Dion Fanning

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888 appearances 15 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Who Will Win The FIFA World Cup 2026? · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And I wonder if because of, again, because of the competition,

that this might suit them because you will actually, during the group stages, be able to rest players, be able to take players out of the firing line, rotate that attacking talent and find your feet a little bit like that.

So I think they will have, that could suit them.

But I do, more objectively than Miguel, I do agree with Miguel that Spain, I think, are the team to beat.

I like Tuchel a lot.

I think I like the squad he picked.

I think it showed, again, what Tuchel is hired for in the sense of it shows his force of personality, his ability just to pick a squad that he believes is necessary to get through.

And I...

But I do think that they've been sort of over, they've been elevated in the last few tournaments because, as Miguel said, they had an easy run.

This time, it should, like, it could be a quarterfinal against Brazil and that would be, that would obviously be a test for them.

I, again, I think Brazil, we all, again, Brazil are a bit like the World Cup itself.

We come into the World Cup going, hate this, this is rubbish, this is terrible.

And then, you know, and like Brazil, because they are the essential part of the World Cup, as it gets closer to it, you start going, maybe actually Brazil might surprise a few people.

Well, the magic is gone.

Like, the magic hasn't been there since probably...

I don't think it's been really there since 82, 86.

A bit, but not an enormous amount.

But again, that's also how football has changed because those teams before 86, before 90 were so definitively a South American team and that isn't the way it is, the way football is anymore.

I...

I think Brazil might do better than people had thought in this tournament.

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