How to Lose the Best Tournament on Earth

EPISODE 403: America's most important soccer fan.

Perhaps you’ve noticed that America has fallen in love with this World Cup.

Perhaps you’ve noticed that this is happening in spite of FIFA.

Perhaps you’ve noticed that this tournament is getting massive ratings for FOX.

For these reasons, it felt appropriate to sit down with the man that used to be, by some measure, the most important soccer fan in the United States: former ESPN president (and current Sporting Class regular) John Skipper.

Who believed that his home country would one day fall in love with soccer.

And who also testified in a FIFA federal corruption trial.

And who also lost the World Cup to — you guessed it — FOX.

YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

U-S-A,

Pablo

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