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00:03 - Popularity of soccer soars in the United States
00:07 ahead of the 23-24 season.
00:09 Again, I'll piggyback you with this, Rick.
00:11 Again, last night, Messi wins with Miami, scores again.
00:16 He is really at the forefront
00:20 of what you're talking about here,
00:21 especially everybody wanting to see him play for this team.
00:24 - Conundrum, he can't win for losing.
00:28 Guy scores nine goals, and those seven,
00:30 the argument is, well, he's playing
00:32 against high school students.
00:34 Well, that's fine, but he's sure doing
00:36 what he's supposed to do.
00:38 What else could the guy do?
00:39 - If he doesn't play well, it's well, he's getting too old,
00:41 like all these old guys that come over here for a buck.
00:44 That's not happening.
00:45 And so we have a sport that is clearly
00:48 the most popular on the planet.
00:50 It is here.
00:51 We could have done some different things
00:53 as far as build from the women's performance,
00:56 but we do have the Women's World Cup
00:58 and the Men's World Cup coming up
00:59 in three and a half to four years here.
01:02 And we also have three and a half billion people
01:05 watching soccer around the globe.
01:08 It's amazing.
01:09 - And you have the Women's World Cup final now set
01:13 with England and Spain coming up this weekend.
01:17 Unfortunately, no United States going to be there,
01:20 but it seems like, Rick,
01:22 I know they didn't get the same numbers
01:24 since the ladies have gone out,
01:26 but it still looks like it's gotten
01:28 a pretty decent amount of play,
01:30 at least here in the States, even with them out.
01:33 - If I'm getting up at four in the morning to watch,
01:35 it must be something significant.
01:37 And I'm not watching Americans.
01:38 I'm watching Tunisia and Morocco.
01:41 And so the spectacle controls.
01:44 But here's the other issue.
01:44 We can ponder it for tonight.
01:46 So United States has a team,
01:49 but England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland,
01:54 if that's the case, why don't we have Kansas,
01:57 Mississippi, Florida, New York?
02:00 We ought to get as many teams as that blooming country does.
02:04 It ain't fair.
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