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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. Right now is a great time to be

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Speaker 1: a sports fan in New York City. We are celebrating

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Speaker 1: the Knick's advancement to the finals and eagerly awaiting the

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Speaker 1: return of FIFA World Cup to North America for the

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Speaker 1: first time in thirty two years. The twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: tournament kicks off in Mexico City June eleventh. This tournament

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Speaker 1: has historically been the largest sporting event in the world,

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Speaker 1: with enormous fan bases around the world, and while American

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Speaker 1: football has been more dominant with US audiences, the sport

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Speaker 1: is growing in popularity here as streaming and social media

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Speaker 1: have spread access to matches. My grandson, Truman Stewart, is

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Speaker 1: an avid fan and I have asked him to join

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Speaker 1: me today to share some of his insights into the

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Speaker 1: game and to hear what he's excited to watch in

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Speaker 1: the tournament. Welcome to my podcast, Truman, Hi, it's good

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Speaker 1: to be here. Just start off, let's look back at

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Speaker 1: the history of the World Cup. When actually did it start?

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Speaker 2: Well, it started in nineteen thirty, so ninety six years ago.

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Speaker 2: It was held in Uruguay, and there's some a lot

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Speaker 2: of interesting facts about the first one because it was

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Speaker 2: really they didn't really have a qualification system. It was

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Speaker 2: really more of an invitational tournament. And one of the

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Speaker 2: funniest stories that I just saw a few days ago

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Speaker 2: after a long time not remembering it was that Egypt

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Speaker 2: they actually missed the.

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Speaker 3: Boat to the World Cup.

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Speaker 2: So they were supposed to get on a boat with

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Speaker 2: all the other teams to go to the World Cup,

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Speaker 2: and they actually the team missed it, so they just couldn't.

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Speaker 3: They just didn't come.

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Speaker 1: I looked that up and I did find out that

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Speaker 1: they had thirteen teens thirteen. Okay, well that's a ninety

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Speaker 1: three thousand spectators.

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Speaker 2: Yes, for the final, I would assume, well, for in

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Speaker 2: the biggest stadium. The final was won by Uruguay. They

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Speaker 2: were the best team there at the time. Then the

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Speaker 2: tradition began that it would be every four years to

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Speaker 2: maximize attention whenever it happened. So the second winner was Italy,

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Speaker 2: and Italy actually won it twice in a row in

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Speaker 2: nineteen thirty four and thirty eight, and then there was

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Speaker 2: a long pause for this World War two. Of course,

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Speaker 2: it's so horrible, yeah, oh yeah, And then nineteen fifty

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Speaker 2: it came back when Uruguay beat Brazil and that in

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Speaker 2: the final, and then it's just been like that every

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Speaker 2: four years for the last seventy six years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and today through how many teams?

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Speaker 3: Forty eight?

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Speaker 2: So that's that's just a that's a massive jump from

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Speaker 2: what it's been for a while. So it used to

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Speaker 2: be thirty two for the majority of the last I

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Speaker 2: don't know, twenty thirty years, but now it's forty.

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Speaker 1: Eight and how many matches.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and four Okay, I thought it was one

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Speaker 2: hundred and five, but yeah, something like that.

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Speaker 1: And the broadcast audience of how many do you know, billions? Billion,

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Speaker 1: five billion? Can you imagine the majority of the world

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Speaker 1: five billion people watch these matches.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 1: It's an extraordinary exciting time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 1: Wow. And so let's talk about the scale of the

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Speaker 1: sport viewership, social media, following, cultural impact and money. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so start with viewership. We just said it's going to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the World Cup Final, actually I think it gets

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Speaker 2: well five billion is probably the cumulative viewership. So I

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Speaker 2: think the World Cup Final itself gets like one point

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Speaker 2: five billion on legal streams.

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Speaker 3: So you can actually see those figures. They don't. They

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Speaker 2: Obviously a lot of people watch them in groups, illegal

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Speaker 2: streaming things like that. If I had to estimate, it

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Speaker 2: the final. And then in total it's you know, in

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Speaker 2: countries South America, Asia, Europe, it just the country shuts

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Speaker 3: It's incredible.

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Speaker 1: And social media big show.

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Speaker 2: So the two most followed people on Instagram Messi and Ronaldo.

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Speaker 1: So Ronaldo has how many followers? Takes hundred something millions

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Speaker 1: and seventy million?

