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PSG vs Bayern: una semifinale da non perdere e il calcio al suo meglio
In questa edizione speciale di The Ring dedicata al calcio, ricostruiamo una partita di Champions League che passerà alla storia come una delle migliori di sempre. Nove gol: il calcio di alta qualità può davvero essere migliore?
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In questa edizione speciale di The Ring dedicata al calcio, ricostruiamo una partita di Champions League che passerà alla storia come una delle migliori di sempre. Nove gol: il calcio di alta qualità può davvero essere migliore?
ALTRE INFORMAZIONI : http://it.euronews.com/2026/04/30/psg-vs-bayern-una-semifinale-da-non-perdere-e-il-calcio-al-suo-meglio
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00:14Stéphane Grobe
00:30After a fantastic match that electrified the Parc des Princes and will go down in Champions League history, PSG secured
00:37a one-goal lead, having been up 5-2, but having also feared the worst.
00:43The second leg next week in Munich promises a huge one.
00:47So talk about what happened last night, what comes next, and what else is moving European football these days.
00:53I'm joined by two big football fans and consummate Brussels insiders.
00:58Conor Allen, who manages government and external relations at a big company, and Petros Fasoulas, secretary-general of the European
01:06Movement International.
01:08Welcome to both of you and thanks for coming on the show tonight.
01:11Conor, I'll start with you. Did the better team win last night?
01:15Well, it was such an entertaining game. Who was the better team?
01:18Okay, you could say it's PSG, but I actually thought both of the defences were kind of crap, if I
01:24can say so.
01:25Manuel Neuer didn't have the best game.
01:28So probably, if you ask me, I don't really know who was the best team.
01:33I was so glued, it was so entertaining, but it was marked by individual elements.
01:37Well, that's what it should be, right? Who are you rooting for, Petros?
01:40Well, neither of the teams are the ones I support. I'm an Olympiacos fan through and through.
01:45If I support anybody else, the world will end.
01:47But we were likely to be treated to top quality football by two really strong teams representing two leagues that
01:54are indeed at the top of their performance.
01:57And as a result, choosing the best one isn't even necessary.
02:01I think we enjoyed the game. We saw attacking football.
02:05As we haven't seen this season a lot, things are becoming a bit more boring.
02:08And that in itself, I think, was a triumph.
02:09Yeah, on that point, nine goals in a Champions League semifinal. That's a record.
02:14What does it tell us about the team's qualities?
02:17Well, I think it illustrates the difference between PSG and Bayern.
02:20And so PSG, they have such individual quality that when you kind of open the game up and you have
02:26that free-flowing attacking dynamic, the individual quality shines through a bit more.
02:32But then once the game calms down a bit, Bayern are so strong with the structure they have, the kind
02:37of German discipline and order, that they really got back into it.
02:41I think it also reminds us the extent to which football has become this perfect machine now.
02:48You know, we have so much data, so much analysis on performance.
02:52Athletes get the best treatment to recover from injuries.
02:55They have trainers.
02:56They are able to reach a peak very early in their career and then spend years and years perfecting their
03:02talent.
03:02So ultimately, when they reach that level, they can perform in an outside fashion.
03:06And the quality of both teams was rather on the same level, right?
03:11So PSG coach Luis Enrique said that it was the best game he ever experienced as a coach.
03:16And later he said that PSG merited to win, but also merited to end with a draw and merited to
03:22lose.
03:23Was he right, Conor?
03:24Yeah, I mean...
03:26So was it just good luck?
03:29It wasn't...
03:30Maybe it was luck, because could you...
03:32And we just talked about this.
03:34Was there anything between the teams?
03:36I don't think there was.
03:37It was such...
03:38It was individual mistakes.
03:39Manuel Neuer, again, perhaps maybe should have saved two goals, beat him in his near post one time.
03:45So I think it was really...
03:47When you talk about the quality of the players and the 1% that decides these games, I think it
03:51was this 1%.
03:52I don't think any team deserved to win, but that's the result we have.
03:56How important is this 1-goal advantage for PSG heading into the second leg?
04:04I mean, it can be very important and it can mean nothing.
04:06We saw how quickly goals were scored last night.
04:09So you can imagine one team going 3-0 up after 15 minutes in a week's time.
04:14But at the same time, 1-goal gives you that psychological advantage.
04:18It makes you realise that, you know, you can beat the other team.
04:21It's possible that Bayern feels a bit more confident, because first of all, they came from behind
04:26and they nearly equalised, they really put PSG up against it.
