Daniel Alarcón
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2,010 appearances
36 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard 10 Jul
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No one ever thinks about Peru, where I'm from.
And usually they think about Peru when something bad happens, you know, or we get another president or whatever happens.
And so just to be visible and just to see yourself, you know, people talk a lot about, you know, sort of this idea of like, you know, what it means to be seen.
And I think the World Cup for a lot of people from small countries, from obscure countries or countries that people don't think about much in the United States is,
When we appear on the world stage, you know, on this particular world stage, it's so emotional.
And that's the one thing that I think Americans take for granted.
There's one other thing that I think that Americans don't get because we don't have a diaspora.
Diasporas come to us.
National teams for diasporic peoples are so important because they are
The simplest way to express your love for a country, even if that love can be very complicated, even if your parents left because they had to, you still love that place.
And it can be a complicated love.
And the national team for 90 minutes allows you to simplify it.
You throw on the jersey.
You forget about the politics.
You forget about your crazy family.
You forget about the reasons why you emigrated.
And you just express this very simple love for the place that you come from.
We do, you know, they might own the branding and the, you know, they make all the money, but, and they might have successfully weaponized our love of the game against us.
But for me, you know, the reason that I'm flying back to Bogota to watch, I'm not a Colombian.
My wife is, our family is, our friends are, but flying back to Bogota to see the game with that community is,
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