The Last Cup: Lionel Messi's Dream

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🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Lionel Messi is considered one of the greatest soccer players of all time. An Argentine by birth, he rose to stardom playing in Europe. Messi has won almost every accolade possible for a professional soccer player–save one–the World Cup. He's never been able to lead his Argentine national team to victory and he says this year's competition will be his final attempt.

In The Last Cup, a new bilingual podcast series from NPR and Futuro Studios, NPR's Jasmine Garsd looks at how Messi has wrestled with the disappointment of the home crowd after each devastating World Cup loss. Over time, his connection to his own country has been questioned after spending time abroad. Garsd, an immigrant from Argentina herself asks: What can Messi's story tell us about the cost of leaving home, and the struggle to return?

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel and before we get started with today's episode, I have a couple of questions
0:05.9	for you.
0:06.9	Thanksgiving, obviously, is coming up.
0:09.5	Millions of us are about to travel home.
0:12.3	Whatever that means, wherever that is, in the next couple of weeks, maybe you are getting
0:17.1	ready to reunite with family.
0:19.2	Maybe it's the first time after almost three years of the pandemic.
0:22.6	Okay, so here are my questions.
0:24.9	How has your idea of family changed?
0:28.2	Who do you consider or choose as family?
0:31.6	And for those of you who feel especially far away from home in these times, how have you
0:35.7	found community and belonging where you are?
0:39.5	If you've got some words of wisdom to share or a story, I would love to hear it.
0:44.2	You can send us a voice memo at upfirstsundayatnpr.org.
0:49.2	Again, up first Sunday, all one word, at npr.org.
0:54.5	We're excited and by Tuesday night, if you can, and we might include you in our next episode.
0:58.6	Okay, now to the show.
1:04.4	It's hard to put Lionel Messi's soccer career into words, so let's cue the tape.
1:09.4	It's Messi!
1:10.4	Oh, it's not.
1:12.4	It's not.
1:13.4	It's not.
	...

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