Sounding Off on Soccer Podcast: Danny Griffin reflects on Riverhounds’ first-ever League Title winning campaign

In what was our first-ever in-person, on location edition of Sounding Off on Soccer Podcast, at Shiloh Plate & Pour (on Mt. Washington), one of the pillars of the Riverhounds 2025 championship squad, the team’s captain and midfielder, Danny Griffin wearing his Riverhounds USL Championship hat which he said he may not take off for the entirity of the off season, joined John Krysinsky to share his thoughts in his first extended interview session a few weeks after the team delivered the franchise’s first-ever League Title to Pittsburgh.

If there was one overriding theme in this conversation with Griffin, it was about how the team banded together and remained a close-knit group regardless of what adversity they faced, eventually finding a way to pull off an improbable run through the playoffs without allowing a goal and bringing home Pittsburgh’s first-ever professional soccer Championship in the modern era.

“In all my years here, we’ve always had a close-knit locker room and the guys demanding more from each other,” Griffin shared.

“Guys would get on each other. Get after each other about what we needed to do. There’s struggles in every season, but in those little moments, there are guys that really stepped up and had each other’s back.  That went a long way for everyone.”

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