Maher Mezahi
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248 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Maher Mezahi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it was just really a day of speaking to them and asking them what it meant for Cape Verde to be at the World Cup.
And, you know, Jimbo, sometimes we, I think, patronize these teams when we say they're just happy to be here and we don't give them their proper respect.
But to be completely honest, that's what they told me was most important to them today was respect.
One guy told me, look, you see the score bug?
You see where it says CPV and there's our flag right there?
Like, I watch the World Cup every four years.
I've never seen my country there.
And for them to have their country up on that score bug and for everybody, the entire world to be watching their country, it meant so much to them.
And that really was the most important thing for them today.
Well, it's not as funny as Megan's.
I don't have the wordplay of Tom either.
But I think just seeing the 40-year-old Cape Verdean goalkeeper, Virginia, who was very close to actually retiring from international football prior to the World Cup beginning.
Seeing him have that kind of performance, seven saves, I think 15 ball recoveries, and
Just burst into tears after the match, thinking about his grandparents that are no longer with him, thinking about his mother who's, you know, thousands of miles away.
That's kind of what football is about.
That's what tugs at all of our heartstrings, I think.
A little bit, because to sack a manager after one match in the World Cup is a drastic step.
I think they wouldn't have done this if they didn't lose by five goals to Belgium, as Tom mentioned, in the final pre-tournament friendly.
For Sabri Lamouchi, I mean, his story at the World Cup, he was the final player that was cut from the French squad that won the 1998 World Cup back when he was playing.
And then in 2014, he was coaching Cote d'Ivoire.
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