Daniel Alarcon

I love this game.

I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, its beauty.

Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important.

What do we invest in right now?

What is the immediate advice you give people right now?

It's to value time.

to be cognizant of time and how important time is, because once the time is up, it's up, and then that's it.

No, but we'll obviously try to get that rescinded.

I'm not sure what happened.

I do know that, you know, there were certain things said in a language that the referees couldn't understand in references to Luca's mom.

And, you know, again, I think they just – Austin gets targeted three times by Carter.

Like, they didn't have real good control of that basketball game.

He talking about JJ.

I'm talking about for criticizing the official.

Yeah.

I'm Daniel Alarcón, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids.

My first World Cup was Mexico 86.

I was nine years old.

I watched every game and I fell in love.

On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup.