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Gab & Juls Show: World Cup 2026 is here!

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ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens are in New York as Mexico beat South Africa in the World Cup curtain-raiser. The guys discuss the game and break down some of the biggest stories in world football.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gab, he's Jules.

0:07.1

No clue about the weather in London because we don't care because we're right here in New York.

0:13.0

That's right, the Big Apple, downtown New York, Jules.

0:16.0

This is the Gab and Jewel show presented by Gusto.

0:19.8

So good to be here, man.

0:21.4

It feels a little different.

0:22.7

Theo's a little harder.

0:24.2

But you know what?

0:24.8

Future is bright.

0:25.4

I got to be wearing shades because Italy won the European men's under 17 championship.

0:32.5

No, no, no, no.

0:33.3

Just kidding.

0:34.0

The World Cup is underway.

0:35.9

Mexico, starting with a two-year win over south africa

0:39.2

could have been more should have been more yeah i think the only thing if we want to

0:43.5

be a little bit picky here is that he didn't score more goals they should have

0:46.7

they played for most of the second half with ten against eleven against ten

0:52.0

then even after that eleven against 9 and even when they were

0:55.4

two men up they could not really create they didn't want it looked like they didn't want to attack and

1:00.1

score more and then in the end they ended up losing a player themselves and I don't know how you can

1:05.0

get a red card when you 11 against 9 I think for me that was crazy and if you want to be a bit picky

1:09.4

I think they'd be frustrated and and quite disappointed by that You're talking about Cesar Montes there, of course. Tall and handsome, but bro, you let your team down in this one. I mean, this is going to have a knock-on effect, I think, in the second game. We still expect Mexico to go through. It was sunny, Joe's, because to me it looked like, and we know there's pressure on them. They're a host nation. They're playing at home. They thought about execution, not throwing things up. But once you get the lie of the land, once you know that South Africa are going to play in this way, you have to go out there and I think try to do a little more. And it sounded to me like on television there were some booze as well. I didn't hear the booze, to be fair, but I just thought they did some good stuff at time. They hit the post. They had enough chances to score three or four easily. It's more the fact that Stein wanted to control even more the game at 11 against 9 when really they should have started

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