publics Tuesday for a wide-ranging conversation on, among other things, media coverage, soccer coaching, the role of a women’s domestic soccer league in the United States, and the way women’s soccer took hold in the United States during World Cups in 1999 and 2011.

 Here is a sampling of the Twitter chatter that accompanied Wahl's talk: