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Speaker 1: for the biggest World Cup ever, always the biggest show
Speaker 1: on Earth with thirty two countries now forty eight countries,
Speaker 1: which means is going to go from thirty two to
Speaker 1: thirty nine days of football, not soccer where you're not
Speaker 1: American football action.
Speaker 2: And not the football rules.
Speaker 1: Damn it, you're right always there with the logit rio
Speaker 1: is quite tiring. Sometimes just go with the nonsense, Just
Speaker 1: go with the flow of the nonsense that speeze out
Speaker 1: of me. All right, Welcome to World Cup Wednesday. We
Speaker 1: are so excited about the World Cup. It's a chance
Speaker 1: for all these countries, the forty eight countries, all their players,
Speaker 1: all the mums and dads and families they've all, they're
Speaker 1: all going to be gathered around. It's all these stories
Speaker 1: that were waiting to find out. You're going to meet
Speaker 1: new stars of the Soccer US seventeen seventeen Soccer Rus
Speaker 1: or the twenty sixth squad are making their debuts. Most
Speaker 1: of them you don't even know who they are. But
Speaker 1: over the next color you will get to fall in
Speaker 1: love with them. There's some really exciting young talent they're
Speaker 1: playing for this country and what it is, you know,
Speaker 1: in sport in Australia often splits the country unless it's
Speaker 1: the Olympics or the Matilda. Doesn't look what happened last
Speaker 1: couple of years ago with the Matildas and hold the
Speaker 1: whole country bit by bit got around them and swept
Speaker 1: up in that something we just don't get enough of
Speaker 1: these days, which is genuine unity and national cheer to
Speaker 1: get around each other and what it is to be
Speaker 1: this country now. And that's the same for all the
Speaker 1: other forty seven countries are going to be out there.
Speaker 1: It stops it, it stops. It's a rare thing in life.
Speaker 1: Sometimes sport can bring us together and it's where I, you, me,
Speaker 1: we all become. We the soccer Us. They get to
Speaker 1: play this Sunday, two pm on the rare games when
Speaker 1: it's not the early hours of the morning, where you
Speaker 1: can all maybe have some friends around, have a barbecue
Speaker 1: and support the soccer use. I can't wait. The World
Speaker 1: Cup is an incredible thing. Now. Rio has crunched some
Speaker 1: numbers about the odds, yes, okay, but anything can happen,
Speaker 1: that's true. Stars are made. You know, Italy aren't even there.
Speaker 1: They fail to qualify for the third time, which is
Speaker 1: why we've now got Christian Volpato. He wanted to play
Speaker 1: for Italy, they didn't qualify. It's that, you know, I've
Speaker 1: always loved my home country Australia. How about a little
Speaker 1: kicking around with you guys. Yeah, all right, we have
Speaker 1: to have it. We don't want him, boss, he's actually
Speaker 1: bloody good.
Speaker 3: You have to have him.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll have him stuff. You'll all be cheering
Speaker 1: in trustle he starts sparging them in, you'll all start
Speaker 1: cheering his name.
Speaker 3: But yes, it's not okay. The outlook is not great
Speaker 3: for Australia. We're five hundred and one dollar odds to win,
Speaker 3: five hundred and one to win the whole tournament. Time
Speaker 3: not great, especially when you compare it to Spain, who
Speaker 3: are one hundred times more likely than us to win.
Speaker 2: England though our third favorite.
Speaker 1: Please don't really, it's not coming home in my lifetime.
Speaker 3: You should get your hopes way up because you just
Speaker 3: want to say me cry, No, I'm just looking at
Speaker 3: the numbers, looking at the numbers.
Speaker 1: Get the hope the numbers don't apply to England. I've
Speaker 1: been here too many times. That's why I'm getting right by.
Speaker 1: And the only bandruding I'm junking on, jumping on is
Speaker 1: the Soccer Roofs.
Speaker 3: So yes, it's the but who knows anything could happen,
Speaker 3: Maybe we win the whole World Cup.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I was doing some research yesterday and I found this
Speaker 1: incredible story from the Soccer Roots of nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1: On a qualifying trip to play Rhodesia in Mozambique, soccer
Speaker 1: whose players hired a local witch doctor. Different time. He
Speaker 1: buried bones near the goalposts, cursed the opposition Australia one
Speaker 1: three to one. Then it gets bad. I'm afraid you've
Speaker 1: refused to pay him. He wanted his money, they said no.
Speaker 1: He then cursed the socer. He then cursed the soccer Roofs.
