252. The World Cup: British Imperialism, South American rivalries, and Mussolini (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Welcome to The Rest Is History's definitive guide to the history of the FIFA World Cup, which looks past the football and uncovers the personalities, geopolitics, and drama behind the tournament. In the first of three episodes, Tom and Dominic debate whether the global game is a product of British Imperialism, vicious South American rivalries, Bolivians playing in berets, the looming shadow of the Second World War, Mussolini, Hitler, and more. Join The Rest Is History Club (www.restishistorypod.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the rest is history.
0:02.2	For weekly bonus episodes, add free listening, early access to series and membership
0:07.3	of our much-love chat community, go to the rest is history.com and join the club. That is, the rest is History. is History.
0:15.0	The Rest is History.
0:16.0	. . . . . . . . Rose, Comrachip, Fairplay. Those are the words, Dominic, with which the Frenchman Gjureme in
0:37.6	1928 persuaded his colleagues on the Federation International
0:44.0	de Football Association FIFA.
0:47.0	Beautiful French, Tom, beautiful French.
0:50.2	To set up a world cup and the legacy of that move is very much with us today, is it not?
0:57.3	because it's a week before the start of the World Cup in Qatar.
1:02.2	Yes, it is. 32 teams will be taking part. And one of the things
1:06.9	that strikes me about the involvement of Rime setting up this massive global juggernaut is it's very like the Olympics. There seemed to be
1:16.4	kind of Frenchman appropriating British ideals of fair play and kind of marketing them to the world.
1:22.7	And as with the Olympics, we did two episodes
1:25.0	on the modern Olympics, didn't we?
1:26.7	And it began with our memorable account of Duyl Flunking.
1:30.3	If you haven't heard that, do check that that out one of the great moments on the
1:34.9	podcast I think and we said at the beginning of that you know I think that there are
1:38.8	two areas of historical inquiry that lots and lots of people who otherwise are obsessed by history can say they're very proud to know nothing about one of them is religion and one of them is sport.
1:50.0	Yeah, I think that's absolutely right. So in fact a lot of people who regularly listen to this podcast
1:54.8	When we said we are intending to do the definitive history of the World Cup
1:59.8	They sort of there are some people who reacted with horror, oh no, not football in a history podcast.
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