Episode 59: Brazil 1982 - The Glorious Failure by Stuart Horsfield

About this episode

The episode discusses the Brazil 1982 soccer team, considered the greatest team never to win the World Cup, featuring insights from author Stuart Horsfield.

In continuation of our World Cup series 🌍🏆, we find ourselves in the 1980s 🕺 with the greatest team never to win the World Cup. At least, that is the contention of Stuart Horsfield 📚, the author of The Glorious Failure, a book about the Brazil 1982 team 🇧🇷 that was (spoiler alert 🚨) beaten by Italy 🇮🇹 and, specifically, Paolo Rossi in a weird round robin second round of that competition. Tune in to find out what happened 🎙️👀. Oh wait. Well, tune in anyway 😅. That Brazil team really did score some amazing goals ⚽✨ and we know a website that has them all 🌐. Oh, there is a competition too 🎁 — our first ever! Please do listen, like ❤️, and subscribe 🔔.

People in this episode

Guest: Stuart Horsfield

Topics covered

• World Cup
• Brazil 1982
• soccer history
• sports analysis
• book discussion

Keywords

• Brazil 1982
• World Cup
• soccer
• Stuart Horsfield
• Paolo Rossi
• The Glorious Failure
• sports history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Glorious Failure

Places: Brazil, Italy

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