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Speaker 1: The volume. Today's World Cup draw reaction is presented by Haleion,

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Speaker 1: celebrating all the moments of support that make the big

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Speaker 1: goals possible, because every goal starts with an assist. In

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Speaker 1: the history of the United States men's national team, the

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Speaker 1: man you're looking at has the most goals and most

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Speaker 1: assists in the history of our country. And we have

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Speaker 1: ourselves a World Cup group f is Netherlands, who of

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Speaker 1: course knocked us out, dominating performer Japan, Tunisia and a

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Speaker 1: European playoff winner which could be Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, Albania.

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Speaker 1: Give me your thoughts on Netherlands going into this. They

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Speaker 1: were an old World Cup team, an experienced team last

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Speaker 1: World Cup, which tells me they're probably in a bit

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Speaker 1: of a transition stage.

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Speaker 2: A little bit, but they have some young stars. This

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Speaker 2: is a team that's sneaky that no one's talking about.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Colin they can. I don't think they

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Speaker 2: can win it, but they certainly have the ability to.

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Speaker 2: They have the quality. They have a still probably the

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Speaker 2: best center back and best defender in the world and

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Speaker 2: Virgil Van Dejk. They have Javi Simons, who's a really

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Speaker 2: talented attacking midfielder, and then they just have good quality

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Speaker 2: all over the field. But they're a little bit one

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Speaker 2: of these teams that sort of if things go poorly,

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Speaker 2: it can go poorly and unraveled really really fast. And

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Speaker 2: France is a bit like that too, just off the

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Speaker 2: field and emotionally and with the press and the pressure,

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Speaker 2: it can go bad pretty fast. But they have a

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Speaker 2: pretty talented team. They have a relatively easy group I think,

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Speaker 2: although Japan, Japan are really hard to play against. And

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Speaker 2: then depending who gets in from maybe if it's Poland,

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Speaker 2: that's a tricky matchup. But Netherlands are a much better team.

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Speaker 1: Group G is Belgium, Egypt, of course, Mosla, Belgium, Egypt, Iran,

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Speaker 1: New Zealand. Belgium does everything right, from their chocolates to

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Speaker 1: their soccer to their beer everything, you know, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I've always seen Brazil as sort of an emotional, sometimes temperamental,

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Speaker 1: highly skilled country. Argentina falls a little bit into that,

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Speaker 1: but Brazil feels like their own ecosystem. And then I

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Speaker 1: when I think about Germany. It's kind of powerful, tactical,

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Speaker 1: robotic at times at times, yeah, right, almost like the

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Speaker 1: German personality. No it is.

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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, every culture has the same

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Speaker 2: Brazil with the flair and you know.

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Speaker 1: Right, and so can Egypt beat Belgium?

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Speaker 2: No, they won't. They won't beat Belgium. Mosala is a

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Speaker 2: global superstar, he really is. He's right at the end

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Speaker 2: of his his career. Last year was really a terrific

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Speaker 2: year for him for club and country. But he's right

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Speaker 2: at the end. But they just don't have enough talent

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Speaker 2: around them. But I expect, I fully expect that Egypt qualify,

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Speaker 2: but I don't think they win this group.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so group age is fascinating because you have Spain

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Speaker 1: favored to win it. They won the euro last summer

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Speaker 1: and they have an eighteen year old star. I think

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Speaker 1: sixty Minutes just did a piece on Jamal who at eighteen,

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Speaker 1: by even our team standards, is I mean, the idea

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Speaker 1: of going to a World Cup at eighteen. It's just

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Speaker 1: let me ask you, how talented is he in your life?

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Speaker 1: Where does he where? In Bope's a young Ronaldo Messi?

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Speaker 1: Where does he rank?

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Speaker 2: A little bit different in where he plays, but calling

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Speaker 2: it eighteen. To play in a World Cup at eighteen

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Speaker 2: is a remarkable feat. He might be the best player

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Speaker 2: in the tournament at eighteen. Think about that. He might

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Speaker 2: be between Mbope Messi's now at the end. So you

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Speaker 2: and Messi's going to do messy things because he's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Mbope and Jamal I think he would say would be

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Speaker 2: the favorites to win the Golden Ball, which would be

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Speaker 2: the best player and he what he has brought to

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Speaker 2: Spain is Spain historically over the last two decades, has

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Speaker 2: been a team that loves to have the ball, loves

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Speaker 2: to have possession, kind of death by a thousand cuts.

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Speaker 2: What he's done now is he's made them much more.

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Speaker 2: Oh my life just went on, much more vertical, much

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Speaker 2: more dynamic, much more direct. And he can get the

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Speaker 2: ball and make a play by himself. And it used

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Speaker 2: to be pass past pass past pass, walking into the goal.

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Speaker 2: Now they can give it to him, run by people, bang,

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Speaker 2: score a goal.

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Speaker 1: Okay, group I frant Senegal Norway here we go. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is all time stuff. So you're talking to Bope,

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Speaker 1: is it? Halland h A A l Holland. This this,

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Speaker 1: this could be the most spectacular group in If you're

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Speaker 1: a not a soccer devote but you love excitement, goals, highlights,

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Speaker 1: this is your YouTube group. This is a very exciting group.

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Speaker 1: The France, the French history is very interesting so and

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Speaker 1: again very willing to embrace the star, high expectations in

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Speaker 1: a way a little bit of a Yankee feel, where

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Speaker 1: very harsh, very demanding, embraces the star. How does this

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Speaker 1: French team compare to others who have won the Cup?

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Speaker 2: I mean as good talent wise they are, the problem

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Speaker 2: is that their system, why well, they just they develop high, high,

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Speaker 2: high quality players and athletes. And you have to remember

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Speaker 2: many many French have African descent, right, so also athletically

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Speaker 2: there are some just elite, elite athletes in this French

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Speaker 2: team and they grow up in the French system and

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Speaker 2: they produce top, top, top class players. The challenge with

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Speaker 2: France always is it's a bit of sink or swim

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Speaker 2: with them. So we saw the swim four years ago

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Speaker 2: in Katar where they get to the final and have

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Speaker 2: really an opportunity to win the World Cup. But we've

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Speaker 2: also seen this team fall apart at times in a

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Speaker 2: World Cup. Off the field, they'll have issues and if

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Speaker 2: one result doesn't go their way, or they lose to Senegal,

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Speaker 2: or they tie Senegal, or maybe Norway sneaks by and

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Speaker 2: wins a game, you'll see this whole thing unravel and

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Speaker 2: it's fun to watch, it's entertaining to watch. But if

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Speaker 2: they get it going right, you know Usman, Dambele and Bape.

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Speaker 2: The quality of talent they have on this team is

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Speaker 2: probably second to none. Maybe only Spain is more talented

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Speaker 2: through and through.

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