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The Sweetest Story Behind the Boy Who Wore the Santa Sweater for World Cup · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: All right, this is the cutest portion of the show
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  Speaker 1: right now. This is the segment of cute, the slice
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  Speaker 1: of cute. We were telling you. There's a little story.
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  Speaker 1: It's gone viral. A little boy supporting Mexico at the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup and he wore something totally unexpected because he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to fit in.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, he didn't have a Mexico jersey, and he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to wear green, red and white, which are the
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  Speaker 2: colors of the Mexican flag. And so he looked in
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  Speaker 2: his closet and all he had was a Christmas sweater.
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  Speaker 2: And the Christmas sweater is green and it has Santos
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  Speaker 2: on the front, and it's the exact colors, and he says,
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  Speaker 2: I just I just wanted to wear the colors of
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  Speaker 2: the flag and that's all I had. And the picture
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  Speaker 2: has now gone viral because you see all the other
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  Speaker 2: little kids, they're all wearing jerseys and he has the sweater.
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  Speaker 2: So now that I went viral. Santiago Jimenez on the
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  Speaker 2: Mexico's team saw it and gave him a personalized jersey
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  Speaker 2: and Aweso cooked him up with merch and love it.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Mexican national team also joined in. He
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  Speaker 2: sent a personal message to him. The rest of the
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  Speaker 2: team send videos and messages to him, and he's been
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  Speaker 2: now interviewed on like certain like morning shows in Mexico
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. And the mom said like this
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  Speaker 2: was all him. Like, she's like, I did not suggest that. No,
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  Speaker 2: she did not suggest it that. She's like he went in.
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  Speaker 2: He just said, these are the colors of the flag,
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  Speaker 2: and this is all I got and I'm wearing it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a future. Thank you for that segment of
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  Speaker 1: cute Santy. Big things are gonna happen for you.
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