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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Yeah, so on social media, I see a lot of dramaaround the Korean team, World Cup team.
How they're not, you know, how the coaches kindof, there's a friction between...
Oh, the players?
Maybe the players or the, you know, the citizensof Korea maybe.
The coach is getting a lot of hate for how...
I'm not too deep in this, but like, you know,coaches kind of like yelling and...
Oh, to the players?
Yeah, without much understanding.
Oh, I see.
No?
Any...
Yeah, sadly I haven't deeply seen it yet.
Okay.
But I know the head coach was a former player,like a professional, like national team player.
홍명보상, I think.
Okay, okay.
That's what I know.
That's okay.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe it's just...
Yeah.
But, yeah, I think they've eliminated from thetournament, sadly.
Well, I think they have pretty good players.
Some of the attackers were very nice, but sadly...
Also, I'm not too deep into this as well, butKorea kind of criticized Japan for not
helping Korea win the tournament.
What do you mean?
Okay.
It was a random claim that they started saying inthe Japanese.
We're like, what the hell?
Okay.
Like, what are you talking about?
Because we're in completely different groups,and...
Oh, I see.
I guess...
Yeah, so first of all, it's a random criticizing.
It's just nothing.
Nothing logical.
Yeah, nothing logical.
But I think if we won against Sweden in, I don'tknow, like many points, I don't know,
like 5-0 or something like that, then maybe theSweden team will, you know, they'll be
the third in the group.
Right.
And then Korea is also in the third.
Like, out of the third, there's going to be somepeople that's going to be in the tournament.
Yeah.
I see.
That's why...
So it's like a trade-off with Sweden and Korea.
Yeah.
If Japan had a different result.
I think so.
Okay.
That's a wild claim.
Very wild claim.
Yeah.
And also, Sweden finished the first rank of thethird-ranked group.
Okay.
They were the first, the strongest team in thethird-ranked group.
I see.
I don't think it would have changed that much.
Yeah.
Right.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Okay.
But it's true.
I've heard Korea was in the very edge of the...
Right.
Like the borderline between in and out of thetournament.
True.
So if Sweden lost against Japan, maybe thekachiten will change and...
Yeah, I don't know.
But...
I don't know.
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But...
Right.
Yeah.
Because a tie would give you one point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then a lose would give you zero points.
Exactly.
So maybe...
Yeah.
But we were fighting for ourselves.
Right.
Seeing the next round against Brazil, so...
Yeah.
Right.
We had decent reason to...
Keep that 1-1.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Makes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
I understand.
Yeah.
I understand.
True.
Like this time in this tournament, like Asianteams were not doing well.
I would say African teams are doing very well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But Asian team, I think Japan and...
Yeah, not many countries were qualified, I think.
Yeah, like I saw a picture, like a meme picture onthe internet.
How different continents...
Asia, only Japan is strong and the others not.
But Africa, all countries are pretty strong.
I think only Tunisia was eliminated from Africancountries.
Oh, really?
African continent, but...
Okay.
Yeah, like I think 8 out of 9 or something likethat.
Yeah, they're doing good.
I see.
Yeah.
What's the strongest country from Africa?
Maybe...
Côte d'Ivoire.
Okay.
Côte d'Ivoire, maybe.
Or...
Cabo Verde.
Cabo Verde?
Yeah, that making a history.
What's that?
You know, it's the very, very small country, theisland country from Africa.
Okay.
And it's the first time for them to...
Join the World Cup.
Join the World Cup.
Yeah.
And then, on the first game, they draw againstSpain.
0-0 against Spain.
That's crazy result.
And the goalkeeper, who is like 40 age.
Oh, him!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's them.
Okay.
He's got like...
Before the game, his follower on Instagram waslike 50,000 or something like that.
But after the game, like...
That's pretty crazy.
That's crazy.
That's Cabo Verde.
I see.
They're making a history.
I see.
And now they qualified into the next round.
And the first game on the next round is againstArgentina.
Against Messi.
So, the goalkeeper...
Vosinia, that's his name.
Vosinia against Leo Messi.
That's gonna be a very exciting game.
Yes, yes, yes.
How old is he again, the goalkeeper?
40.
40.
And Messi is...
39, 38, something like that.
Just before 40.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I see.
Yeah.
Oh, he got two old signs.
39.
Yeah, two old signs.
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Nice!
On the highest level of football.
That's very exciting.
That's crazy.
That's exciting.
Messi scored again.
Oh, did he?
Yeah.
He scored seven matches on the World Cup in a row.
Is that a record?
I don't know, but I think so.
Okay.
Continuously high.
From the last World Cup.
Because we have only three games in this WorldCup.
Oh, so I see.
So he scored four, and then now he scored three.
And it's like...
That's incredible.
That's incredible.
That is...
That's insane.
That's pretty insane.
Honestly, nobody expected him playing like this.
Everybody loves him, but we all knew kind of,
yeah, he's the best player in the world,
but he's got his age.
He's playing in America.
He kind of retired a bit.
Oh, I see.
I see.
We didn't expect him to be like the sharpestplayer.
That's crazy.
Just shows how much skill he has.
Yeah, so Cabo Verde will face against Argentina.
Argentina is the strong team, so I don't know theresult,
but it's going to be a very, very exciting game.
If you have the chance to sit down with Messi,
what would you ask him?
I just...
Maybe I just hug him.
Okay.
Like a dog.
I don't know.
Whatever.
I don't know.
And I would love to play football with him.
Just passing, kicking the ball to each other.
And I would love to defend him.
Try to catch him.
And he's going to dribble against me.
Yeah.
That would be a dream.
I see.
Yeah.
What if you only had a conference room,
and you just have to ask him a question?
Cannot play anything.
Yeah, there's no ball.
You just have to...
Yeah, you're an interviewer.
I just...
I think I just say how much I love him.
Okay.
And like, thank you for your play,
like your games and everything.
Existence.
Yeah.
Maybe not even a question,
but I just wanted to say that.
Maybe call...
Ask him for calling my name, maybe.
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Kind of.
You're getting into like the holy zone.
You're kind of like...
Yeah.
You're kind of looking at him as like a goddess.
Yeah.
Like a god-like existence now.
I cannot be the interviewer.
Just...
Yeah.
He's too mighty.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For anyone to be interviewed, I guess.
Yeah.
Alright.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.