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Trump Called FIFA And It Actually Worked | La Casa No Gana Episode #97 · The House Never Wins

• 0:00
  - Let's ask
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  - the big
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  - question, Pau.
• 0:04
  - Is FIFA
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  - actually losing control of his own tournament? What
• 0:09
  - do you think?
• 0:11
  - What's up, everyone?
• 0:12
  - Welcome back to another
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  - episode of La Casa Nogana where football
• 0:17
  - is only half the story. Yes. Because somehow
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  - this football cup keeps getting crazier
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  - every single day. Hi, Pau.
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  - Hi, Fabi. And today's episode has a little
• 0:31
  - bit of everything. We'll recap the biggest round
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  - of 16 games. Talk about one of the
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  - most controversial tournaments FIFA has ever organized
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  - and finished by previewing two absolutely massive quarterfinals.
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  - So let's do it.
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  - Exactly. Let's talk about the round of 16.
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  - Let's start with Colombia versus Ghana. Oh my
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  - god. Let's start with Colombia.
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  - Another
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  - professional
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  - performance.
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  - They control
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  - possession,
• 1:00
  - defended well, and once again show why
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  - so many people, Pau, are calling them one
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  - of the most complete teams left in this
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  - tournament.
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  - Yes. What impresses me the most is their
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  - maturity.
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  - They are not trying to entertain everyone.
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  - They are trying to win football matches,
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  - and that's exactly what championship teams do.
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  - Exactly. They are balanced,
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  - organized, and incredibly
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  - dangerous under on the counterattack.
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  - This team believed
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  - they can go
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  - all the way. Now Argentina,
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  - Cabo Verde.
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  - Yes. Now let's talk about everyone's favorite Cinderella
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  - story,
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  - Cabo Verde. Nobody expected them to get this
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  - far. They became one of the biggest surprises
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  - of the tournament.
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  - Yes. And although
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  - Argentina eventually
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  - advanced and Cabo Verde earned it a lot
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  - of respect,
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  - they defend
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  - bravely,
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  - play without
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  - any fear, and prove
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  - debut on
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  - on the biggest stage foul.
• 2:14
  - Yes. Argentina moved on, but this wasn't nearly
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  - as comfortable as many people predicted.
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  - Exactly. Now let's talk about Portugal and Croatia.
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  - Portugal
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  - survive.
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  - But wow. I mean, Croatia made them work
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  - for every single minute.
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  - Yes. Classic Croatia,
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  - discipline,
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  - experience,
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  - impossible
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  - to break down.
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  - Even after generation change, they somehow keep producing
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  - tournament football.
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  - Portugal
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  - eventually
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  - show it, but they know further tests
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  - are coming. Now Spain,
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  - Yes. Spain looked very Spain.
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  - Thousands of passes.
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  - Complete control.
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  - Patience.
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  - Yes. Austria defended well for long stages, but
• 3:10
  - eventually,
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  - Spain possession
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  - became
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  - too much.
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  - Maybe they still aren't the most exciting team,
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  - but they're becoming one of the hardest team
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  - to beat. Let's start with the biggest headline
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  - of this week.
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  - Following Volgun
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  - received
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  - the straight red card against Bosnia.
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  - Simple automatic suspension.
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  - End of the story.
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  - Or so,
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  - everyone thought.
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  - Yes, Wavi. Except it wasn't.
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  - So according to Reuters and the associate press,
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  - president Donald Trump personally contact FIFA,
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  - president Gianni Fantino asking for the suspension to
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  - be reviewed.
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  - So not the US Soccer Federation,
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  - not the coaching staff,
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  - the president.
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  - Oh my god. And then FIFA overturned the
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  - suspension
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  - under the article 27
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  - of the disciplinary
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  - code.
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  - Valagon became eligible to play against Belgium.
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  - Whether the decision was technical allowed isn't really
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  - the issue.
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  - The issue is
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  - perception, Paul.
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  - Exactly, Fabi. If you're Belgium
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  - or Brazil or Argentina,
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  - you are probably
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  - asking,
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  - would our president get the same treatment?
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  - Once politics enters disciplinary
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  - decision,
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  - people immediately
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  - begin questioning
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  - fairness.
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  - Yes. And that's why this became one of
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  - the biggest stories of the entire
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  - tournament. Oh my god. Now the bar.
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  - But even
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  - more bar though?
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  - Yes. Then came the rule changes.
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  - This cup introduced one of the biggest officiating
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  - updates
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  - we've ever seen.
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  - Barr now reviews second yellow card. So
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  - mistaken
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  - identity, disciplinary incidents before goals, plus new time
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  - wasting
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  - procedures.
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  - I mean, Pau, on paper on paper, most
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  - of these changes actually
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  - make sense.
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  - The problem,
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  - nobody seems to understand them. Not the players,
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  - not the coaches,
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  - sometimes
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  - not even the commentators.
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  - Yes. Every match felt like there was a
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  - new rule nobody has heard about before.