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I mean Tom Brady has like fifteen point four million,

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Speaker 3: Only point five percent of the way there.

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Speaker 1: And World Cup has five billions. We just said five

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Speaker 1: billion viewers globally. Only the Paris Simmer Olympics has come

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, Super Bowl, America's favorite sport is football. They

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Speaker 2: Doesn't It's not really comparable, It's not even close.

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Speaker 1: And football football soccer generates how much a year.

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Speaker 3: An incomparable number.

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Speaker 1: It's fifty to sixty billion. Crazy, So I did tiny

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Speaker 1: soccer player as well as a student of soccer, and

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Speaker 1: he has traveled to England to attend camp at Liverpool twice, right, yeah, twice.

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Speaker 1: And then he is also with me invested in a

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Speaker 1: Liverpool game. What an amazing game that was, and Liverpool won.

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Speaker 1: I was so happy for you that they won, because

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Speaker 1: that's your team. Is it still your team?

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Speaker 3: You can't change teams?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, you can't. That's what made you go to

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Speaker 2: I was like six, I mean five, so I don't

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Speaker 2: really remember. I think it was just like I just

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Speaker 2: it was one of the first games I ever watched.

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Speaker 2: I guess they were playing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, did you focus on a player or

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Speaker 2: eight nine years, nine years. Yeah, he left Liverpool this year,

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Speaker 2: but he was probably he might be one of the

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Speaker 2: biggest reasons why I got into soccer and started supporting Liverpool.

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Speaker 2: He's just like, I don't know, I just he was

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Speaker 1: You developed a fan to dome. For the expansion of

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Speaker 1: the World Cup to forty eight teams, this is a

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Speaker 1: long question, all right. I got that increased from thirty

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Speaker 1: two and it means more games between lower ranked trees.

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Speaker 1: Will this impact how many people will go to games

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Speaker 1: in person on viewers on TV? Is it possible, for example,

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Speaker 1: Will anyone pay close attention to those games? Do you think?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think, really fans of the game that

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Speaker 2: least ninety percent ful for every game the entire tournament.

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Speaker 2: TV viewership, Yeah, I mean it's going to be lower

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Speaker 2: Uzbekistan has never played in the.

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Speaker 1: They must be so exciting and it's.

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Speaker 2: Just incredibly you know, the scenes for them must just

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Speaker 2: for about fifty years when they were formerly known as

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Speaker 2: Zai Yir, so that just gives you like an example

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Speaker 2: of how far it's been for them. So even just

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Speaker 2: for that game, there's a multitude of storylines that you

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Speaker 2: that can progress in three rounds, so if one of

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Speaker 2: if it's not a tie, that one of them could

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Speaker 1: With more games being played, offensive and defensive stats like

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Speaker 1: goals and clean sheets are going to be more common

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Speaker 1: with that records including most goals in a single World Cup.

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Speaker 1: This is a funny statistic which has stood since nineteen

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Speaker 1: fifty eight at thirteen goals.

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Speaker 3: By one player.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, who's that.

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Speaker 2: His name was? I don't know how to pronounce it

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Speaker 2: and then Fontaine Fontaine. Well, I've researching and stuff like

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Speaker 2: this just for fun. But he had like eight goals

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Speaker 2: that record's going to be broken, just because thirteen goals

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Speaker 2: is just astronomical, Like it would take like the maximum games,

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Speaker 2: they're gonna become much more difficult as the tournament goes on.

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Speaker 2: So it would basically have to be a perfect storm

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Speaker 1: Does this make the World Cup more or less watchable?

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Speaker 2: I think I'm in the minority, but I find it

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Speaker 2: to make the World Cup much more watchable because people

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Speaker 2: are saying, like in just discourse, who's gonna want to

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Speaker 2: watch Kirosau play Germany?

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 3: I don't care like what team it.

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Speaker 1: Is, it's sue soccer fans want to watch.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's more about what the neutrals like. People that

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Speaker 2: don't like, you know, they don't really know a lot

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Speaker 2: to watch. But I would encourage everyone to watch, and

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Speaker 2: I think around the world it's the same, Like, the

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Speaker 2: it won't make it less watchable.

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Speaker 1: Well, for the first time, soccer has taken over baseball's

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Speaker 1: position as third most watched more in America, so they're

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Speaker 1: now third soccer versus football. Then it's basketball, then it's soccer,

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Speaker 1: then it's baseball. How do you think the baseball players feel.

