Episode Details

On politics and football.

Alex is joined by Karl Sharro, Juan David Rojas, Tim Abrahams, and Euan Marshall to pick over the stories of this World Cup.

• If the World Cup is a branding exercise for the hosts, what exactly is the USA selling here? And Mexico? Canada?

• Are conspiracy theories good, actually?

• Is Argentina evil? Should you support the global South against the colonisers?

• Are evangelicals responsible for Brazilian failure?

• Do you need central planning to become good at football?

• When 23% of players at the WC are foreign born, how can globalisation be ending?

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Links:

• Football won’t rescue the nation, Alex Hochuli, Africa Is a Country

• Note to Leftists, Do Not Squander The World Cup!, Juan Rojas, Substack

• Blood ties and opportunity: Why more World Cup players than ever are not representing their birth nations, BBC