Joey Durso

speaker
568 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Jun

Joey Durso’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months
2 · Jun OctJan 26AprJulnow

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment
Odd Lots · How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever · 25 Jun 2026 podcast
Is one sort of deep in your soul and your personal identity and you just feel it in a way that.
Yeah, well, that's an interesting question.
Which sporting culture is more commercial, corporate, capitalist, and which isn't?
Because obviously the US, in most respects, is far more capitalistic than in Europe.
But there's actually funny some ways to invert that.
One is sponsorship, and one is like this draft system, which to us feels like communism.
For us, you know, it's just the rich teams buy all the best players, and that's how it happens, and the rich get richer.
Yeah, well, so soccer in the US has quite a long history, but it was basically wiped out by the Wall Street crash.
So it was big in big industrial cities before that, big in kind of Philadelphia, New Jersey.
And then it was wiped out because it was deeply linked to these industries that were hit so badly in 1929.
And then it was kind of in the wilderness for half a century.
America's own sports became really big.
But yeah, it was sort of getting bigger and bigger.
You know, Pele came to play for the New York Cosmos in the 70s.
Beckenbauer as well.
It was like the place to be.
But yeah, USA 94.
FIFA had long wanted to bring the World Cup to the US, even though no one really cared in the US about the sport.
But because of money, because of business, because the world's biggest companies, the world's richest people, the world's biggest pool of wealthy consumers are in the US.
And, you know, the sort of footballing snobs of Europe, of which I'm probably sometimes one of them, probably turn their nose up at going to the US.
Showing 1–20 of 568 · page 1 of 29 Next →