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  - So and instead of people talking about football,
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  - they were talking about referee explanations.
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  - That's never never a good sign.
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  - Exactly. And have you noticed
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  - something else, Pau?
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  - Nobody is scared of penalties
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  - anymore.
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  - Seriously.
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  - Germany goes out. The Netherlands go out. Australia
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  - loses one.
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  - Every knockout round seems to have another shutout.
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  - Exactly. Managers
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  - aren't trying to avoid the penalties anymore.
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  - They are planning for them. They are saving
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  - substitutions,
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  - bringing on a specialist as goalkeepers.
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  - What?
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  - Bringing on penalty takers.
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  - Oh my god.
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  - Yes.
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  - Has basically become chess.
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  - Survive for a hundred twenty minutes. They hope
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  - you your goalkeeper becomes a national
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  - hero.
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  - Oh my god.
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  - What's crazy
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  - is
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  - the controversies
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  - start before a ball was even kicked.
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  - Visa issues, Bobby.
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  - Travel delays. Supporters
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  - unsure whether they've been allowed
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  - into host countries.
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  - Delegation
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  - dealing
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  - with paperwork.
• 7:11
  - I mean, hosting a tournament across three countries
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  - was always going to be difficult,
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  - but it
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  - exposed just how complicated
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  - international
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  - logistics
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  - can become. Instead
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  - of discussing, for example,
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  - lineups,
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  - people were discussing
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  - immigration
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  - rules, Pau.
• 7:34
  - Yes.
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  - Every football cap needs one giant offset.
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  - This one,
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  - Norway eliminating
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  - Brazil.
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  - Yes. It hurts and nobody expected.
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  - Brazil were one of the favorites.
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  - Norway
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  - came in as an underdog.
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  - Then suddenly,
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  - Brazil
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  - are packing their bags.
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  - That's why knockout football is so brutal.
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  - Ninety minutes about one mistake
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  - and everything you build over four years
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  - disappear.
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  - Yes.
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  - And now one thing we've learned,
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  - football never exist in a vacuum.
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  - Immigration,
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  - security,
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  - government involvement,
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  - diplomatic discussions,
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  - and they all become part of the tournament.
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  - Normally, we said, keep politics out of sports.
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  - But the reality is hosting
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  - the biggest
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  - sporting event on earth makes that almost
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  - impossible, pal. This football cup has proven that
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  - once politic enter the conversation,
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  - it's impossible to ignore.
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  - Now
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  - let's ask the big question, Pau.
• 8:57
  - Is FIFA
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  - actually losing control of his own tournament? What
• 9:03
  - do you think?
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  - Oh my god. That's a huge question because
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  - when you combine everything,
• 9:09
  - the ballogon controversy,
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  - the constant referee debates,
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  - the confusing rule changes, political pressure, appeals from
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  - federations,
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  - it starts creating
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  - a perception
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  - problem.
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  - That's the truth.
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  - Yes. And maybe every individual
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  - decision can be explained, but together,
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  - they've
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  - made fans wonder
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  - whether the rules are being applied equally,
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  - and that's dangerous
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  - because true is much harder to recover than
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  - a bad referee
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  - decision.
• 9:45
  - Now let's talk about the quarter final preview,
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  - Pau. France versus Morocco. Before we go, let's
• 9:52
  - look ahead.
• 9:53
  - France versus Morocco. What a matchup. Oh my
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  - god.
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  - Yes. My favorite France, obviously, and France probably
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  - has the most talent squad remaining.
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  - But Morocco has become one of those teams
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  - nobody wants to play.
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  - Compact defensively,
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  - physically strong,
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  - and so dangerous on the break.
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  - Yes. If France scores
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  - early,
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  - this could become comfortable.
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  - But if Morocco survive the first hour, this
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  - could get very
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  - interesting, Pau.
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  - Yes. I'm completely
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  - agree. And now let's talk about Norway versus
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  - England.
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  - I'm so sad about England, but okay. It's
• 10:40
  - okay. Bye bye, Mexico. Now Oh, Milan.
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  - This might actually be my favorite game of
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  - the quarterfinals,
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  - Fabi. Norway has already shocked Brazil.
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  - Now they get England. England always arrives carrying
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  - enormous expectations
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  - and Norway's arrive carrying absolutely
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  - no pressure and sometimes that the most dangerous
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  - thing.
• 11:09
  - Yes. And if Helen gets space, England could
• 11:12
  - be in serious trouble.
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  - But if England controls possessions and keeps Norway
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  - from running in transition,
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  - their individual quality should see them through.
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  - Yes. Either way,
• 11:26
  - this has upset
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  - riding all over it.
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  - Yes. So
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  - this football club keeps
• 11:35
  - providing
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  - one thing. You never know what's coming next.
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  - We had giant upsets, political controversial,
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  - rule changes, penalty drama, and now the quarter
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  - finals are
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  - here. And if the round of 16 was
• 11:54
  - this crazy, imagine
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  - what's still to come.
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