Horatio Gould

So 34 World Cup, that had qualification for the first time.

32 nations are competing.

There are no group stages.

So it's just, you lose, fuck off.

So like the US came all the way over by boat, opening match against Italy, 7-1 loss, back home, fuck off, out the window, see you later.

Now- So we can't see any footage of this, right?

This is too early.

We really don't know what sort of- Well, Italy at this time are supposedly a very good team.

But Mussolini doesn't want to let any chance of him not winning the World Cup go to waste.

So he basically... He rigs the entire tournament.

So all the rest... He's got like... He makes it... He thinks that full stadiums will show how good fascism is.

So there's like...

So foreign players are banned from the Serie A season.

And then what he does is he takes South American players who are really good and he basically renationalizes them.

But this is pre-World War II.

So this is fine.

It's fine.

If you see an Argentinian with a German name, like who's that Argentinian footballer who's got a German...

Reichardt or something.

You're just like, right, okay, well, what's your granddad?