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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And it probably won't come out, or 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, you know.
Only David Beckham is more present, from what I understand, of all the advertising out there.
Beckham is advertising everything.
Chainsaws, I think I saw at one point.
Yeah.
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 the conflict, you know, back in the mid-2000s.
So there's a lot of footballing legacy there, but the same for Iran as well in that region.
They're very strong teams, but it feels like,
Again, 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 military.
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