THE LOWDOWN — THE FULL HISTORY
FIVE NAMES
Pelé. Maradona. Zidane. Ronaldo. Messi. Five names, and the World Cups that made them.
THE MOMENTS
The Hand of God. The Goal of the Century. The Maracanazo. Total Football. The Phantom Goal. Seven–one. Some you remember, some you have forgotten, some happened before you were born. All of them changed football.
THE SERIES
This short comes from EP01 of The World Cup Universe, the series intro, which counts down all 22 past World Cups, one episode at a time, on the road to the 2026 tournament.
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THE TERRACES — DISCUSSION
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