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Libero 029: Argentina And The Pie Of Football Mystique

Libero

Libero

Soccer, Sports, Society & Culture

4.9869 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Another summer, another tournament enlivened by marauding hordes of Argentina fans taking over beaches and shopping centres. On today’s Libero, Miguel Delaney, Rory Smith and Jonathan Wilson discuss what it is that makes Argentinian football culture so passionate and so appealing to outsiders, whether we overlook the reality of it in favour of the romance, and whether its allure is really a measure of our anxiety over the sanitised, commercial world of European football. James Horncastle dials in, too, to offer his thoughts after experiencing the imported South American atmosphere in Miami, and we contemplate the impact of conflict in Iran on next year’s World Cup (50:05). Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in at liberopodcast0@gmail.com Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Libero. I'm Rory Smith, and we'll get on with the show in a moment, but I just wanted to

0:04.0

remind you that not only can you listen to this show on Apple and Spotify and all of the other

0:08.8

podcast platforms, but really hardcore listeners, but you can also watch us on YouTube if you want to.

0:14.6

You can also rate, review, like and subscribe in all those places, and doing so helps us to reach

0:20.3

more people. And that helps us

0:22.8

strike a blow against what I can only describe as the ongoing making stupidification of football

0:27.9

discourse. And that helps us, but it also helps you and your children and your children's

0:32.9

children. So it's probably worth a minute of your time.

0:42.4

So, this is episode 29 of Libero, the podcast about the least important of the least important things, as Marcella Lippey once said. And I'm joined, I think, for the second time in a row,

0:46.6

by Jonathan Wilson and Midell Delaney. And for one of you, this is quite a big week, because

0:51.6

Miguel, you're getting a train.

0:56.3

Yes, to Jonathan Wilson's wedding.

0:59.6

So Jonathan Wilson's wedding. We've just been talking about table plans.

1:03.0

Me and Miguel are on separate tables, but we wanted to check that we were okay with that and we didn't want to move it around at this late date.

1:05.5

Jonathan, tell us what your tables are named after.

1:08.1

There's 11 tables, which you don't look a gift horse like that in the mouth.

1:12.9

So they're named after the hungry team of 1953, he beat England, 6'3 at Wembley. I'm on the top

1:18.6

table, obviously, grossish, and then you'll be go through from Buzanski to Sheebor. So you're on

1:24.3

number eight, Coxish, and Moose. As you requested, you're on number nine Hiddikiti.

1:29.8

I feel like that is the best name table to have.

1:33.1

What is the top table called Grossish?

1:35.4

Yeah, the goalkeeper.

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