The Fifth Floor: For the love of football
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Why is football such a universal language? Three BBC World Service journalists and football fans - Matias Zibell Garcia, Pooria Jafereh and Njoroge Muigai – explain what the game mean to their audiences in Argentina, Iran and Kenya, and look ahead at the summer season. Plus, Tamara Ebiwei from BBC Pidgin on why Nigerian players have to learn a new national anthem.
Produced by Alice Gioia and Caroline Ferguson.
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | This is |
| 0:05.0 | You're |
| 0:08.0 | You're actually |
| 0:09.0 | the fifth floor. |
| 0:10.0 | The fifth floor de noosos fifth floor in Newseus. |
| 0:14.0 | We see me as well. |
| 0:15.0 | To me have this fifth floor |
| 0:17.0 | fornak and me disobad. |
| 0:21.0 | This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC |
| 0:26.2 | journalists from all around the world. I'm your host Parenak Amid. No matter what language you speak or where you are in the world, I bet that you'll immediately recognize these sounds. |
| 0:46.5 | Even if you're not into football, you've probably ended up watching it, or have been around people watching it. |
| 0:57.0 | And you probably know the name of at least one football team or a player. |
| 1:02.0 | Football truly is a universal language and for millions of people around the |
| 1:07.2 | world the next few months will be very exciting with tournaments like |
| 1:12.1 | Copa America and the euros kicking off in just a few weeks. |
| 1:17.0 | As for me, I am not a football fan at all, but on this episode of the fifth floor floor I'm joined by three of my colleagues from the |
| 1:25.0 | BBC World Service who will try and help me understand what this game means for their audiences |
| 1:31.6 | around the world and you never know I might be a changed |
| 1:34.8 | person after this conversation. So the team helping me understand football and |
| 1:40.4 | its importance is Mathias S Sebel Garcia from BBC Mundo, |
| 1:45.0 | Puyajofre from BBC Persian, |
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