Introducing We Came to Win

We Came to Win

Gimlet

Sports, Soccer, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

What can we say? Soccer… is life. Just in time for the 2022 World Cup, soccer fans and hosts Matt Nelson and Steve Ceruti share some of their favorite soccer episodes from Gimlet, Parcast and Spotify. Like how a scrappy US team leveled up to compete with Mexico and create a fierce rivalry. Or how the Spanish women's team fought for equal opportunities at the 2015 World Cup. And the story of the 1974 Zaire team who saw soccer as a way to climb out from under a dictator's rule. New episodes of We Came to Win publish each Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The World Cup means everything to me because to me it is everything. It's triumph, it's
0:12.0	failure, it's glory, it's shame and it's been a big part of my life. Here's the first
0:18.6	one I remember properly. USA-94, I was 11 years old and Diego Maradona scored an absolute
0:25.6	beauty for Argentina and to celebrate, he screamed down the camera lanes. It was like,
0:40.2	and I sound it did something to me. It shook my soul. And from that moment on, I was hooked.
0:48.2	I came with a game a little later. 2006, it's my senior year in high school.
0:53.0	Francesco Tati in that beautiful hair that outrageous Zenidines adon headbutt in the final
0:58.3	penalty kicks in Italy lifting the cup. After that, I was hooked too.
1:10.6	I'm Matthew Nelson, a Scottish guy who grew up with the game. And I'm Steve Cerudy,
1:15.8	an American dude who grew up with Madden and Hot Dogs. But we both love the World Cup.
1:20.3	And we want to share that love with you. That's right, Matt. On We Came to Win,
1:24.4	we're going to be telling you the stories about the World Cup's biggest characters,
1:27.4	like your guy Diego Maradona. He has the outward aggression and the vulnerability
1:32.9	rolled into one. There still is a deck tears try to use the World Cup for the
1:37.2	own political gain. If you don't play where you see what is going to happen to you when
1:41.5	when you come back here, you'll be punished. And something you and I both love to do, Matt,
1:46.8	we collectively laugh at England. Absolutely, Steve, you know me.
1:51.5	Oh God, it was never going in, wasn't it? It was never going in. From the minute he started his run-up.
1:57.4	And we'll also look forward to this year's competition.
2:00.2	A tournament that FIFA claims is carbon neutral. Spoiler alert, Steve, it is absolutely not.
2:07.5	Holba, FIFA? Lying? No. I know it's hard to believe, isn't it?
2:13.5	So join us, a Scotsman and an American for We Came to Win, a podcast about the single
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