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Kurning cultures Football fans will know these sounds well.

Hope, anguish, screaming at the top of your lungs from sheer happiness.

That emotional roller coaster we all love the sport for.

And as the over one billion people watching the games will know, today we're into the semifinals

of the 2018 World Cup. So we thought it was fitting to share a story with you about one team's

path to what was their first World Cup in 28 years.

This story, by the way, was actually first suggested to us by some of our listeners.

So thank you, Casey family, for kicking off our first sports story.

Yes, pun intended.

Today on Cunning Culture is a special mid-month episode for a special look into the

Egyptian National Team's Road to the World Cup. The Egyptian national team, by the way, is

affectionately called the Pharaohs. I'm Hibba Fisher and you're listening to Kurning Cultures,

radio documentaries from the Middle East. Today's story is brought to us by producer

Alex Aetak. In recent years, there's been this idea going around amongst football fans that the

Egyptian national team is cursed. They haven't qualified for a World Cup since 1990. I mean,

they've come close a handful of times, but not close enough. Then, in 2011, they brought on a new coach.

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