The Last Cup: Messi’s Final Shot
Anything For Selena
WBUR & Futuro Studios
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience.
Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer player of his generation, but there’s one dream he’s never achieved: winning a World Cup for Argentina, the country he left decades ago.
What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long?
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| 0:30.0 | Hello! |
| 0:32.0 | Anything for Selena listeners! |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Maria Garcia, your host and the executive editor of Futuro Studios. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm back to introduce you to another podcast, my friends at WBUR, and I think you're going to love. |
| 0:48.0 | It's called The Last Cup by NPR and Futuro Studios. |
| 0:52.0 | And this podcast is about soccer superstar Lionel Messi. |
| 0:57.0 | He's been called the greatest sports player in the world. |
| 1:01.0 | But there's one thing he's never been able to do when a world cup for Argentina, his country of birth. |
| 1:10.0 | You see, Messi left Argentina as a young boy. |
| 1:13.0 | He went to Spain to train and he became the biggest star in the world while he was in Europe. |
| 1:18.0 | But he's always tried to come back and win a victory for Argentina. |
| 1:23.0 | Yet, every time he's tried, something has gone wrong. |
| 1:28.0 | Some people think the team is cursed. |
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