John Bruin
speaker
534 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3 Sep
John Bruin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There must be if he's continuing on like this.
But, yeah, we're not sure.
And it probably won't come out or, you know, the back channels will reveal it perhaps, but that's just Messi.
We don't know him.
He's different to Ronaldo, isn't he?
Ronaldo almost presents the sort of Stepford Wives version of himself, doesn't he, with all the social media stuff.
Messi is on lots of adverts, but even in adverts, he sort of is unknowable there too, isn't he?
He's just an unspeaking...
guy uh you know um only only david beckham is more present for what i understand of all the advertising out there beckham is advertising everything chainsaws us i think that's really yeah that in itself is um extraordinary um and there's a whole there's a whole story to talk about there which we won't go into now with him and his family and all the rest of it but of course
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, 1986 was the last time they were in the World Cup.
And the Iraqi team actually has been quite decent.
I remember them winning the Asian Cup at a time when the country was
at its worst during, during the conflict, you know, back to 2000, mid 2000s.
So there's, there's a lot of footballing legacy there, but same for Iran as well in, in that region.
They're very strong teams, but it feels like this is, again, we go, we go to the sort of soothing balm of the world cup, don't we?
That,
nationhood can be expressed in a slightly different way by football it's not uh it's not military it's it's it's a national pride that a team can bring uh and yeah to people from the diaspora of a country can go and watch these their team play and enjoy them and even when they lose just to be at a world cup feels so precious i mean i remember the first world cup game i ever went to was saudi arabia tunisia which doesn't sound the most glamorous fixture does it
But I gained an understanding of how much it meant to the people that were there from Saudi and from Tunisia that would just, you know, to be at a World Cup, to be at the whole world looking at your team, it means so much.
And again, it does.
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