The People’s Game – Radio Show – 06/23/10

June 24, 2010 4 By admin

The People’s Game – Radio Show for June 23, 2010

There have been many days dramatic in the 2010 World Cup, but for fans of Team USA – long-term fans and all those people who discovered in the 92nd minute of today’s match that they too were Team USA fans – this was by far the most exciting day yet. Landon Donovan’s goal in added time saved the Americans from elimination and propelled them to the top of the Group C standings. The World Cup became the talk of the nation and just possibly – time will tell – catapulted soccer into the top tier of American sports. We’ll talk to Nick Green, who’s followed team USA as close as any journalist in the country, about this exhilerating moment of triumph. Then, Fernando Romero, a lifelong fan of Mexico and Holland confesses a new found allegiance to those damned Yankees! We then travel to foreign shores to talk with Grahame Beasley about the underdog of underdogs, New Zealand. Lars Eriksson in Copenhagen reports on Denmark’s enthusiasm in advance of their showdown with Japan. Sean Carroll, researching a book on Japanese soccer, lets us know how important tomorrow’s match is to the people of Japan and to the future of football in Japan. Gemeli Adzaho joins us from Ghana to talk both about the national soccer team and the Keta Sandlanders FC, a remarkable football club in Ghana. To the end the show, we play the entirety of the special broadcast we recorded earlier today immediately following the USA’s stunning victory.