Spain held by Cape Verde as France + Argentina arrive at the party
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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
45 min
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What were the biggest shocks on Day 5 of the World Cup?
Totally at the World Cup, coming to you from Los Angeles, here are the big stories on Day 5. Cape Nofir, signed from Atlantic Archipelago, stunned the Spanish. Out of Tunisia, manager Sabri Lamouchi axed by North Africans after getting beaten by Sweden. And topically enough, opponents of Iran have problems shipping loads in 2-2 draw with Kiwis. Plus Tuesday's action featuring France against Senegal. Hello there everybody, it is another edition of Totally at the World Cup in Los Angeles. Many thanks for joining us. Today on the couch we have Tom Williams.
Hello James.
Lovely to see you Tom. Likewise. Also very elegant looking Megan Faringa.
Hi James, you look elegant too.
Thank you so much. As does our little guest between you, which is a representation of our skunk visitor who has actually made a real life appearance apparently just behind me. So, yeah. He's playing around with the timings.
He knows he's getting a sense of what a big deal he is. And he started, you know, keeping us on our toes.
But it's still light outside, so this is quite nice. We actually really got to see him this time.
We did. We did. And possibly you will too when the whole show is put together. There'll be a lot more skunk content later on. But we're also joined by Maher Mazahi, who's actually... Where are you, Maher? You're by a roadside somewhere.
Yeah.
Yes, I'm sitting by the side of a road off of one of the interstate highways in Bethel, Vermont, which I see, according to a roadside sign, is the birthplace of Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church.
All right. There you go.
All right. I should mention that I spent the day in New England. I am on my way to Montreal to watch the match tomorrow with the Algerians, where there's a big community. That's why I am where I am.
Okay. Huge game on Tuesday. Algeria taking on the world champions, Argentina. Earlier on today, you caught another massive game. You were with part of this massive Cape Verdean diaspora in New England, I think, to see their 0-0 draw with Spain.
Exactly. So I got... In the morning, we arrived to Massachusetts, a place called Brockton. They call themselves the City of Champions. That's their tagline. Excuse the cars driving behind me. And it was a really great town. It was kind of run down. And the Cape Verdeans, it was interesting seeing the Cape Verdeans that I met in Brockton. And then later on in the day, I went to Dorchester and then later on to Boston proper. Brockton, it felt like the Cape Verdeans that were there had freshly arrived. And in Dorchester, it seemed like they were more established. And Boston even more so. And it was just really a day of speaking to them and asking them what it meant for Cape Verde to be at the World Cup. And, you know, Jimbo, sometimes we, I think, patronize these teams when we say they're just happy to be here and we don't give them their proper respect.
But to be completely honest, that's what they told me was most important to them today was respect. One guy told me, look, you see the score bug? You see where it says CPV and there's our flag right there? Like, I watch the World Cup every four years. I've never seen my country there. And for them to have their country up on that score bug and for everybody, the entire world to be watching their country, it meant so much to them. And that really was the most important thing for them today.
And best of all is what the scorebug said at the end of the game when they'd managed to hold Spain one of the favourites to a nil-nil draw. All the games today did end in draws. Curiously enough, first time that's happened in how long, Tom?
Since 1958, and it was a year to the day. that it happened. It was on this day in 1958 that there were last four draws on the same day at a World Cup. And if you told me prior to the start of the day that all of the day's games would end in draws, knowing the matches that we had to watch, I would have probably thought, oh, that's going to be a bit of a bummer of a day. But actually...
It's been brilliant. Four really interesting matches.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What were the biggest shocks on Day 5 of the World Cup?
0:00–6:34
2
How did Cape Verde manage to hold Spain to a draw?
6:34–24:35
3
What challenges did Tunisia face in their World Cup journey?
24:35–34:25
4
What were the highlights from the matches involving Saudi Arabia and Uruguay?
34:25–35:26
5
How did the World Cup finalists France and Argentina prepare for their matches?
35:26–45:35
Speakers
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