04:29And second of all, of course, they're playing at home.
04:31So that 1-goal advantage can disappear quite quickly.
04:3475,000, the Allianz Arena is tied.
04:37It's a cauldron.
04:38A cauldron in Munich.
04:40And Bayern only lost three games this season.
04:43And they're having, they're hosting PSG at home.
04:46Does that make the final difference?
04:49It makes a lot of difference, doesn't it?
04:50And we've all been there in the football staging.
04:52We've got the fans going, something's on the line.
04:54You can cut the atmosphere of a night.
04:56It makes a lot of difference.
04:57And when we're talking about those 1%, and you've got your fans behind you screaming and shouting
05:02and going for a PSG, I think Bayern have a strong psychological advantage.
05:07Will the PSG be out-screamed in Munich?
05:09Certainly.
05:10There was one scene yesterday where one of the ball boys refused to give the ball to Manuel Neuer.
05:16Did you see that?
05:18And obviously Bayern was under pressure to score.
05:23That is something we don't want to see, right?
05:25As leads from somebody who has nothing to do with the game.
05:28Yeah, well, where I come from, this is quite regular, you know.
05:32Everybody's trying to give their team a tiny bit of advantage.
05:34And yes, holding on to the ball, if that makes a difference, why not?
05:38We've always had it, though, haven't we?
05:39I remember Chelsea about 10 years ago, was it David Luiz kicking a ball boy because he wouldn't give the
05:44ball back.
05:44It's always happened.
05:45You're always going to have teams scrambling for a little bit of advantage.
05:48To make it more suspenseful next week, Hakimi, PSG player, was injured in the 88th minute or something
05:56and then could barely make it to the end.
05:58He's probably not going to play next week.
06:00Is that a handicap for the Parisians?
06:03Yeah, I mean, so I think he's going to go in testing at the moment and maybe he's back, but
06:08most likely not.
06:09Listen, I think the modern game relies so much on that role of the wing back, right?
06:13And really attacking defenders, getting up and down the field.
06:17And Hakimi is one of the best in the game at that.
06:19So it's not the end of the world for PSG, but they will miss him for sure.
06:23They have such an amazing squad, so much talent. I think they can't replace anyone.
06:28Yeah, they have a...
06:30It's a pity that he won't be there because he's an exciting player, indeed.
06:32Yes, indeed.
06:33Yeah. What characterizes both teams' equalities?
06:39Is it, you know, we said they were, you know, forward playing and no tactics.
06:43It's, you know, playing offense, really.
06:48But can we detect some differences here?
06:51Hmm. Well, it's interesting that you ask that because I think Bayern is a bit more muscular.
06:58They are a bit more dominant in the way they approach the game.
07:01PSG is famous for their fluid and fast game.
07:05They play a lot from the wings.
07:06They have this mentality of running the ball.
07:10But I think that is also where the difference could be in the second leg.
07:14Who will be able to assert themselves physically over the other, win over the mind games as well,
07:20and eventually get that extra edge?
07:22Because the competition is really strong and the two teams are hard to separate.
07:26Yeah.
07:27Yeah.
07:27And you can really see with Bayern just the mentality and the grit they have.
07:32To go 5-2 down at one point and to fight back, to still be in it for the next
07:36leg, that shows true spirit.
07:39I think that shows tenacity and grit and resilience, which may be, you know, fancy flowing PSG.
07:44Maybe they don't have.
07:45I think maybe in the next leg when we start to see Bayern coming for PSG, it's going to be
07:49a real test of PSG's mentality.
07:51But, I mean, still they lost, right? But did they merit a draw at that point?
07:56I don't know. I think PSG on the night, I mean, they probably maybe perhaps deserved it.
08:01I mean, they opened the game up. The game was played to PSG's strengths and not the other way around.
08:06And so I think there's something to be said for grabbing the green band, a scruff of the neck and
08:10really going for it.
08:11But it just was really close, wasn't it?
08:13Yeah. One word on the referee. There were two penalty kicks, obviously contested.
08:20and how important, I'm not going to, you know, enter this debate whether it was justified or not,
08:25but how important is, you know, the performance of the referee in a game like this?
08:31It can make a difference, of course. It can ruin a game.
08:34But then again, it's part of life. Mistakes are part of life.
08:37And I think in modern football, because so much is at stake, so much money, so much prestige,
08:41we're trying to scrutinize and have every decision and avoid every mistake.
08:47That's not how life works. Sometimes people make mistakes.
