La vie hollywoodienne passe au second plan face à la nécessité pour les États-Unis de remporter la Coupe du monde | Max Rushden
Travailler sur un tournoi comporte son lot d'exigences, mais rien de comparable à la pression qui pèse sur les joueurs locaux pour réaliser une bonne performance. Salutations de Los Angeles – de votre correspondant podcast. Mis à part l'Angleterre, cela fait 20 ans que je n'ai pas mis les pieds dans le pays hôte d'un tournoi majeur. Mes obligations professionnelles rendent l'expérience légèrement différente de celle vécue en sillonnant l'Allemagne avec Ian, Matt et Oli en 2006…
Working at a tournament brings its own demands but nothing like the pressure on home players for a good showing
Greetings from Los Angeles – from your own podcasting correspondent. England aside, it’s been 20 years since I was in the host country for a major tournament. Professional commitments make this a marginally different experience from driving around Germany with Ian, Matt and Oli in 2006 just wondering when the next stein was going to be thrust into my hands – dancing with Trinidad and Tobago fans, feeling lucky to miss out on Brazil v Australia tickets because my hangover was too much for the sun.
The question you are asked most by people back home is along the lines of: “Is there World Cup fever in the States?” I am reminded of a local TV crew who walked around central Cambridge on the eve of our FA Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace in 1990 asking people how they felt about the game, and being rewarded with lots of nice middle-class people who didn’t even know there was a football team in Cambridge.
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