ハリウッドのバブル生活は、アメリカのワールドカップ優勝への切望に比べれば二の次 | マックス・ラッシュデン
トーナメントでの仕事にはそれなりの苦労が伴いますが、地元選手の好成績へのプレッシャーにはかないません。ロサンゼルスからご挨拶申し上げます。ポッドキャスト特派員より。イングランドは別として、主要トーナメントの開催国を訪れるのは20年ぶりです。仕事上の都合もあり、2006年にイアン、マット、オリとドイツを車で回った時とは少し違った経験になっています…。
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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