Simultaneous Group Finales! Simultaneous VAR Craziness! Plus Nike's Pete Hoppins on Those Amazing Nigeria Kits

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Grant and Brian break down the dramatic Group B finales as Iran almost takes out Portugal late, but Spain and Portugal end up advancing. Then Grant is joined by Pete Hoppins, the senior design director for Nike football apparel, who tells the fascinating story of the design for Nigeria's wildly popular World Cup kits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast World Cup Daily. Day 12 of World Cup 2018 is done.
0:08.5	Brian Strauss and I will be talking about that as part of our podcast coming to you daily from Russia through July 16th.
0:15.5	Just a small request, it would be a huge help if you subscribe, rate, and review our podcast.
0:20.9	It helps people find us. In this episode I'm also joined by Pete
0:24.4	Hopkins, the senior design director for Nike football apparel, to talk about
0:28.6	Nike's wildly popular design of Nigeria's World Cup kits.
0:32.8	Onward!
0:35.8	Let's bring it Brian Strauss who is back in Moscow after a few days in Nijni,
0:41.6	and you're in your hotel. How are you doing Brian? I just I'm sweaty. Like that was just an incredible that was two hours of punches in the stomach watching those two games or one
0:55.9	game at a time flipping back and forth and losing your mind that was that was
1:00.4	insane so I'm kind of running around like an idiot right now. I mean just
1:04.0	a fascinating evening with very late dramatics, simultaneous games obviously
1:11.8	in the group finales group beat tonight had Morocco against Spain and Iran against Portugal
1:20.4	simultaneous VAR calls very determinant calls, late in this game, made things absolutely insane.
1:29.0	In Iran against Portugal, you had a VAR call that gave Iran a penalty which was converted.
1:37.0	Iran equalized at one at the exact same time as VAR gave Spain a goal deservedly and made it 2-2 in their game against
1:49.2	Morocco and then Iran had a chance to eliminate Portugal and put the ball in the side netting,
1:56.4	which is absolutely crazy.
1:58.4	Yeah, it was not.
1:58.9	I missed, I saw the goal by AFSCAS in Spain, which was sensational what a goal I once scored a goal
2:06.2	like that in a game really early on and the other team got annoyed and beat my
2:10.8	team 7 to 1 so but he did it at the end and that was awesome.
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