Leander Schaerlaeckens
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344 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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But nevertheless, you know, for a country that small.
to be able to come to a World Cup and not embarrass itself, I think also shows that the World Cup is not too big at 48 teams and that there is room to let more teams into the tent and to, you know, absorb more nations and that, you know, the quality is not capped at 32 teams.
First of all, can I just say that I would very happily listen to a podcast of just Barry pronouncing Turkish names?
I don't know if it's good or bad.
I'm not in a position to judge, but it is wonderful.
As for the US, you know, for the book that I wrote, I went back and watched every US World Cup game going back to 1990, and they have never looked this good.
They have just...
managed to somehow cobble together the physicality and the fitness and the feistiness that used to allow them to compete.
But now they are also like technically really sound and tactically astute and you're seeing them play through teams and you're seeing them create overloads and force problems for the opposing teams.
They now have two own goals.
that have benefited them from other teams, which I believe is the only team in World Cup history, if memory serves, that's gotten that many own goals in its favor at one tournament.
But they were very much forced own goals.
They were a little bit lucky, but they've also just really overrun the two teams that they faced in Paraguay and Australia in the first half, and then kind of settled in a little bit for the second half and taken their foot off the gas.
But they've been really impressive.
I'm really curious to see what Belgium looks like for this second match, because I don't know if you recall this, but Kevin De Bruyne gave this interview to The Guardian, actually, where he was asked, can you win the World Cup?
And he said, no chance, we're too old.
That was before the Qatar World Cup.
And an awful lot of that Belgium team is still there.
And I have a really hard time, and I look at the Belgian lineup, of thinking of guys who were...
Who are better now than they were four years ago.
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