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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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Guatemala and the USA march on after I watched two quarter-finals in one day go straight to penalties after 90 minutes. I’m all for it.
Let me tell you about why, about the dream that has become reality for one of Guatemala’s brave boys, and about the goalkeeper who did his homework at Harvard before saving three penalties for his country.
And leave me a comment or two - as I flit back and forth across the States, I could do with the entertainment.
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0:00.0 | Welcome Revis de la Liga. |
0:02.0 | Subscribers, there are a couple of new subscribers in the last three days, so in the next broadcast I'll be mentioning them. |
0:10.0 | Straight off the back of a night at the Minnesota Vikings, U.S. Bank Stadium. |
0:18.0 | Outside, honestly, I don't believe, well, do I ever design it? May have been |
0:25.5 | taking tabs. Inside, it's sensational. First time that NFL stadium was ever hosted soccer. |
0:34.1 | Two games. The first was Guatemala against Canada honestly I really thought that um Canada |
0:41.5 | having watched their prep listened to them |
0:43.9 | I thought they would easily have the measure of Guatemala Guatemala |
0:47.0 | played better than they have in any time in the tournament |
0:49.5 | we did a really nice feature um with a guy called Oscar |
0:53.9 | Santos was Guatemalan born, but was |
0:57.0 | playing his football until very recently in Tbilisi, in Georgia, and he had a vision that he |
1:02.4 | had to come back and help his national team qualify for the World Cup and go far in the Gold |
1:07.4 | Cup. |
1:08.4 | And he was slagged off in his country because they said, you come home, you idiot, it's |
1:13.6 | a smaller league here, you got out, you're in your mid-20s, you should be using Tbilisi |
1:19.6 | football as a trampoline into European football and he says he was really slagged off. |
1:24.6 | He's a guy who visualises and believes in visualising success and |
1:30.3 | in achieving it. So in his interview he said to us, I had a dream. I dreamt of scoring a hat |
1:36.9 | trick for, I may have told you this before, a hat trick from my country and then he did it. |
1:41.2 | And he showed us the tattoos on his upper torso, which were, I mean, |
1:49.4 | a tattoo of Christ, a tattoo of the rosary bead, a tattoo of a Bengal tiger, a tattoo with the name |
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