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The Beautiful Game

The Beautiful Game

Search complete. 5 mentions across 4 episodes found for "The Beautiful Game".

Sep 28, 2026

Pete WatsonGUEST
24:22
You have to go deeper.
Pete WatsonGUEST
24:24
So Brazil interrogate what is their football, and it's the Jogo Bonito, the Samba-style football, the Malandro, the something that is Brazil that's not Europe.
Pete WatsonGUEST
24:34
So having a European manager and someone who's quite practical, pragmatic as a manager, was one kind of aspect where they say, have we sold ourselves? Are we going for this European project that is not really ours, that doesn't belong to us, that our footballers don't understand? I wonder whether that's a fair comment when so many of their footballers play in Europe anyway, when the global game is so Europeanised in terms of the tactical formations, the expectation of hard work, of pressing, of drilling, that that individuality is further and further lost anyway.
Pete WatsonGUEST
25:13
So I'm not sure to what extent that is a problem in terms of, is this a style that our players can't play? But that was one thing.
Pete WatsonGUEST
26:07
But it was seen as being part of his actual political alliance.
Pete WatsonGUEST
26:11
So it's quite ironic that because a left-wing president, Lula da Silva, is currently now in charge, somehow this failure is being associated with him, even though You know, that that type of evangelical religion isn't really his.
Pete WatsonGUEST
26:25
But anyway, the idea is that somehow this evangelical Pentecostal Christianity is somehow against the the Samba football, the Jogo Bonito, the carnivalesque, the the malander or the sneaky, skillful genius.
Pete WatsonGUEST
26:40
So, again, there is this there has been this real analysis of.
Julian GarciaGUEST
13:26
Basically, Looking like they're hanging out at Roberto's house and, you know, they're kicking the soccer ball around, two old friends sort of chapping it up and getting back together.
Julian GarciaGUEST
13:34
And it was very reminiscent of, you know, the late 90s, early 2000s Brazilian national team, what they called Jogo Bonito, sort of the beautiful game and these highlight reels that, you know, people of my generation and younger and older would have remembered as some iconic films in soccer.
Julian GarciaGUEST
13:53
And so we really leaned into the culture behind soccer to create content that was still driving the awareness of the limited edition bottle, but in a very unique way.
Julian GarciaGUEST
14:03
So as I mentioned, that started in January.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
0:24
It had to be.
CallumHOST
0:26
So once again, we have gone to the fans of Jogo Bonito and asked for their hot takes.
CallumHOST
0:31
They came back again, some lukewarm takes, some roasting hot takes, and we're going to react to them all today.
CallumHOST
0:36
Boys, we're back in person again today, joined by Luke and Matthew.
BarcaBoy103HOST
11:14
I like that he's used more.
BarcaBoy103HOST
11:15
I think with the Brazilian, the Jogo Bonito of Barcelona, it might, you know, come in.
BarcaBoy103HOST
11:19
But Warrior, let us know your thoughts on the window.
BarcaBoy103HOST
11:21
Do you think, you know, I was just thinking, now everyone was thinking, of the signs that we have made, only really Cancelo and Gordon were planned.

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