The Magic of Messi
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🗓️ 11 October 2014
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Argentina and Croatia face off in the World Cup semifinals today, and all eyes are on Lionel Messi. At 35, Messi is trying to put a cap on a legendary career and bring a World Cup championship to his home country.
How did he get to the top of the soccer world? And what will be his legacy if Argentina loses?
Guest: Jasmine Garsd Garcia, host of NPR’s soccer podcast “The Last Cup.”
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| 0:34.7 | Jasmine is that she loves soccer. I don't know what it is with soccer. I consider myself |
| 0:40.8 | a very like rational scientific person and when the World Cup rolls around I |
| 0:46.7 | just become just this extremely obsessive like super-suiting. obsessive, like superstitious, I can't say certain things and I have to wear, it's bizarre, |
| 1:00.0 | I just morph into another person. |
| 1:02.4 | As she does every World Cup, I just morph into another person. |
| 1:03.0 | As she does every World Cup, |
| 1:05.4 | Jasmine is rooting for Argentina, her home country. |
| 1:09.1 | When she says she's superstitious, she means it. |
| 1:12.0 | She's got trouble watching the game if it's too close. And she also has these |
| 1:16.0 | lucky socks she wears when Argentina's playing. They've got avocados on them. It's a little |
| 1:21.9 | unclear how these socks work. |
| 1:24.0 | Like when we played against Mexico, I wore one lucky sock. |
| 1:33.0 | Just one? |
| 1:34.0 | Because we were coming off the Saudi game. |
| 1:36.0 | Argentina lost when they played Saudi Arabia early on. |
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