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Speaker 1: Before we begin, a reminder to please rate and review

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Speaker 1: our show that helps new listeners discover us and grow

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Speaker 1: the program. On this episode of Sports Illustrated Weekly, World

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Speaker 1: Cup will have an expanded field hosted by three countries, Canada,

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Speaker 1: as well as the final qualifiers for the upcoming World

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Speaker 1: Cup later this year in Qatar. We're joined by one

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Speaker 1: of our favorites, Luis miguel at your Garai from CBS

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Speaker 1: Sports and the Keglazzo podcast. I'm your host, John Gonzalez

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Speaker 1: from Sports Illustrated and I Heart Radio. This is Sports

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Speaker 1: Illustrated Weekly. Luis mcguel at your Garai, Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated Weekly. All right, it's an absolute pleasure John,

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Speaker 1: It's always good to come back to s I. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're a regular. We had such a great time last

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Speaker 1: time you're on. We wanted to discuss with you some

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Speaker 1: of the final teams that got into this year's What Couple,

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Speaker 1: which you will do in a second. But first World

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Speaker 1: Cup will be in North America. It's jointly hosted by Canada,

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Speaker 1: the US and Mexico. The host cities were recently announced

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Speaker 1: that's what we want to get into before we get

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Speaker 1: into like which cities made the Cup which didn't. The

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Speaker 1: field for Luis will expand from the current thirty two

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Speaker 1: to forty eight. Do we like that? I like it?

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Speaker 1: I like it at all, because I think that one

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Speaker 1: thing to remember if you are, you know, even if

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Speaker 1: a very long time John, and even more so if

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Speaker 1: not as strong as perhaps other Western nations, or so

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Speaker 1: be it to me, this is the celebration of the game.

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Speaker 1: This is meant to be the world's game, the game

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Speaker 1: that celebrates everything that's great about multiculturalism, and of course,

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Speaker 1: the good nature of multiculturalism. They're not doing this out

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Speaker 1: of the goodness of their heart. No, I think Jihanny

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Speaker 1: Specifically if you want to even focus on you know,

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Speaker 1: that you get everything with me, John, you get everything

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. I wish that that they had skipped Boston.

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