The Football Ramble’s Guide To… The first ever World Cup
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The World Cup is still brilliant, but it’s got its problems. And yet the issues we face today aren’t as confusing and downright obscene as those faced by the thirteen teams who competed in the first ever World Cup.
There was - we stress - some truly outrageous moments. Teams and fans missed their steamboats there, brawls erupted on the pitches and in the stands, kings picked some of the teams and a defeat in the final incited a literal military coup.
Marcus, Luke, Andy and Pete are your insightful tour guides!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to the football Rambles Guide 2. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Luke Moore. I'm Adi Grassel and I'm the very first Pete Donaldson. |
| 0:13.0 | It's Argentiner. King is a football for the third time. |
| 0:19.0 | The World Cup is the duel in football's crown. Billions watch it, millions travel to it. Billions are spent on it. |
| 0:27.0 | It's the most popular sporting event on the planet. |
| 0:47.0 | But it wasn't always this way. Just over 90 years ago, the first edition of the World Cup was held in Uruguay. |
| 0:53.0 | After football was kicked off the program at the Olympics, the newly formed Gatekeepers of Football FIFA decided to act fast with a new competition. |
| 1:01.0 | What followed was an extraordinary spectacle of chaos, brawling and remarkable individual stories. |
| 1:07.0 | From Uruguay's one-armed superstar to Romania's midfielder who came back from the dead, these stories have to be heard to be believed. |
| 1:15.0 | So settling because this is the football Rambles Guide 2, the first ever World Cup. |
| 1:24.0 | Greetings, one at all. Here we are with a guide that my guidi aunt throws up some stories. |
| 1:35.0 | There it is. And for those younger listeners, just to put this to bed right now, no me and Andy do not remember this story. |
| 1:42.0 | My nan was 18. Well, she was only a baby in arms. |
| 1:48.0 | This week marks 93 years since the very first World Cup began in 1930. |
| 1:53.0 | That's the big one. |
| 1:56.0 | Do you get a telegram from the Queen? |
| 1:59.0 | Do you get a telegram from the Queen? |
| 2:02.0 | She's passed on Peter. |
| 2:04.0 | Well, you might as well do. It's quite a big deal. |
| 2:06.0 | Well, Andy, the World Cup was first set up by FIFA president Jules Remitt. |
| 2:13.0 | Well, Jules Remitt, as you may know him, he was inspired by the success of Olympic football tournaments and Olympic football tournaments continued to inspire us of course. |
| 2:24.0 | Football was going to be dropped from the Olympics in 1932. So big Jules saw a gap in the market. |
| 2:32.0 | Because it was a big deal on 24 and 28, right? |
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