Why Everyone Seems to Hate Soccer’s New “Super League”

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Over the weekend, news broke that 12 of the biggest soccer teams from across Europe are attempting to break away and create their own “Super League.” The backlash was immediate and widespread, from politicians and royalty to fans across the world. Sam Borden joins the show to explain if the creation of the new league is even possible, and why it’s got the soccer world in an uproar. Then, Pablo shares the story of Gary Payton, a former NBA guard who doesn’t partake in cannabis at all, yet is the face of one of the most popular legal strains of marijuana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We got information about some secret talks for months, but we trusted people.
0:07.0	We might be naive, but for me it's always better to be naive than to be a liar.
0:13.0	It's unbelievable. I mean, it's so immoral everything that happened that it's hard to believe.
0:19.0	But obviously in football, everything is possible.
0:25.5	That is the voice of Alexander Sephir, President of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations,
0:34.4	reacting the way billions of people have to the nation's European Super League.
0:40.3	From players and fans to heads of state and actual royalty, rarely has an announcement
0:46.3	provoked such anger and such opposition, seemingly unified all around the world.
0:53.3	Today, Sam Borden breaks down the story that's set shockwaves across several continents,
0:59.8	and he explains what happens to the world's most popular sport from here.
1:05.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, April 20th.
1:10.0	This is ESPN Day.
1:16.5	Sam Borden, thank you for joining me, man.
1:18.6	Absolutely. Glad to be here, Pablo.
1:20.5	Sam Borden is a global sports correspondent for ESPN.
1:24.6	There's a lot to get to today.
1:26.3	I mean, we're talking about seismic news, Sam, in the world
1:29.6	of soccer that broke on Sunday when something called the European Super League got announced. And
1:35.5	I'm no expert in the way that you are, but from what I can tell, the entire continent of Europe
1:41.0	is furious, along with like four billion other soccer fans all around
1:45.5	the planet. And when I say furious, Sam, I mean, really, really, really intergalactically
1:51.4	pissed off about this. And I don't truly understand what's happening. So I needed to talk to
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