Why Everyone Cares About This World Cup
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 29 June 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Messy running inside. |
| 0:03.8 | Back out it goes. |
| 0:05.7 | Lino Messi. |
| 0:06.9 | Lino Messi! |
| 0:11.8 | First career World Cup hat trick |
| 0:14.2 | ties the all-time goal-scoring record. |
| 0:18.5 | From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow-F. |
| 0:21.7 | This is the Daily. |
| 0:23.6 | And there it is. |
| 0:25.7 | Erling Harlem-Haldon meets the World Cup. |
| 0:28.7 | The World Cup meets Erling Holland. |
| 0:31.5 | Two weeks into the World Cup, the most watched sports event on the planet has already broken records. |
| 0:40.3 | Brilliant from Mbapé, brilliant, France lead, magical, |
| 0:43.3 | hitting its highest attendance ever and generating the most goals scored in history. |
| 0:50.3 | But one of the biggest stories of the tournament is happening off the field. I feel like I've been lied to my entire life about America. |
| 0:58.2 | Like, I'm in Florida. |
| 1:00.3 | This beach is insane. |
| 1:02.3 | Like, just as good as Australian beaches. |
| 1:04.5 | As a wave of international visitors encounter in America they'd never seen up close. |
| 1:10.2 | How do you think of America in Texas? |
| 1:12.7 | Texas is good. |
| 1:13.9 | Everything is big. |
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