Ed Cavalee
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And then it goes the Netherlands second, because this is the Diaspora World Cup.
And I'm sure that was a word that was only Google-able three weeks ago, but now everyone seems to be using it.
So as we know, a lot of the teams that you're seeing in this World Cup, they've gone to LinkedIn.
And I know that people have gone on and on about this, but they literally have gone around to video games and to websites like Transfer Market.
And they've looked to see whether or not a player from a league has an affiliation with their country.
And then it's someone's job to just message them.
and say, hello, I'm from Curacao.
Would you like to play for us?
And that is why you're getting, you know, people keep saying all these small countries, Cabo Verde and Curacao, et cetera.
And what they mean by that is they just don't know about these countries.
These countries have existed to some time and, you know, boring soccer people like me have somewhat been aware of them, but they've really reached into the diaspora, which is something that Australia does.
So Australia is, you know, has been well documented.
I think there's four refugees in the team at the moment, and that's not including the people from Scotland.
And then we've got, you know, people who were born in Scotland.
So Harry Suter's brother is in the squad for Scotland.
And so we have done this, Croatians, et cetera, et cetera.
So that's the real story of this World Cup is the idea that where you're from isn't necessarily where you were born.
It's almost like I've done media for 25 years.
Who is this boss of yours?
Because I've worked at your fine company.