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Gab and Juls: Maracanã Madness

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens are joined by ESPN Brasil’s Gustavo Hofman to reflect on the distressing scenes at the Maracanã ahead of Argentina’s 1-0 victory over Brazil and ask what’s next for both Brazil and Argentina. The guys also discuss the UEFA Euro 2024 playoff draw, whether Inter Miami will play in Saudi Arabia or not & if Italy were lucky to qualify for the Euros. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gabby Jules Grace guys over West London, but Jules what a show we have for you today.

0:11.5

We thought it was just a quiet leading international week, big sigh of relief for my people.

0:16.4

The play also, yeah. Never play North Macedonia ever again.

0:20.4

But we have to start somewhere else.

0:23.0

We can start at the Malachana at the home of football.

0:26.4

Argentina beating Brazil, 1-0.

0:29.0

And from the footballing element,

0:30.6

there's already a ton of things to talk about because this is just third defeat.

0:34.5

It's a first ever defeat in the World Cup qualifier at the Marachana.

0:39.0

But to help us go through what happened off the pitch before the game which is really quite remarkable

0:44.7

we're joined by Gustav Offman of E.S.B. in Brazil. Gustavo, I'm going to quickly describe what I think the flash point was, my understanding is the

0:55.9

teams came out, they played the national anthem, during the anthem in a portion of the

1:01.9

stands where you had an organized sort of traveling

1:06.2

Argentina fans and you had a group of Brazil fans. They sort of buoy the anthem, some trouble started, and then the police came in, and the police

1:19.0

started wielding batons, things got violent, at that point, a bunch of Argentina players came over also because some had relatives and family members in that group

1:26.8

We saw Diba Martinez try to climb into the stands Leonel messy saying all this, we're not playing, taking the people off the pitch,

1:36.1

then calm was restored. Is that pretty much an assessment? Have I missed anything?

1:40.8

Hello guys, thank you for having me here. It's always a pleasure. Well, yes, that's the scenario. That's the scenario. That's the sad scenario that we have at Maraca. We had a high expectation for this match to see if Brazil would recover from their losses,

1:55.3

if Argentina would recover from its loss also from Uruguay.

1:59.1

It's one of the biggest classicals in the word football for us in South America. It's the

2:05.1

biggest classical ever that we can we can have. But what we saw at the stands of

2:10.4

Maracana was was a shame was a shame especially for Brazil because the match was in Rio de Janeiro.

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