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Speaker 2: I could go off on a whole tangent about bit

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Speaker 2: because I'm I'm also a baseball fan and a basketball fan.

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Speaker 2: Baseball is actually starting to experience their resurgons, just like

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Speaker 2: soccer is growing, so I think they might actually both

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Speaker 1: What terms are important for a novice spectator like me.

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Speaker 3: Okay to know?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean there's goal, of course, So goal is

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Speaker 2: when you know, you score it into the big rectangular

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Speaker 2: thing at the end of the field. So there are

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Speaker 2: things called free kicks. So let's say you do something

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Speaker 2: large majority of the field.

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Speaker 3: You're not really close to a goal.

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Speaker 2: And let's say you kick someone when they don't have

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Speaker 2: the when like they don't really get the ball you're

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Speaker 2: trying to kick the ball away from somebody, but you

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Speaker 2: hit them instead of the ball. That's a foul, which is,

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Speaker 2: you know, because it's illegal, you can't do it. And

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Speaker 2: then there's free kicks, which is what the other team

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Speaker 1: Their players, as a person who gets kicked get a kick.

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Speaker 2: So it's not exactly like a free throw in like

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Speaker 2: basketball is just a closer example than any of the

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Speaker 2: other sports, but it's not exactly like a free throw

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Speaker 2: because it's you score much less often. They're from wherever

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Speaker 2: the foul occurred. Then there's penalties, So penalties they happen

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Speaker 3: As you can see Colombia.

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Speaker 1: Speak beautiful Colombian Spanish along with them, don't you?

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Speaker 1: Oh, he got his Miami tickets for Colombia playing Portugal. Portugal,

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Speaker 2: I think that's actually a great game personally, Colombian Portugal

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck, good luck. And Truman asked for seats

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Speaker 1: So you're going to see Egypt play New Zealand in Vancouver, Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yes, why are you so interested to see Egypt?

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Speaker 2: I only saw him play live once, but I want

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Speaker 2: That's a side note.

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Speaker 1: That's a personal great And Argentina won in twenty twenty two. Yes,

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Speaker 1: The the past four years, past four years or even further.

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Speaker 3: It's it's complicate, it's a really weird ranking system.

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Speaker 1: So which is your first match that you're going to

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Speaker 3: Game, yes, then Colombia Portugal.

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Speaker 1: Then Colombia Portugal in Miami, and then the fun the final.

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Speaker 2: He plays for Real Madrid in club and then in

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Speaker 1: So once they're on their club team, Yeah, which is

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Speaker 1: whoever country's team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's say the best player from anywhere he

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Speaker 2: so they're both trying to sort of pry him away

443
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,600
Speaker 2: from the other. He ended up going with Germany despite

444
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,359
Speaker 2: playing for England in the youth leagues.

445
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so they keep their nationality most of the time.

446
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 1: They keep it. That's that's good. I mean, we always

447
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 1: have to anticipate some crazy upsets. Do you see any

448
00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 1: in the in the future, Well.

449
00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,480
Speaker 2: I see a couple teams that really look like dark horses.

450
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,200
Speaker 2: To me, Ecuador is really they're really I think a

451
00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 2: lot of people underestimate them and not a lot of

452
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,720
Speaker 2: people know how great they are. They might beat Germany

453
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Speaker 2: in the group stage because they're in the same group

454
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,159
Speaker 2: as Germany. I think that might be something that could happen.

455
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 2: I think Columbia could do well. Biased again, but I

456
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 2: think it really could happen. And then maybe in the

457
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,280
Speaker 2: later like that are good enough to even win it all.

458
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 2: We might see like Morocco they did really well four

459
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 2: years ago.

460
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 3: They might do it again.

461
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 2: Things like, I think teams like that are going to

462
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 2: be your best bet basically if you weren't really want

463
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 2: to see an upset, like root for a team from

464
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,119
Speaker 2: Asia or Africa, because no team outside of Europe or

465
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 2: South America has ever won ever one. So yeah, Asia, Africa,

466
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 2: North America and Australia.

467
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 1: So never World Cup.

468
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

469
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Speaker 1: The US team's lineup was just announced. Were there any

470
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 1: surprises there? Do you think?

