Brazil bossing the Club World Cup, plus PSG v Messi in the last 16

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo, Duncan Alexander, Charlie Eccleshare and Colin Millar are in the studio with wall-to-wall football to discuss.

PSG set up a reunion with Lionel Messi and Inter Miami in the last 16 of the Club World Cup. And Botafogo knock out Atletico Madrid to tee up an all-Brazilian clash with Palmeiras. Jack Lang in LA tells us why Brazilian sides are doing so well at this tournament.

Man City face Juventus on Thursday with both sides already through. Are both free-scoring sides back to their best or are they just playing bad teams? And we need to talk about the weather.

There are goals galore and family trees rocking in both the Under 19 and Under 21s Euros, where holders England are one game away from the final.

Plus why no Lautaro love, CWC sides in the Premier League and the Sampdoria saga.

Produced by Charlie Jones.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Botafogo knock out Atleti, Messi v PSG (05.00)

• PART 1b: Let’s talk about the weather (07.30)

• PART 1c: Jack Lang on Brazilian success (11.30)

• PART 2a: Suarez bites Chiellini (21.00)

• PART 2b: Man City 6-0 Al Ain (24.00)

• PART 2c: Elsewhere in the Club World Cup (30.00)

• PART 3a: Drama and goals at the Under 21s and 19s (36.00)

• PART 3b: The foreign keeper ban in South Korea (40.00)

• PART 3c: The Sampdoria saga (43.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:11.2	Totally football show.
0:12.4	Today, Club World Cup, we get the latest from the Sunbaked stateside soccer
0:15.6	fest as Man City and Juventus head for a showdown and so do PSG and Messi.
0:20.0	Plus, why the Brazilian size have been bossing it.
0:22.6	Elsewhere, that's how England's under's got one over Spain,
0:25.4	why the one country foreign keepers can't have a career in is Korea,
0:29.1	and we enjoy the full operatic sweep of Salernetana Sab.
0:32.4	All that plus a cracking on this day in this totally football show.
0:49.1	Tuesday, 24th, June, listener, thank you so much for joining us.
0:50.7	We've got Colin Miller here.
0:51.4	Hello, Colin.
0:52.1	Hey, James.
0:54.5	Also, Charlie Ackresia, all right, Charlie.
0:55.0	Hello.
0:57.6	And good day to you, Duncan Alexander.
0:58.4	Good day.
0:59.7	Nice to see you all.
1:02.6	Colin, Duncan. Charlie, what have you been up to through these long football-less weeks of summer?
1:05.6	Well, I was in Paris for the French Open.
1:07.8	Nice.
1:08.4	For a few weeks, that was great.
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