Tim Vickery
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1,032 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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But now I think that distance, because he's been so successful with the national team, because the national team has been his priority for the last seven or eight years, I think now that distance has become a kind of reverence.
Ever since they won the World Cup in Qatar, it's almost been as if they're on an extended lap of honor.
And this World Cup, where in the past Argentina have gone into World Cups as champions on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Oh, we're going to lose our status.
It's going to be taken away from us.
This time, obviously, they want to win.
But this time it's also part of a kind of lap of honour.
Let's celebrate him for the last time.
And that, I think, makes the atmosphere a little bit lighter, a little bit less heavy.
The football side of this is just so...
small I would say and we take sport probably as seriously as anybody and its importance is you know absolutely huge but like this game probably should not be going ahead and I say that as somebody that
quite easy I think for people to separate that even though and we've got elections coming up later this year and the role of the United States is going to be a massive massive issue in those elections but even so I think the World Cup is so important to Brazilian society that it's not difficult just to put all the some of the politics just to one side and focus on the football because after all
It's been 24 years since Brazil won.
And this is a birthright.
There's a generation of Brazilians walking around now who don't know that feeling of being world champions.
So that is the most important thing.
Although, as I say, later on in the year with the elections, relationships with the United States is going to be a key subject.
Well, it was 24 years the last time that the World Cup was in the United States.
USA 94 ended a 24-year drought.
I remember the World Cup supplement of one of the heavy English newspapers.
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