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Episode: The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett
Description: The World Cup is coming to the U.S (and Canada, and Mexico) in less than 100 days.
Perhaps you’re an American who doesn’t care about soccer, and has given this news zero thought. That won’t be an option when the games arrive, says Roger Bennett. The CEO of the Men in Blazers podcast network — and author of “We Are the World (Cup)”, a personal history of the tournament — tells me this won’t be like anything we’ve seen here; even for old timers like me, who can remember the 1994 edition, which the U.S. also hosted.<...