The Last Cup: The Kid's Dream

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week we're bringing you something special from our friends at NPR and Futuro Media: the first episode of the podcast, The Last Cup. From his earliest goals on the soccer fields of his hometown in Argentina to his arrival at 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 soccer players ever. 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	Whether you're watching or not, the World Cup, the world's arguably biggest sporting event
0:05.3	is happening right now.
0:07.4	Last week, we brought you the story of how Qatar became the controversial site of this
0:11.6	year's games.
0:13.3	But we aren't quite ready to hang up our football cleats.
0:16.5	I mean, soccer cleats just yet.
0:19.7	So we're staying on the pitch a little longer.
0:22.0	And we're bringing you something special this week from NPR and our friends at Fuduro
0:26.4	Media, the first episode of the podcast, The Last Cup.
0:30.7	It's the story of one of the best players in the world, Lionel Messi, who's playing
0:35.1	his last World Cup in Qatar.
0:37.7	But it's also a story about Argentina, where he's from, and what it means to leave and come
0:43.5	home.
0:44.5	Before we turn it over to the Last Cup's host, Jasmine Garst, please note that the following
0:49.7	episode contains some explicit language and the sound of gunfire.
0:54.7	Our story starts in 2003 with a video tape.
0:58.7	A tape gets dropped off with the coach of Argentina's under 17 National Soccer Team.
1:04.9	The coach's name is Uootogali, and what he sees on that video leaves him speechless.
1:12.5	We had a video room all set up.
1:17.2	I put this tape on and it was like five plays.
1:20.3	In addition, huh?
1:21.3	It's impressed.
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