Season 2 · Episode 1
Jules Rimet still dreaming: how the World Cup became the biggest cultural event in history
The World Cup Podcast from The Independent
The Indy Football Podcast · The Independent
March 26, 202650m 16s
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Show Notes
For the first edition of our weekly Copa Independent podcast, we are looking at the very meaning of the World Cup itself, and the two sides of the biggest cultural event in human history. But why has it got to that level? Why does it feel like nothing else in sport? Has it fulfilled the ideals of its creators? What would Jules Rimet, who envisioned a competition to bring mankind together, think of how it is now politically used?
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