Introducing The Last Cup

La última copa/The Last Cup

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Society & Culture, Sports, Documentary

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience, starting November 10th.

Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer player of his generation, but there's one dream he's never achieved: winning a World Cup for Argentina, the country he left decades ago.

What does home mean when you are so far away, for so long?

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0:00.0	I'm going to tell you the story of one of the best soccer players that has ever lived, the Superman of soccer.
0:07.5	Take your poison, it's Messi!
0:09.0	He's in it!
0:10.5	And it's goal!
0:12.0	Here he is again.
0:13.5	That's astonishing!
0:14.5	Little Messi!
0:15.5	Oh my goodness!
0:17.5	Little Messi does him again!
0:19.0	He's superhuman! Lionel Messi has a record number of goals in the Spanish League and the most ball and
0:26.6	any soccer player ever.
0:28.6	You see Leonele Messi on a team and you expect that team to win every single time.
0:33.6	But there's one thing he's never been able to do.
0:36.6	He's never won able to do.
0:39.5	He's never won a World Cup.
0:46.6	Messi has spent most of his record-breaking career playing in Europe.
0:51.5	But whenever he'd come home to Argentina and put on the national team jersey,
0:54.2	it's like he lost his superpowers. Neil Messi, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's got away.
0:58.6	And every time it got away, a lot of people back home got angry.
1:02.7	And as an Argentine myself, as someone who had to leave the country as a kid, this has been hard to watch.
1:14.7	That frustration almost broke him. He felt that he was failing the country.
1:21.2	This is a different kind of sports story. It's about what it means to leave home and whether or not you can ever really go back.
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