471
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Speaker 2: The surprise to me is that is their coach more

472
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 2: than anything. So their coach is Mauricio Pochettino. So he's

473
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 2: a pretty famous coach. You know. He did really well

474
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 2: with Tottenham, a club team, like about five or six

475
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,840
Speaker 2: years now. Then he decided to Yeah, he decided to

476
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 2: sign for the US to be their manager because they

477
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 2: were probably offering a lot of money and less work

478
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 2: because the national teams don't really meet. But yeah, he

479
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 2: hasn't done well for them, to be honest. They lost

480
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Speaker 2: to Panama in a semi final of a like confederation thing.

481
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Speaker 2: I don't think the fact that he's still there with

482
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Speaker 2: them is a bit shaky.

483
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Tim Reem has just been named the us

484
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Speaker 1: a captain. Yeah, he is older thirty eight and many

485
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: players will he be able to keep up with the

486
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Speaker 1: world class attacking teams and be a great leader.

487
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Speaker 2: I think being a captain is a lot more about

488
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Speaker 2: leadership ability, and I think maturity is also a big

489
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,160
Speaker 2: part of that. So that's why you're seeing a very

490
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Speaker 2: senior player, even though he might not necessarily play all

491
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Speaker 2: the games or play ninety minutes every game that he does.

492
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Speaker 2: But I think the leadership that he brings in the

493
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 2: locker room and when he is on the field is

494
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Speaker 2: going to be the most important thing about him, and

495
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Speaker 2: I think he could still deliver like a serviceable performance

496
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Speaker 2: for them. He might not be incredible, but I don't

497
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Speaker 2: think he's going to be a liability necessarily.

498
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Speaker 1: What is it about soccer that attracts young people like

499
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: you to the sport? Does it use the most energy

500
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 1: of any sport? Or do you run them most.

501
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 2: In I mean, I would have to guess. I mean

502
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 2: you run more in soccer than you do like basketball, baseball, football.

503
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 2: I think it might be a lot continuous action kind

504
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: of drives might draw people in because football and you

505
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 2: know all the other American sports you see commercials every

506
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 2: ten seconds, even though I still watch them. I think

507
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 2: soccer is great because it's just continuous. It's like bam bamm,

508
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 2: there's action all the time. There's only one break and

509
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 2: it's halftime. It's just a very fun sport. They call

510
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 2: it the beautiful game for a reason. It's the best one.

511
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: The US will not have a typical home field advantage

512
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: because we are such a diverse country and many Americans

513
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Speaker 1: will root for their home country instead of for the USA.

514
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: Some USA home games may even feel like road games.

515
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Speaker 1: What do you think of this? Is it a problem?

516
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 2: Well, it's not necessarily a problem because the US are

517
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 2: still going to have the US fans are just not

518
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,360
Speaker 2: great in terms of you.

519
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: Know, as it's not important enough.

520
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 2: They don't generate yet, we don't generate enough atmosphere because

521
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 2: it's not our tradition. Even in American sports, you don't

522
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,360
Speaker 2: really hear like chants or stuff like that. But other

523
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 2: countries have that, they have that a larger passion for

524
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 2: the sport.

525
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: Remember when they were playing the World Cup in Africa,

526
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: South Africa, Yeah, remember and the chanting it just drove me.

527
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 2: Well that was the that was because they had the

528
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 2: vuvuzela's like the blow, the sound that the thing that

529
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 2: sounds like these and although I didn't think they were

530
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 2: that bad, I don't know, well, I wasn't alive. I

531
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 2: just like mean, like in the highlights and just in Gedi,

532
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 2: I don't.

533
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Speaker 1: Think it was so noisy Truman, it was crazy. What

534
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Speaker 1: do you want to see in the final round? Who

535
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: do you want to see?

536
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 2: I want to see Columbia because I'm a fan, or

537
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 2: just in terms of quality of game, I'd probably want

538
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 2: to see France because they have just an unbelievable They're

539
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 2: attack The amount of attackers they have is just is

540
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 2: it's scary. And Germany would be a pretty cool watch.

541
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 2: I like a lot of German players. I think they

542
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 2: have really creative players. Brazil because of Neymar to see

543
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 2: like one last stand for him.

544
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 3: The same thing with Year.

545
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 2: This is how old is He's in his thirties. He's

546
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 2: honestly earlier than a lot of guys retire. He's in

547
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,679
Speaker 2: his early to mid thirties, but he's been He's had

548
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 2: so many injuries that he's probably just gonna call it.

549
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 2: Uh Messi and Ronaldo that's obviously their final World Cups.

