The Last Cup: Part 2

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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From his earliest goals on the soccer fields of his hometown in Argentina to his arrival in Spain's Barça Football Club, host Jasmine Garsd follows the journey of a gifted kid who would go on to become one of the best. In Argentina, where the national sport is a fierce obsession, Lionel Messi was the one that got away.

As Garsd retraces Messi's early career, she examines the consequences of Argentina's devastating economic crisis of 2001, how it shaped Messi's path, and what it meant for her own life.

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0:00.0	The last cup is available in English and Spanish.
0:02.7	This is the English version.
0:04.7	Para escuchar la versión en español,
0:07.0	volué al fiz y seleccionar el episodio con el titulo en español.
0:11.6	And please note, this episode contains some explicit language
0:15.8	and the sounds of gunfire.
0:18.8	Our story starts in 2003 with a videotape.
0:23.0	A tape gets dropped off with the coach of Argentina's
0:25.9	under 17 National Soccer Team.
0:29.0	The coach's name is Uro Togali.
0:31.3	And what he sees on that video leaves him speechless.
0:34.8	I know you're feeling like that?
0:37.2	You know what I mean?
0:39.2	We had a video room all set up.
0:41.2	I put this tape on and it was like five plays.
0:44.4	In British, you know?
0:45.4	I was impressed.
0:48.9	Togali gets tapes like these all the time.
0:52.0	I mean his job, after all, is finding the best young soccer talent
0:55.7	in a country that is overflowing with soccer talent.
0:59.8	The teenager he sees on screen though
1:01.9	is an Argentine kid who plays in Barcelona.
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