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Chapter 1: What highlights from the World Cup are discussed in this episode?
The second captain's world service.
It is not war and death and famine. It's not that at all. It's the opposite of that. It's to persuade there's a world outside of that. That's why sport's important.
When you guys left us last, I believe, Brano had taken Ken by the hand and guided him into the middle of an insane Egyptian celebration party in Queens. Young and viral. After their first ever World Cup win, and the party has not stopped for the two boys since then. Welcome to your regular reminder of why you really should sign up to the World Service for the rest of this World Cup.
This is good stuff. Ken's been assimilating very well into American soccer culture. Center halves. And into US society more widely. Sir, your case is five pounds over. That's $70. After that, Egypt watch party Ken and Browno continued on into New Jersey to feel the force of Erling Haaland in World Cup mode as they watched Norway beat Senegal 3-2.
And from there it was on to Miami, the city that befuddles Kennedy like no other.
I thought it was a two in the action. I thought it was a half two. It's a half. Oh, no. This is a fucking nightmare. Oh, my God. This is a disaster. Unbelievable. It's fucking.
Oh, no. The lads were in the stadium to see Scotland's dreams crushed by a Vinnie Jr. inspired Brazil. But the boys also had eyes for another Brazilian superstar. The love that these people have for Neymar was really apparent there. I mean, you had texted about, oh, look, Neymar is warming up. And I saw him down there warming up. And you could see the people all around.
Brazilian fans down in that section were not watching the game.
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Chapter 2: How did Ken and Branno experience the celebrations in Miami?
We're just watching him and taking photos of him and waving to him and trying to get him to sort of respond to them. And he was kind of looking at the game and warming up in a fairly desultory manner. And I wasn't sure if he was just sort of...
had gone down to have a walk around like you know um and then suddenly it was like i think 71 72 minutes there was there was this huge roar ah from the crowd like a huge war and i i my first thing was to look up the scoreboard because all throughout this game they've been showing um the haiti morocco uh score lines and goals uh so they but haiti's second goal looks like an absolute rocket at this yeah
Unlabeled straight into the top corner, similar to the disallowed Uzbekistan one from the other day. So lots of good goals flying in here. But Haiti, they usually preface these announcements with a little do-do-do, like an announcement jingle. And that hadn't happened. I looked up. There was no goal. And there's obviously nothing happening in the game.
And then I looked down and I saw him standing there, the number 10. in his Brazil, his yellow shirt, although awful Brazil shirts, shorts, socks combo today. I hate when they're made to do this, where this washed out yellow, white, and white combo, and Scotland were in all dark blue, you know? And if you look at the 82, the classic Scotland Brazil, if you look at the classic game,
Right, in 1982, what do we have? Scotland, blue shirts, blue shirts, white shorts, red socks. Brazil, yellow shirts, blue shorts, white socks, right? What's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? Apparently the televisions can't handle or it's some weird TV. I asked Miguel, I was like, what's this? We were kind of both complaining. I said, why are they doing this?
And he said, it's some TV thing. I'm like, well, like the TVs are like, the TVs show you better than real life now. You've got like, you know, you've got like 72 inches of like HDT, you know, Super 8K, whatever. You can tell like the difference between yellow and blue.
The other thing is that it infringes on the ancient rules of heraldry, because anyone who knows anything about color knows that white and yellow in heraldry are metals, gold and silver. And you cannot have gold on silver or silver on gold. It doesn't work. It doesn't stand out on the battlefield. You need to use it with the... You can only use a metal in combination with a color.
So blue on yellow would be fine. Black on silver would be fine. But white and yellow, silver and gold together, no, never. And this is just another way in which FIFA doesn't understand really anything and tries to make everything terrible. Even just the two pretty kits, we could see a nice white, red, you know, even this is denied us by FIFA's stupidity and vulgarity.
But maybe we've said enough about that. Neymar was standing there wearing his number 10. and the crowd are cheering, and he comes on in such a roar. And you're just thinking, wow, they just love this guy. And they should love him, because he's a genius. He's the only genius they've had in the last 25 years, since Ronaldinho came through.
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Chapter 3: How did Scotland perform against Brazil in the World Cup?
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Chapter 4: What insights are shared about Neymar's impact on Brazilian football?
Because this is the best I've ever seen Vinny Jr. play for Brazil. So good. So good. And he does it when he's the biggest star on the team. And now, once Neymar steps on that pitch, that's no longer true. Vinny Jr. is still the best player, but he's not the biggest star anymore. And I wonder if this Neymar stuff kind of annoys him a little bit.
Because you see Neymar, and like, I don't want to say he's a fat slob. Because, you know, he's not. Like, he has made some effort to be fit for this.
He does look like he's retired from football and he's back doing Masters football. He does.
He's like, he's playing for, you know, Barca legends, you know, at Old Trafford in some kind of a Sunday afternoon thing during an international break. And like, you know, it's, you're hoping that he can, that he can.
He had a shot late around the 90th minute. He had a shot that was saved. Yeah.
So he can still kick a ball. Oh, he's brilliant. He is an absolute genius. So he can do all of these. He can do anything with a ball to a higher level than still any of these Brazil players, I would say. But it's just a question of you also have to be able to get around the pitch a bit. You have to be able to move. He used to have the most amazing balance.
And I can't believe that with his current shape, he's still got that. He's a bit too top-heavy now. You know what I mean. He's got a punch. So I don't think he's really... I don't know. But people don't care about that. And it's funny because all week, we were talking about everything, but all the Endric-y memes... And it's like, Carlo will do anything to pick.
You know, Rafinha gets sent to jail. And then, like, it's Ancelotti there, like, covered in prison tattoos. Like, you know, he's in, like, he's in some prison gang just because he loves Rafinha so much. And all these Brazilians are like... Wow, this guy, he really seems to love every player. He prefers everybody to Endricky.
It's really unfair, because Endricky, as we know, is the bearer of the flame. He's the guy who's picked up the torch from, well, Vinny Jr. has been trying to pick it up, but Neymar's held onto it, and Endrick has made a late run, and he's suddenly got the torch. He's the guy they think is the next big thing. And as soon as Neymar appeared, they just all forgot about him immediately.
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