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Hello and welcome to the World Cup preview for Qatar the 2022 World Cup you know this tournament has a lot of crap going all around it the least of which being that it is the first world cup to actually take place in the middle of the playing season for professional soccer as basically

every World Cup for the past hundred plus years has taken place around the summertime in June, you know, not to conflict

with the actual soccer schedule globally.

You know, I don't know if you guys understand what this means, but this would be literally the equivalent

of playing the Olympics and Team USA basketball just upending the entire

NBA season to go play abroad except you know if people actually took Olympics

basketball truly seriously and yeah people cheer for USA, but for those who don't understand, soccer

is the most popular game in the world. By far, it's not even close. Like there's not a close second. Like if people in the US took

soccer and wanted to like actually understand it be following the combined efforts

and enthusiasm of both college football and the

and of both college football and the NFL

apply it to 20, I'd say at least 25 plus countries taking it as crazy as those two arenas combined.'s what soccer is in other parts of the world and the

U.S yeah we care when things like the World Cup comes up most people don't give a damn. And believe me, I'm not one of those

who are going to try to convert you to say you must watch the World Cup. I get it. People have

different strokes for different folks. But for those of you who are

interested in getting the breakdown, I'm going to walk through all the groups. I'm going to walk through some of the odds we're going to break this into

two episodes so again I encourage all of y'all to at least pay attention to this because even if you aren't watching

sucker you might at least get some betting trends to take a look at what's going on because realistically there are some interesting aspects that I think folks

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