550
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 2: This time, it really feels like it will be Argentine

551
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 2: and Portugal then would be kind of cool to see.

552
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: So your June and July are stuffed stuffed with games. Yeah,

553
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: so back to a little bit more, How do you

554
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: think the World Cup changes the game for players compared

555
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: to club soccer?

556
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 2: The World Cup it's a whole new ballgame compared to clubs,

557
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 2: so you might have a lot more or a lot

558
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 2: less chemistry, depending on you know, what national team it is.

559
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: For example, the clubs, you're you're with your team eight

560
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,360
Speaker 2: months out of the year, so you have a lot

561
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 2: more recognition of your players and how they play. And

562
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 2: the national team all they get is a couple of

563
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 2: breaks throughout the international breaks is what they're called, throughout

564
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 2: the season. So it's a lot harder to maybe build

565
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 2: chemistry with your team unless there are special sort of

566
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: circumstances where you know, the smaller countries, a lot of

567
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 2: the players just play in the league of that country,

568
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 2: so they have more chemistry and that might lead to

569
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 2: upsets weird.

570
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: Do the teams stay when they're visiting.

571
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 2: That's well, a lot of them stay at universities or

572
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 2: professional team complexes. So Brazil, I know, we're training where

573
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 2: the New York Red Bulls train in New Jersey. What

574
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 2: I read is that sometimes they try to mimic the

575
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 2: climate of their country to try and get the players

576
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 2: acclimated and ready, and then for each game, they fly

577
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 2: out to wherever they're playing, and then they come back

578
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 2: to the home base and then they train and then

579
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 2: they go to the next game.

580
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: And how much time games.

581
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 2: It mostly it's about for the group stages. I think

582
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 2: it's about four or five days between games, because I know,

583
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 2: just using Colombia as a basis, because I've been studying

584
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,959
Speaker 2: their games. Their first game is on June seventeenth and

585
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 2: it ends. Their third group stage game is on the

586
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 2: twenty seventh, so that's five days.

587
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: Are you going to the twenty seventh one? Yeah?

588
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 2: And then the knockouts I think they're a little bit

589
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 2: more spread out towards the end, so you get maybe

590
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: five or six days between the semi finals and final,

591
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: just to get the players rested for the biggest game.

592
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: So who is the next generation of soccer stars?

593
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 2: Okay, well, Leamin jamal Is, you know, he's the big one.

594
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 2: I think everybody kind of knows at this point he's

595
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 2: He's going to be nineteen in a couple of weeks,

596
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 2: but he's already a top three best player in the

597
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 2: world according to most people, including me. And there's guys

598
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: on France. Michael Elise is really great. He just had

599
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 2: a sort of a breakout season. There's guys Germany have

600
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 2: Jamal Musciala and Florian Viertz. They're both in their early twenties.

601
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 2: So I think there's just a lot of younger generation

602
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 2: coming to replace the mess season Ronaldo's that. I think

603
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 2: everybody's kind of excited to see.

604
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: But I know I am at least now, who's going

605
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: to be the commentator on World Cup?

606
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 2: Well, I'm actually not sure. Well, Peter Drury is kind

607
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 2: of the most famous commentator in the world.

608
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: He's the best in soccer.

609
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they all kind of have because there's different

610
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 2: stations that you are different, like streaming services and stuff.

611
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: But Peter Drury is definitely gonna do a lot of games.

612
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 2: Maybe Martin Tyler is another big one, but I think

613
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 2: he might have retired.

614
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 3: I'm entirely sure.

615
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: Which team do you think viewers are underrating right now?

616
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,959
Speaker 2: Earlier I said Ecuador. I'm kind of gonna stand by that.

617
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: I think Ecuador are a really great team. They have

618
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 2: some great defenders in midfielders. I would expect them to

619
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 2: get a little bit farther than most people expect, and

620
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 2: a lot of US you know, you see the US,

621
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 2: a lot of US fans that sort of research, and

622
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 2: then you see their group and they have Paraguay, Australia

623
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: and Turkey, which you think was a pretty easy group.

624
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't be so sure because I think Turkey

625
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 2: are better than the US, and I think Paraguay can

626
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 2: really do can they can have a couple upsets. I

627
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 2: think people are underrating them. Australia they're kind of a

628
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 2: harder team to gauge in my opinion because they don't

629
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 2: have as much star Like.

630
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: How many games of Australia have you seen?

