The Last Cup: Part 3

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Lionel Messi finally gets a chance to put on Argentina's national jersey, but something is off. His time abroad has fundamentally changed the way he plays. Things get even more complicated when the Argentine soccer legend, Diego Maradona, becomes coach of Messi's 2010 World Cup team. With Messi under increasing scrutiny, the hometown crowd begins to question if he can ever get out from under Maradona's shadow.

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0:00.0	The last cup is available in English and in Spanish.
0:04.5	This is the English version.
0:06.8	Para escuchar la versión en español, boluel, fido y selecciona el episodio con el título
0:12.2	en español.
0:13.8	A warning before we start this episode, today's story contains explicit language.
0:20.4	The first signs of trouble appeared very early on.
0:23.9	Well, so soon as Leonel Messi began playing with Argentina on the under 20 national squad.
0:36.1	He was 16.
0:42.2	Remember in the last episode, I told you about that friendly match between Argentina and
0:46.8	Paraguay?
0:47.8	Okay, so that was Messi's introduction into the high stakes world of Argentine international
0:54.8	soccer.
0:58.3	He scored a fantastic goal.
1:00.3	He made a big splash, but something was off.
1:09.4	Gerardo Bosalorio, aka El Profe, the professor, was Messi's trainer in that under 20 national
1:16.0	Argentina team.
1:17.8	He was there at that game when Messi scored his first goal.
1:27.8	After three years of training abroad, Saludio says, yes, he played like an extra terrestrial.
1:33.4	He was just amazing.
1:35.5	But something was missing.
1:37.0	The edge, the passion, the punk rock, which makes Latin American soccer so unique.
1:44.4	I told him, here, if you don't run, they're going to kill you.
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