HeyJaredAhead Of The Game
It’s been 36 years since Canada played in a men’s FIFA World Cup tournament. This November, they’re back on soccer’s biggest stage. What did it take to get to this point? Who made it happen? And what are they up against?
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No man is an island: Roy Keane and the World Cup walkout that split a nation (opens the original)
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When Roy Keane walked out of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup training camp on the remote island of Saipan, it wasn’t just a star player quitting a squad; it was a country fracturing in real time. This episode of Pitch and Power traces how a fight between a generational player and a team manager became a prism through which modern Ireland negotiated its history and its future. It examines why Keane’s insistence on professionalism split public opinion along familiar lines and how that rupture amplified q
Cash, coups and the fragile rise of African soccer (opens the original)
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A chartered jet, $3 million in cash, and a player kissing a stack of bills on the tarmac in Brazil. Ghana’s 2014 World Cup bonus crisis wasn’t an isolated fiasco; it was a flashpoint in a larger story about how empire, economics and harmful stereotypes have shaped the arc of African soccer on the world stage. This episode traces the history of African nations at World Cups, from Zaire’s traumatic 1974 campaign under Joseph Mobutu to Cameroon’s joyous shock in 1990 and Ghana’s heartbreak in 2010.
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