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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hey guys, how's it going?
By the way, Team USA is doing great.
With the World Cup, they're doing great?
How many matches have they done with thetournament?
They won the first tournament game.
So now they're best 32.
Yeah, best 16 now.
Best 16.
And they are facing Belgium in 2-3 days.
And if they win against Belgium, now they're thebest 16?
Best 8, I think.
Best 8?
Have America ever gone that far?
I don't know.
Maybe not.
Maybe not?
Yeah.
That's great.
What do you think?
How strong is Belgium?
Belgium is a strong team.
Pretty strong team?
Yes.
There's a great chance that the U.S. could loseagainst Belgium?
Yeah.
Doesn't mean zero.
Yeah.
And also, Belgium used to be very, very strong.
But now some of the players got old.
Including the home-alone Kevin De Bruyne.
Oh yeah, the guy who looks like Kevin?
Yeah.
So those star players got old a bit.
No new star players?
Not many.
So you have a chance.
There's a chance still left.
Very high chance.
Oh, okay.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, okay.
And this morning I heard the news saying that theyhave Battle Gun.
That's the star striker of the Team USA.
He got a red card.
That means immediately you have to leave the game.
And also you have a suspension.
You can't join the game.
The next game.
The next?
Yeah.
Only one next game?
It depends on how serious the foul was or theregulations and everything.
But I think in this World Cup, one game.
Just one game.
Yeah, you miss one game.
So with Belgium, he's not going to be there.
But I don't know why I didn't see carefully,closely.
FIFA announced that Battle Gun is now allowed toplay against Belgium.
Why?
And then Trump, Mr. Trump said FIFA did the rightthings.
And that's what I said this morning.
And I was like, wow, what is going on?
What the hell?
So Battle Gun is going to play against Belgium.
Even though he got a red card.
I don't know what is going on.
What is this?
What is this?
Oh, God.
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Was it like an unfair red card?
Or was it like an obvious red card?
You didn't see the actual match?
I didn't see the red card scene.
It would make sense if it was like an obviousreferee mistake.
Yeah.
If it wasn't, you know, it's a Trump thing, Iwould say.
Yeah.
Yeah, but besides that, Team USA is doing verygood.
So far, so good.
Yeah, very good play.
Do you like how they're playing?
Yeah.
The tactics and everything?
Yeah, way more than I expected.
Oh, that's great.
Like, they're like fast.
They are accurate.
Energetic, obviously.
Yeah, way stronger than I expected.
That's great.
Yeah, maybe possible.
Who are you rooting for now?
Which country are you rooting for now?
You mean which country I think the winner will be?
Well, which country you'd want.
Oh, I see.
To win.
So from the beginning, I love Spain.
Spain?
Okay.
So it's not changed.
I'm for Spain.
Okay.
Is Spain still alive in the tournament?
Yeah.
Next round, Spain against Portugal.
Portugal.
With Cristiano.
Cristiano Ronaldo.
Who's the star player in Spain?
Lamin Yamal.
Oh, yes.
Pedri.
Oh, okay.
You know, I don't hear much of Lamin Yamalrecently in the social media.
I see a lot of Haaland.
I see a lot of Mbappé, but I don't hear Yamal.
True.
He's a bit calm.
Like Spain itself, they are like slow than Iexpect it.
Like they're not-
Their engines aren't full yet.
Yeah.
They're keeping their energy.
Or they're not that good.
But Yamal's in the game, right?
Yes, yes.
But yeah, so far, not yet.
Not yet perfect?
Yeah.
As a team, it's not, I don't know, like notfunctioning, I would say.
It's unfortunate.
Yeah.
Still, they're in the league tournament.
That's impressive.
It's impressive.
True.
Maybe they are now like accelerating.
Like boosting maybe?
Okay, okay.
We're not sure.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Argentina's strong with Messi.
Mm-hmm.
France, very strong.
Mbappé.
Mbappé.
With so many talents.
Like it feels like it's like a cheating.
It's like they're cheating?
Yeah.
Because they're so strong?
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Yeah.
Oh, man.
It's too strong.
They're too strong.
Yeah, it looks kind of scary.
You know, it is scary to imagine the Japanese teamfacing against France.
Like Mbappé, it's kind of scary.
Or like Holland.
Mm-hmm.
Where the guy's huge, right?
Yeah, huge.
The guy's huge.
He's-
Holland, huge.
Huge.
He's fast.
That's kind of scary to imagine that.
Yeah.
The Brazilian, Sentebac.
Mm-hmm.
He was huge.
Mm-hmm.
Strong.
Like he beat Japanese players.
It's like like that.
On that match, Holland.
He beat that guy.
Oh, man.
Head like that.
He's got an even stronger physique.
Yeah.
My god.
It's crazy.
That's scary.
How tall is-
How tall is he?
How tall is Holland?
Yeah.
Yeah, something like that.
He's one of the-
He's one of the taller ones, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In the game.
Yeah, yeah.
Man.
But the thing is like he's very fast.
Right.
I've seen him run with the ball.
Yeah.
Pretty scary.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The way he runs-
He runs like this.
I mean, yeah.
There's no like, I don't know.
There's no softness in the way he runs.
It's kind of like mechanic almost.
It's like a machine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But very fast.
And that makes it even more scarier.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Face.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm, yeah, I'm kind of, I'm putting a spotlight on-
Holland.
Yeah, Mr. Holland.
Good, good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's going to be a star.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.