08:51It's part of the game the way it's part of life.
08:53Yeah. And I guess as professionals you have to shove it, right?
08:57Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, bad refereeing decisions have always been with the game.
09:03And even with VAR, they still exist.
09:04I thought those penalty decisions were a bit weak, maybe.
09:07Maybe, I don't know. I don't know if you agree with me or not.
09:11But it's part of the game. You've got to live with it.
09:13And at the end of the day, it balances out.
09:15Yeah. Is either team now favored to win the Champions League this year,
09:19regardless of what happens between Atletico and Arsenal, Petros?
09:23You know, I would say that this would have been an amazing final.
09:26You know, that these two teams deserve to go all the way.
09:29The way they have performed.
09:30Don't forget, I think they both have scored over 40 goals in this competition.
09:35And their performances have been high consistently.
09:39So, it would be a pity if one of them is not there.
09:41Because the way they play may reach to reach the final at least.
09:46Now, who is going to make it is really hard to predict.
09:49And I'm not a betting man.
09:50Connor?
09:51I don't think either. I think Arsenal are going to win it.
09:53Arsenal's going to win it.
09:54Like Arsenal look electric. I think they are, I mean, they're unbeaten, right?
09:58This comes from a Man United fan.
10:00I know, exactly.
10:01It's quite a statement.
10:02On live TV, should be.
10:03I don't think you're going to be allowed back to Manchester again.
10:05All right.
10:06So, we have Bayern from Germany, PSG from France, Atletico from Spain and Arsenal from England.
10:14That is pretty balanced.
10:16There used to be a time when we had, you know, three Spanish teams, three English teams among the last
10:21four.
10:22Is the rest of Europe catching up?
10:25Is there more balance now?
10:27Is it even-handed?
10:28Look, there's still a few leagues that are dominating European competitions.
10:32Whether we like it or not, because of television rights, foreign investment from very wealthy individuals,
10:39whether it's from the Gulf or the US or elsewhere.
10:42So, you know, we still see that a handful of leagues and a small number of teams dominate year in,
10:48year out.
10:48It's great that four nations are represented, the teams from four nations are represented on the semifinals.
10:53Certainly an improvement.
10:54It does get a bit boring when you have three Spanish teams or three English teams competing.
10:57That makes it more interesting, right, Conor?
11:00Yeah, it does.
11:00I think it's reflective of, in general, football is much more competitive across the game now.
11:05And if you look in the English league, within the Spanish league, within the German league,
11:09there's suddenly six or seven teams pushing for those Champions League spots.
11:13That raises everyone's game, apart from the French league, where there's still only 14.
11:16All right.
11:17Let me stop you right there as we're just getting warmed up.
11:25Now it's time for you to challenge each other directly and ask each other questions.
11:31So let's get started.
11:32Petros, why don't you kick us off?
11:34Well, I just remember a famous English striker, Gary Lineker,
11:38saying that football is a game played by two teams, 11 players each, and the Germans always win.
11:44Is that true?
11:46A long time ago.
11:49It was once upon a time, but, I mean, that sort of German dominance,
11:54I mean, is it really still there?
11:56I remember a time, you know, my defining moment as a fan was 1999,
12:00Manchester United scoring two goals in the last minute to beat Bayern Munich.
12:03I have to say that, because Stefan's almost a Bayern fan.
12:07German dominance, it's more, they're certainly scary, but it's a myth, isn't it?
12:12Isn't it a myth?
12:14Yeah, I do play.
12:15Does this have something to do with governance of football in Germany that's different?
12:21Because there's no big investor can buy a club, something like this?
12:25A little bit, a little bit.
12:26And I think, and this is a question I want to ask to you, when we look at teams these
12:30days,
12:31you have a difference, you have teams of real soul and real passion, and they're connected to communities.
12:35So, as a Man United fan, I'm a bad United fan, but I'm going to say Liverpool,
12:39if you go towards the Kop, you stand in the Kop, it's such an electric atmosphere.
12:44Those fans love that club.
12:45If you go to Red Bull Leipzig, if you go to Chelsea, if you go to Manchester City, if you
12:49go to PSG,
12:50it's not the same, is it?
12:51Yeah, it's very true.
12:52I think globalization, the internationalization of the game has made it, obviously, very exciting.
12:59as we were discussing earlier, performances are better, players are so much skillful,
13:05but it's true, we've lost a little bit the connection with the community.
13:08And I think that is a big risk for, not just professional football,
13:11I think the same applies to all sports, especially those with a global profile.
13:16If we lose the funds, if we're turning too much into entertainment, too much into business,
13:22then the sport itself is going to suffer, and ultimately the people who invested in it are going to lose
13:27their money.
13:28So, it is great that we have so many great teams, and so many good players,
13:32and so much interest to watch the game, but if the fans, the local fans, don't feel a connection with
13:37the club,
13:38the whole thing can fall apart quite quickly.
13:40Yeah.
13:41Petro, there's another question to Conor.
13:43Well, you know, I struggle a little bit with this, because I don't want the conversations to be very nerdy,
13:47but I'll ask you this, what would you prefer?
13:50Front row seats, World Cup final, or 90 minutes with Woden Leinen?
13:55Ah, it depends if it's on the ring or not.
13:59Question.
14:00No, I mean, the World Cup final, obviously, it's such a special thing to go to a World Cup final.
14:05I've never been to a World Cup final, I don't know if any of you lads have,
14:08but are defining moments in your life, and people point to those World Cup moments.
14:13I have a question to you, Conor.
14:17Britain has four federations, four teams.
14:20Is that not dividing the power of British football?
14:23I mean, the last competition you won was in 1966, the year I was born.
14:28I remember that, against Germany.
14:31But, I mean, so what's your suggestion, that Great Britain should compete?
14:34Yeah, sure.
14:34As we do in the Olympics.
14:36No, no, because I think if you ask a Scottish fan,
14:38who do you truly support?
14:40A Scottish fan will say Scotland.
14:42They'll never root for England.
14:43And the same with the Northern Irish, and the same with the Welsh.
14:45And that goes back to what we were saying.
14:47It needs to be connected to local communities,
14:49and it has to be connected to, it needs to be natural, right?
14:52And so, if you compare it to golf, where we have a European team, it's bad.
14:56That brings about collective disappointment every four years,
14:59because you guys never win anything,
15:01because the power of British football is so divided.
15:04Well, you look at the next World Cup, it's coming home.
15:06Okay.
15:07All right.
15:08I've heard that sentence before.
15:10Conor, next question to Ketros.
15:12Well, we kind of lapsed down into the national sport.
15:19Maybe my question is, how is the health, in your eyes, of the national game?
15:24You know, is there still a huge amount of people
15:28who really get behind their nation and cheer,
15:31or is it slipping away as these clubs and this club all comes so much more powerful?
15:36No, no, I think there is a lot of passion still in support of the national team
15:39in most European nations, at least the ones that are known for.
15:42And, you know, we are now in Belgium.
15:43And, as we all know, Belgium is a very divided country,
15:46along linguistic lines, religious lines, political lines.
15:49But the one thing that unites them is the national football team.
15:53And we've seen this year in, year out, tournament in, year, tournament out.
15:57Even when they're not doing well, people are really coming behind them.
15:59So, I think there is still passion in supporting the national team.
16:03And it's also important to make sure that these big clubs
16:05that want to create their closed leagues
16:07and make sure that the players don't get injured playing for a national team,
16:11don't touch national federation, so don't touch national team.
16:15I like that unifying theme.
16:17We'll come back to it in a minute.
16:19We now want to hear the view from a new person, a new voice.
16:26And here it is.
16:31We'll bring in EU Sports Commissioner Glenn Mikalev now from Malta.
16:36He watched the game last night and told us the following.
16:39The semifinal showed football at its very best.
16:43That's what European sport does.
16:45It brings people into the same moment.
16:47Footballers are ambassadors and role models people look up to.
16:52They inspire and connect millions of people.
16:54And the Champions League, together with Europe's domestic leagues,
16:58gives them the greatest stage to do exactly that.
17:01Do you agree, Conor?
17:03I absolutely agree.
17:04You know, you look at footballers have always inspired young men and women.
17:09I remember, I mean, my role model as a child, it was Eric Cantona, right?
17:13Of course, as a kid, you want to look up to these role models,
17:17these people who are the best in the world,
17:20elite athletes who put in so much training and sacrifice,
17:23and you really see the results of that on the pitch.
17:25I absolutely agree with Commissioner Mikalev.
17:27So that unifying element here, does it exist?
17:31And can it help us as society to overcome, you know, other divisions?
17:36Yes, absolutely.
17:37One step back, sometimes we put too much on the shoulders of these young men and women,
17:42you know, these athletes generally.
17:44We're talking about men's football in particular here.
17:46You know, they're in their early 20s, some of them in their late teens.
17:50And, you know, they perform at the highest level in front of thousands,
17:53if not millions of people watching on TV.
17:55And then if we expect them also to function as role models too,
18:00especially ones that are supposed to unify society,
18:03there is a lot of pressure there.
18:04Having said that, you know, there are examples where people have really grasped that opportunity,
18:10that the spotlight, and they use it to speak about issues that are separate to football.
18:15And I embrace this, because I think football is part of society.
18:18And they need to have a voice in that society.
18:20But sometimes I think we put too much pressure on them.
18:22And then all the PR comes around,
18:24and they end up sounding like robots because they're too careful to say the wrong thing.
18:27Can I challenge you on that?
18:29Why should footballers, who, okay, yes, I accept they are low models,
18:32but they're multimillionaires, they are so detached from the issues of the common person.
18:38Why should these footballers be speaking about anything in the sport?
18:41You know, not everyone is detached.
18:43It's true, there are some who have become too rich,
18:46and obviously they are completely from a different world.
18:48But, you know, not everyone is detached.
18:50And I mean that also about those that are not role models.
18:54You know, the guy who we saw an English football player recently
18:57getting really intoxicated in a bar in his local town and falling asleep.
19:02You know, but how much money he makes, he is like a normal lad.
19:05I think he has a point.
19:07How can multimillionaire football players be role models for kids
19:13who grow up in suburbia under very, very modest circumstances?
19:17It can be an inspiration, especially for those who are coming from disadvantaged backgrounds,
19:22to see someone who is coming from their own context
19:26and becoming really successful, wealthy even, doing something that they care for.
19:31I think that can be the difference between pursuing, playing a sport,
19:36being physical, being healthy, and doing drugs or falling into a bar.
19:41All right.
19:41We'll talk about the dark side of footballs now.
19:43Let's go to the next round.
19:49So, UEFA reports show that hundreds to thousands of posts are flagged during tournaments.
19:55Between 5 to 65 percent of flagged content is classified as racist,
20:00depending on the competition and stage.
20:02Racism is consistently listed as a major category of discrimination
20:05in European football monitoring systems, according to UEFA.
20:10Conor, do these numbers surprise you?
20:13The numbers don't surprise me, no, and anyone with a Twitter account will know
20:17when a match day is on, you will see some awful stuff.
20:20But you also have to realise you can't police the world, right?
20:23And a lot of these comments originate from places outside European jurisdiction.
20:29I don't think, and we all grew up in the 90s, and for you guys the 80s, sorry to say,
20:36where racism was really rife in football.
20:38It's really nasty, and it was really visible and present.
20:40That's not the game today.
20:42Today, you know, a black person could take their family to a game
20:45in full safety and full security, more or less.
20:47We're still hearing, you know, bad comments about black players in stadiums
20:55as soon as the player approaches the sideline or, you know, gets the ball from the ball boy.
21:00We've seen awful scenes here, right?
21:02Yeah, football is a reflection of our society.
21:06It doesn't operate in a vacuum, you know.
21:08It's not just a script that we put together to present an idealized version of our everyday reality.
21:14Unfortunately, our society is divided.
21:16There is racism, bigotry, and as a result, that spills over into football as well,
21:21the same way it spills over in every side of society.
21:24We need to fight this kind of division, especially racism, across our society.
21:30And when we manage to educate our people, then they will be able to behave better as human beings
21:36and as fans as well.
21:37When we manage, who should do this?
21:39Well, I mean, if I can push back on this.
21:42Sure.
21:43Yes, so when you hear those words in the stadium, those people get lifted.
21:48They get stadium bonds, right?
21:50I don't think Europe itself has a massive problem with racism in football.
21:54There are clear punishments, and we see those punishments being enacted all the time.
21:58Your citation for why is there so much racism in football was online comments on Twitter.
22:04We don't know the origin of those comments.
22:06They could be from anywhere in the world.
22:07And so, you know, I don't think we should give Europe the power to police the world in that.
22:12Unfortunately, we just have to accept it.
22:14Well, there's like, coming back to last night's game,
22:15there is this story that probably only football can write,
22:18and this is the friendship between Dembele from PSG and Opa Meccano from Bayern Munich,
22:25who have been friends since kindergarten.
22:28And now they're playing on both sides, you know, in good football jobs.
22:32Is this an inspiring story?
22:34Should we tell these stories more often?
22:38It's inspiring, and it's not.
