The World Cup Begins
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Tifo team discuss the off-field, controversial issues surrounding the tournament, as well as Gianni Infantino's press conference on the eve the World Cup's opening day. Then, attention turns to Qatar's opening game with Ecuador.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Joe Devine, and I'm delighted to be joined here today by J.J. Bull. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello, Joe. |
| 0:11.0 | Seb Stafford Bloor. |
| 0:11.9 | Hello, Joe. |
| 0:12.7 | And John McKenzie. |
| 0:14.5 | John the dog, McKenzie. |
| 0:15.8 | Well, John the dog, McKenzie, I was being polite to you today. |
| 0:18.1 | Okay. |
| 0:18.4 | There we go. |
| 0:19.2 | Anyway, it is the opening day of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, 2022. |
| 0:25.0 | A moment long waited, I suppose. |
| 0:27.7 | We've been talking about this for a really long time. |
| 0:29.6 | It's here now. |
| 0:30.3 | We've just finished watching the Qatar Ecuador game, |
| 0:33.7 | which we're going to spend some time talking about today. |
| 0:36.4 | But of course, also there are other issues to discuss, and we'll do that too. As well as a return of points are bad, the presumably probably the thing people were most looking forward to... The beloved game. I think about that all the time. Do you actually... This is the first time I've thought about it since. I occasionally find myself singing the theme dude. Yeah. Every night and I did. It's not doing that recently, actually. Yeah. It's kind of, it's stuck on my, yeah, it's like a part of my muscle memory around tournament. Sure. It's become a part of you. Sure has. Yeah. Okay. Well, anyway, that's what we'll be talking about today. But before we kick off, I would love to |
| 1:12.5 | remind people that if you are not already a subscriber to the athletic, I would highly encourage you |
| 1:16.8 | to do so. There's been some exceptional coverage of the World Cup so far. I'm sure over the next month |
| 1:22.3 | or so, we can point towards some of the individual pieces. Simon Hughes's piece on Nepal in particular, and I read this, it was very, very good. Very good. So we'll take the opportunity to do that throughout the tournament. I believe there's currently a deal running to. I can't remember exactly what that is. But if you visit theathletic.com forward slash Tifo, theathletic.com forward slash Tifo, then you'll be able to avail yourselves of that delight. |
| 1:44.9 | But for the time being, I suppose I would just leave you in the warm hands and the cool embrace |
| 1:49.3 | of Gianni Infantina. Who else? Who else would I leave you in the warm hands? Because of course |
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