00:00I have to credit my uncle. He introduced me to Arsenal. And that was in the late 90s, early 2000s.
00:09And a lot of that was, you know, I was born in Uganda and East Africa. Arsenal, I would argue,
00:13is the most supported team in Uganda. And I think a lot of it has to do with the history
00:18of African talent on the team.
00:21And, you know, whether it's Kanu or Lauren or then went on to be Kolo Touré, Emmanuel Le Bue, Alex
00:27Song. I'll even name him, even though forever hurt by Emmanuel Adebayor.
00:34And those are so many of my memories. I mean, I even I think we still have like these fridge
00:39magnets from back in the day of David Seaman and Sylvain Wiltord and a lot of those players.
00:45And I think my first World Cup memory is probably around 98 as well. Yeah. And Zidane and just falling
00:51in love with Zizou.
00:53I mean, what a what a player. And and then, you know, 2002, I was living in New York City
01:00at the time and it was the first time my dad ever let me be late for school was when
01:05France was playing Senegal.
01:08And and and, you know, his love of academia had no chance against Pan-Africanism and stayed home, watched Papabuva
01:15Diyop, score on Fabian Barthez.
01:16And that's one of my early memories.
