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Pablo Torre Finds Out

How a Video Game You’ve Never Played Changed the Biggest Sport on Earth

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre

News, Government, Sports, Sports News

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Sports video games pride themselves on their simulation of reality. But the most popular ones that Americans know and love — Madden, FIFA, NBA 2K, MLB: The Show — cannot compete with an intensely specific and uniquely important game called Football Manager. Which got so good at simulating soccer that it converted a worldwide army of real-life players, coaches, and executives into genuine obsessives — changing the multi-billion dollar soccer industry itself. PTFO’s London correspondent, Kieran Morris, embarks on a global quest to explain the Football Manager revolution… and jeopardizes his impending marriage in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

It's a dangerous, dangerous, almost like narcotic feeling when you're really in the midst of it. It's more than a football game, far more than a football game.

0:15.9

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0:56.0

Experts only available with Turbo Tax Live. So, Kiran Morris, my favorite sorts of episodes on this show are Passion Projects.

1:10.0

Until today, I've never been concerned that someone I'm about to talk to has too much enthusiasm for a subject.

1:18.0

So thank you for joining us and I guess preemptively I'm a little worried about you

1:23.6

I can't say thank you I whatever the opposite of that is is what I'm saying to you you brought a sickness back into my life

1:30.9

You brought years and years of hard-won sobriety crashing down as soon as it was the last thing you said to me in this studio months ago, hey, do you like football manager?

1:45.0

I just, but here we go.

1:55.0

Okay, so I didn't know how much I'd be ruining the life of Kirid Boris, our 27-year-old British correspondent, when I assigned him this story, the story about his

1:59.7

particular sickness, known as football manager.

2:04.0

And football manager, if you did not know, is this globally popular and uniquely important

2:09.7

and extraordinarily strange video game that I knew jack-shin about.

2:15.0

Because look, I'm not a soccer expert.

2:18.0

Guys, I love FIFA.

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