22:40And I think, you know, the game should be about competition, fierce competition,
22:44and the best athletes in the world going at each other and doing everything they can to win.
22:48And, you know, I always remember what Roy Keyes saying of the Pogba brothers.
22:52are they really going at each other hand as they can when they're going for half-time,
22:57and they're embracing and holding hands and stuff?
22:59No, no, no.
23:00You need to be out there to win.
23:01All right, so it's not 11 friends playing against other 11 friends.
23:06You know, what they say, football is not a matter of life or death, it's much more important than that.
23:11Of course, when people go into the pitch, they only see an opponent and they want to win.
23:16They want to dominate that opponent and win the game, win the championship, win the cup.
23:20But I think it's, I see some beauty in this, where two friends can compete and at the same time
23:27leave the pitch,
23:29exchange their shirts and go and have a drink together, because they come back, they go back a long time.
23:34So, yeah, it doesn't compromise, I think, at all their sense of competitiveness.
23:37To reach that level, you should be able to play through anything, including friendship.
23:42Be fat.
23:43All right.
23:43Off the pitch, but on the pitch, be enemies.
23:46That's a perfect conclusion, but we're not yet there at the end.
23:49And now it's time to move on to our fifth and final round, where we want to do something different.
23:57I'm going to ask you a set of questions, and you can only answer with one word.
24:03Okay.
24:04Petro, start with you.
24:05Who will win the Champions League this year?
24:07I think it's going to be Piersi.
24:09Ask them.
24:10Ask.
24:11All right.
24:11Who should we consider the best player of the Champions League this year?
24:17Kane.
24:17Kane?
24:19I agree.
24:20He's a bit biased.
24:20Oh, okay.
24:21I will give you that.
24:22You know, I've never been a big fan of his, but the way he's played for Bayern has exceeded
24:27my expectations.
24:27So I'll give him an extra point for that.
24:30Okay.
24:30Who should we consider the best coach?
24:33I really like Enrique.
24:35I think he's a great guy.
24:36I love his style.
24:37Even though the company is an exciting young man, you know, from Belgium, of course, played
24:43in there.
24:44I think Enrique is the best guy.
24:46Okay.
24:46Now I'm going to ask a question where you can only answer with yes or no, to make it short.
24:52Connor, should the Champions League be on free TV?
24:56No.
24:57Yes.
24:58Okay.
25:00Let's move on to the World Cup.
25:02Who wins the World Cup this year?
25:05Oh, my goodness.
25:06That's very, very difficult.
25:09You know what?
25:10Greece is not there.
25:12So I'll have to choose somebody else.
25:14Let's see.
25:14This is controversial.
25:15You can say England if you want.
25:18Yes.
25:18You know what?
25:19I'll say England.
25:20You think about it, Connor.
25:22England, of course.
25:23Okay.
25:24It's coming home.
25:25Should we have a Europa League, a real Europa League with only the best clubs, a project
25:32that has been, you know, floated in the past?
25:35Like a closed league?
25:36Yes.
25:36No.
25:37Like in the US.
25:37No?
25:38No.
25:39All right.
25:40Letting three countries host the World Cup.
25:43Is that a good idea?
25:44No.
25:45Yes.
25:46Okay.
25:49Inventing the FIFA Peace Prize and awarding it to Donald Trump.
25:53Is that a good idea?
25:54Terrible.
25:55Not a good idea.
25:57It's a nuanced answer.
25:59No from the perspective of credibility.
26:01Yes from the perspective of getting Trump on board.
26:04Okay.
26:05I'm getting the game.
26:06In this World Cup there will be a record number of 48 participating teams.
26:11Too many?
26:12Yes.
26:13No.
26:15Okay.
26:16Iran qualified for the World Cup.
26:19Should the country participate or be kicked out as the Trump administration suggested?
26:25Participate.
26:26Participate.
26:26Okay.
26:28And are tickets generally too expensive?
26:32Oh yes.
26:33Oh yes.
26:34Outrageous.
26:35Yes.
26:35Would you guys, you know, earn some money consider going to the US and buy a ticket?
26:42If you're inviting, sure.
26:43But I don't think I can afford it.
26:45Okay.
26:46Yeah, no, I can't afford that.
26:47All right.
26:48Not on my salary.
26:49Listen, that's it.
26:50That was the final answer that brings us to the end of this special live edition of The Ring.
26:55Thanks again to Conor Allen and Petrus Fasoulas for a lively conversation here from our studio in Brussels.
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27:13That's it for today.
27:14I'm Stefan Grobe.
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