631
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: I've seen their World Cup games in twenty eighteen, and

632
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,479
Speaker 2: then I sometimes I watch like their qualifier, like if

633
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 2: it's a qualifier game between like for the World Cup

634
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 2: between Australia and uh like South Korea.

635
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: Or how many hours a week do you watch soccer?

636
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 3: Well, it depends.

637
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 2: The seasons are just like we're in little break between

638
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 2: clubs and the World Cup, so right now none but

639
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 2: normally I pretty much my weekend is spent watching sports,

640
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: and soccer is the biggest.

641
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: Part of that. So you also play, And yeah, how

642
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: many hours a week you play soccer.

643
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 3: For my team? Probably about five or six.

644
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 2: And then because we meet three days a week and

645
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 2: then we have games, and then I play on my

646
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 2: own with my friends, you know, just in the house.

647
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 2: I just kick a little ball, a mini ball around.

648
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: It's just it's like it's a really big thing for me.

649
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: It sure is. I went into where he does his homework.

650
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: He has a soccer game on the big screen. He

651
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: has a bench in front of the couch, he has

652
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: a computer, he has his his phone own, he has

653
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: his and he's there doing and his books and he's

654
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: doing his homework while he's watching matches. That's switching from

655
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: place to place, communicating with some of his friends. Yeah,

656
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: it's like, you're you're a good multitasker.

657
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 3: I think I am.

658
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

659
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I get good grades.

660
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: And he does. He's a can I say you're a

661
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: straight A student?

662
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Speaker 2: He is a.

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Speaker 1: Straight A student and you're doing fantastically. Thanks for a

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Speaker 1: fourteen year old, I think amazing. I'm very proud of you. True.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so which managers heading into twenty twenty six are

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Speaker 1: the most interesting tactically or psychologice.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's kind of like there's a big one. So, like,

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Speaker 2: Brazil just appointed Carlo Ancelotti as their manager, and you

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Speaker 2: know by the name, you already know he's not He's Italian,

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Speaker 2: so he is arguably the most successful manager ever. He

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Speaker 2: won as a manager five Champions League titles, which is

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Speaker 2: like the club version of the World Cup, which it

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Speaker 2: does happen annually, but it's still an incredible feat to

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Speaker 2: win five. And then he's never coached a national team

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Speaker 2: and he's coaching Brazil, So I think it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a pretty It's going to be pretty cool to

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Speaker 2: see how it shakes down with like a big manager

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Speaker 2: and a big national team.

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Speaker 1: So by the time the World Cup has ended, will

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Speaker 1: Mauricio Putchattino's time as coach of the US M and

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Speaker 1: T be over for.

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Speaker 2: The sake of the US and national team. Then yeah,

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Speaker 2: hopefully he's not. I don't think he fits the system

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Speaker 2: unless they prove me wrong during the World Cup. I

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Speaker 2: don't think he's going to be coached much longer. He

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Speaker 2: shouldn't be, so, I, you know, boring a miracle.

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Speaker 1: I could go on your very very knowledgeable and very

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Speaker 1: astute and your recall for facts is incredible. Truman is

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Speaker 1: sitting here. He has no notes.

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Speaker 3: I don't have notes.

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Speaker 1: No, he has no notes. They're all in his head.

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Speaker 1: Pretty fantastic. Well, this is a phenomenal conversation. Truman and

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Speaker 1: I are lucky enough to be going to the finals together.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't I just I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see how your premonition and your projections work out

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Speaker 1: for the team. For our listeners, I hope you've learned

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Speaker 1: something about the exciting twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup.

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Speaker 1: What does FIFA stand for.

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Speaker 2: It's French word for word. It's like Federation International Football Associated.

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Speaker 3: I don't really association something like that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's okay and Truman.

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Speaker 2: You can watch matches on Fox Sports and FS one,

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Speaker 2: or you can stream them on Peacock, Bubo, YouTube TV

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Speaker 2: and Sling TV. Telemundo and Universo are broadcasting the.

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Speaker 3: Games in Spanish.

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Speaker 1: Gracias there we are Thank you, Thank you, listeners. I

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Speaker 1: hope that we have illuminated you a little bit and

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Speaker 1: that you know a little bit more about the World Cup.

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Speaker 1: It's a very exciting time, not only for America but

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Speaker 1: for the world, and I hope it brings some great

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Speaker 1: memories for all of us. Thank you, Truman, thank you

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Speaker 1: come again.

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Speaker 3: So all right, I will