How This World Cup Changed Soccer

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.5 • 97.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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For weeks, much of the globe has been riveted by the highs and lows of the World Cup in Qatar. On Sunday, the soccer tournament culminated in a win for Argentina and its star, Lionel Messi, against France. Here’s how the thrill of the game eclipsed the tournament’s tainted beginnings, and what that might reveal about the future. Guest: Rory Smith, the chief soccer correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernice and this is The Daily.
0:12.0	For the past few weeks, the world has been riveted by the drama of soccer's biggest
0:16.1	tournament being played in Qatar, the World Cup.
0:19.8	On Sunday, it culminated in a breathtaking win for Argentina and its star player, Leonel
0:25.6	Messi.
0:26.6	Today, I talk to my colleague, Rory Smith, about how the tournament's tainted beginnings
0:34.8	were eclipsed by the thrill of the games and why this World Cup may be an unsettling
0:40.4	sign of things to come in professional soccer.
0:49.1	It's Monday, December 19th.
0:55.9	Hi, I'm good.
0:59.8	I'm good.
1:00.8	What's going on around you?
1:03.8	I hear a lot of sounds.
1:05.6	Yeah, so I'm sitting outside the Los Aliconic Stadium, the venue of the World Cup
1:10.8	final.
1:11.8	I'm surrounded by a little battalion of glazed-eyed policemen who are, I suspect, at the end of
1:18.7	their shift and they're kind of going through what they've seen over the course of the
1:22.3	evening.
1:23.3	There's parade of journalists coming out of the stadium milling around all with an
1:27.8	equally glazed expression.
1:30.9	And there's just the kind of detritus of the global media.
1:34.4	There is the last few times.
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