Over my eight years covering the Seattle Sounders, there probably hasn’t been a more frustrating player to interview than Clint Dempsey. It’s not that he’s a bad interview, per se, it’s that he rarely provides anything approaching real insight. Dempsey, especially in group settings, tends to have a set of talking points and rarely deviates from his script.
Every now and then, though, we get to a see a different side. One such time is an interview he recently did with Steve Zakuani that first played during pregame of the Houston Dynamo match.