Tim Vickery
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5 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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And the big shout line was, Brazil have to win now or...
or they will lose their place as leaders, undoubted leaders of the global game.
Well, maybe you can write the one up this time.
This time seems even more serious, I think, than USA94.
Just because, although on the one hand, in so many aspects of global life...
And see my dog, Didier Dogba, very, very excited for the World Cup as well.
In so many aspects of global life, Europe has become less relevant.
In football, it's become more relevant.
And it really, really is, I think, striking that since they won the one last time in 2002, every campaign for Brazil has ended as soon as they've come up against the European team in the knockout stages of the competition.
It's one of the reasons they've got a European in to help them beat them.
Come on down, Mr. Carlo Ancelotti.
The Second Captains Podcast · World Cup Week, KenCall, Neymar's Cankles, Why Norway? · 5 Jun 2026
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Yeah, I think that your theory is about Ancelotti's reverence for talent is correct.
In fact, he has a story that he has told a couple of times about how he came to this realization, which involves one of the players in that final, which was Roberto Baggio.
And he, Ancelotti was the manager of Parma, I think, in the late 90s at some point.
And they were going to sign Baggio, and Ancelotti said, no, no, no, I don't want him.
He wants to play as a 10, and our system doesn't have a 10.
And so he went off and joined somebody else.
And it was after a little while that Ancelotti realized,
I am stupid.
I should have signed Baggio and just figured out how to use him.
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