Speaker 1: You then failed to qualify for every World Cup from
Speaker 1: nineteen from nineteen teventy four to two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: The curse was finally lifted in two thousand and four
Speaker 1: when TV presenter John Saffren, Yes, John Saffren Lengen, flew
Speaker 1: back to Mozambiak hired a new witch doctor to reverse
Speaker 1: the curse. The next year, you qualified and you made
Speaker 1: the second round, an almost thirty year hex What about this?
Speaker 1: I found two thousand and one Covs Harbor Australia beat
Speaker 1: America American Samoa thirty one nil.
Speaker 2: Yes, Archie Thompson scored like what twelve twelveth No, No,
Speaker 2: I've got it wrong, thirteen goals.
Speaker 1: The scoreboard just gave up and just displayed it as
Speaker 1: thirty two nil. Even though it's thirty one, it still
Speaker 1: remains in history the biggest loss in an international game.
Speaker 2: At some point that becomes mean spirited?
Speaker 1: Does it.
Speaker 2: Tens?
Speaker 3: Pretty good with you don't have to parle on another
Speaker 3: twenty or thirty two?
Speaker 2: Is incredible?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: So last week I was talking about, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of the countries, they have their songs to cheer on,
Speaker 1: national pride, wish the team well and all the fans
Speaker 1: back home supporting them out there in the at the
Speaker 1: World Cup. And this is the one from Bosnia. This
Speaker 1: this is a banger. I'm from Bossia, dig too, America.
Speaker 2: I want to see statue of the deal. I can
Speaker 2: no longer h dg me do you United States? Dig
Speaker 2: me to Golden.
Speaker 1: Gate Nature There's no landmarks mentioned in Canada on Mexico.
Speaker 2: It's a statue limited.
Speaker 1: In the Golden Game Ganger right right, We're not Bossia,
Speaker 1: but certainly one of the Bosan We have nothing Hambauns
Speaker 1: in this country has nothing until now. Last week I
Speaker 1: commissioned Rio to make a song, the unofficial People's Anthem
Speaker 1: for the soccer use and it's time for the world's
Speaker 1: first play.
Speaker 3: Well, my starting point was it had to be an
Speaker 3: Aralian song.
Speaker 2: I can't have any of this, you know, foreign stuff.
Speaker 1: An international football too, yeah.
Speaker 3: Where we beat other countries, you're not trying to be
Speaker 3: friends with other countries. So it had to be an
Speaker 3: Aussie song. It had to be a big sum a
Speaker 3: foot stomper, something that would.
Speaker 1: Get kicker, very good Mondo rock.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 3: I'm picturing this is what the boys play. They put
Speaker 3: it on the Bluetooth in the locker room. But speaker,
Speaker 3: who's got the orcs G what's the Wi Fi code?
Speaker 2: So we're in the studio getting very fired up.
Speaker 3: I do before we play it, maybe have to issue
Speaker 3: a bit of a preemptive apology to the good people
Speaker 3: of Paraguay. I did get a bit carried away a
Speaker 3: little bit with the lyrics I'm sure you're.
Speaker 1: All we're not starting an international incident. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: straight up her moves. Let's not pick another fight, but
Speaker 1: you know you just have. I got a fair play,
Speaker 1: beautiful game, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: But with that in mind, it's time for the boys.
Speaker 4: Safara, fly in, Annison, nay go.
Speaker 5: Wait to the States, scoring for your country, play you
Speaker 5: for your mates, smash it, Yankes, feed the tracks, Paraguays.
Speaker 2: Sorry Arada, oh day, I'll tell you what the as
Speaker 2: you boys could play.
Speaker 5: It's a love way to the cup when you play
Speaker 5: the creed of gold.
Speaker 2: This is very good. It's a love way to the
Speaker 2: cup when you play the greed of gold.
Speaker 1: This it's coming to this, Hope, It's coming to.
Speaker 2: This, hope, just on this on alone.
Speaker 1: How can they not win in the opening game Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoons against.
Speaker 2: Turkey, Yes, I can not. Inspired.
Speaker 1: Incredible, incredible, I've actually got goosebumps.
Speaker 2: That is brilliance.
Speaker 3: And I want to send it to the Yanks to
Speaker 3: let them know we're coming to smash them.
Speaker 2: I want to send it to Turkey.
Speaker 1: Let them beat them in their own country, have their
Speaker 1: own World Cup.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, please let it be Please let it be.
Speaker 1: This is not the spirit. Is it smashing other countries?
Speaker 1: We're starting to sound like Trump.
Speaker 2: FM getting into
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