The Lionel Messi-Barcelona Breakup

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the end of the Tokyo Olympics. They also discuss NFL players who’ve refused to get the COVID vaccine, and what the league should do about it. Finally, author Simon Kuper explains the tearful end of Lionel Messi’s brilliant career at F.C. Barcelona. Olympics (3:31): The troubled 2020 Olympics could reset how fans view athletes and the games. NFL (22:32): Kirk Cousins would rather surround himself with Plexiglas than get vaccinated. Lionel Messi (42:12): Why did it have to end this way? And what’s next for Messi and his longtime club? Afterball (57:53): Joel on the tiny countries that bagged Olympics hardware for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of August 9, 2021.
0:42.0	On this week's show, we'll wrap up our coverage of the Tokyo Olympics, which will be
0:46.8	remembered for a pandemic, brutal heat, gigantic financial losses, and some sports too.
0:53.0	We'll also talk about how the NFL is dealing with coronavirus vaccine
0:56.7	holdouts like Buffalo Bills epidemiologist Cole Beasley
1:01.0	and Minnesota Vikings public health expert Kirk Cousins.
1:05.0	Finally, we'll be joined by Simon Cooper, the author of the new book The Barcelona Complex,
1:10.0	to discuss the tearful end of Leonel Messy's storied career at the Spanish Football Club.
1:16.1	I'm the author of the book's Word Freak, A Few Second of Panic, and Wild and Outside, I'm in Washington,
1:22.2	D.C.
1:23.2	And so is Josh Levine.
1:24.6	He is Slates National Editor,
1:26.4	the author of The Queen, the host of Sloburn Season 4,
1:30.0	and also of the new podcast series one year
1:33.4	about various goings on in the one year of 1977.
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