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Soccer reaches boiling point
Soccer reaches boiling point

The year is 1994 and America is preparing to host its first World Cup. The soccer kind. It all begins in Rotterdam. With a team otherwise uninvolved.

One More Time
One More Time

Andy Afford looks at the World Cup through the prism of squad ages. Is it really just a number, or is there something more to growing up?

Archipelago-go
Archipelago-go

Four debut nations are bound for the World Cup North America. The documentation of who they are and how they got there is told through the journey of one unlikely Cape Verdean.

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