World Cup Update
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Now off the balls, John Duggan has just sidled into studio here. Looking a little bit tired, John. A few late nights?
Morning, Ciara. Well, that's part of the gig, isn't it? It was 5am into Friday morning.
What recent matches have influenced the World Cup standings?
I'm not going to do that again. If I'm working the next day and it was 1am this morning. 1am is not too bad after watching Brazil against Morocco, which was an entertaining game. One all draw. Brazil up and running now in the tournament. Vinicius Junior, their star player, played quite well, I thought. It was New York, New Jersey is the branding of the stadium in New Jersey. And that's where the final is going to be. And it was hot last night at 11 o'clock, 6 o'clock local time. So that's where the final will be at 3 p.m. on the 19th of July. It's going to be possibly even hotter. So these hydration breaks where the cynics would say this is just for commercial advertising. I do think they are needed for a lot of the teams in certain games.
Do they need to be three minutes long?
Well, that's it. But that's the way FIFA's gone. It's a World Cup that is different to other World Cups because it's in North America. It's in the United States, which we know is the hub of capitalism. And we're seeing a lot of empty seats. We're seeing dynamic pricing. We're seeing the well-off being able to get to games and the ordinary fan being left out.
And look, we discussed it at length here on the programme. I've discussed it at length on Newstalk Daily podcast, all the controversies. So let's just take a break. Let's talk about the beautiful football. That's history for Qatar, isn't it?
It is, yes. First point of the World Cup, host nation four years ago. You've got to take your chances. You're never safe at 1-0 or a goal ahead, Ciara, and that's the price that Switzerland paid when they went in front through Mbolo earlier on with a penalty, but a 94th minute equaliser. from Boualem Okuki their skipper and it was a brilliant header to be fair to him so the few Qataris that were there in San Francisco really enjoyed that a one all draw the best game for me so far that I've seen has been Brazil Morocco Scotland have won their first match in 36 years
How is the weather affecting the World Cup games?
They beat Haiti overnight. John McGinn from Aston Villa with the winner. And that's good for the Tartan army that have gone out there. And we also had overnight, a bit of a surprise to be honest, Australia beating Turkey by two goals to nil. Young team Australia, the Socceroos, and they won that match by two goals to nil. We also had yesterday, Early in the day, what it was like late Friday, a big win for the USA, 4-1 over Paraguay. So they've got up and running in Los Angeles at this most futuristic stadium that we're playing in. But they've got Mauricio Pochettino, formerly manager of Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea in charge. I think they might do okay, the USA, beating Paraguay 4-1 and Canada and Mexico, the other host nations have already played as well.
Were you impressed with Morocco last night? I was very impressed. They kind of needed a standout team in some ways with those games yesterday.
Yeah, I was really impressed with the way they played the first half there. I thought they moved the ball in a very fluid manner, scored early. And Brazil were all over the shop, to be honest. And Morocco have got a lot of good young players. They won the Under-20 World Cup last year. They've got Ashraf Hakimi, who's a Champions League winner with Paris Saint-Germain. And it's not going to be a shock if Morocco do well, because they reached the semifinals, surprisingly, in Qatar a few years ago. Got to the African Cup of Nations final, lost that, 1-0 to Senegal. Senegal walked off the pitch, though, in the middle of it, so Morocco being awarded it. But you wash all that away, Morocco do have a chance of doing something in this tournament.
I really enjoy the way they knitted their passes together. But then once Brazil got their heads around the game, they started to get into it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:23
2
What recent matches have influenced the World Cup standings?
0:23–2:19
3
How is the weather affecting the World Cup games?
2:19–3:57
4
What unique challenges does the North America World Cup present?
3:57–7:22
5
Which teams have surprised us in the early matches?
7:22–10:25