Simon Cooper
speaker
334 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Simon Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I go there.
It took me half an hour to find it.
Obviously, nobody had been there in many years.
And there's a little gold plaque on the grave.
Julien May gives his dates, doesn't say what he did in his life.
He's really forgotten.
So if you find his memoir, which had to go to the French National Library to read, etc.,
who was this guy he's from a poor peasant family the parents move to paris they become grocers and he joins them in paris and so he lives among poor people there his family's low middle class he's a bright boy he studies law so he rises in the world but he lives among poor people and he thinks if poor men are going to play football seriously they have to be paid he was never really interested in playing football himself he just wanted to be a football administrator and very important part of his life stories in world war one for four years
It's amazing he survived.
He's in the trenches for four years.
He wins the French military cross, the Croix de Guerre, three times.
And he comes home from war with the idea we have to make peace between peoples.
We have to reconcile, especially the French and Germans, and football is the way to do that.
And he becomes president of the French FA.
And then in 1921, just after the war, he becomes president of FIFA.
He stays president for 30 years.
And during his era, they create this World Cup in 1930.
So it's the idea of football brings peace.
Everyone is welcome.
It doesn't matter if your ruler is a fascist or a Democrat.
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