When Argentina won the World Cup, it meant so much to so many people,

but there's one person in particular for whom it meant everything.

Soccer legend Leonel Messi.

In the last cup, a bilingual podcast series, I explore why.

Listen now to the last cup podcast from NPR and Fududo Studios.

People who survived the surprise attacks by Hamas and Israel

can still recount vivid images of the carnage of October 7th.

It was like an apocalypse, like everything ruined, like with bodies laying around.

Dan Alam told NPR that militants killed more than 100 people in his community,

a small-key butts in the south of Israel.

He lost neighbors, friends, the pain is overwhelming.

I'm just grieving for my friends, my parents' friends, my community,

so I just don't know how to deal with it, but we just know we've just been slaughtered

and know when he came to help us.

Another survivor, Neu Katzum, lost their brother in the attack.

It's tough days, we're sitting here, you know, it's seven days after the funeral.

Judaism, where you sit and do, like everyone comes and shares their condolences.

But for those whose loved ones haven't been identified,

that morning process may be on hold.

Consider this, forensic experts are still trying to identify hundreds of people

killed in Israel in the Hamas attacks.

Coming up, my visit to an army base in Israel where soldiers, medical examiners,

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