World Cup | The World Cup and the New World Order | 3
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World Cup | The World Cup and the New World Order | 3

What turns a football team into a country's most powerful weapon? How does a game invented to entertain end up laundering the reputations of dictators? And when seventy years of European control collapsed in a single afternoon's vote — who took the game, and what did they want with it? From the sunlit genius of Brazil in 1970 to a backroom ballot in Frankfurt, Peter and Afua track the moment football slips out of European hands — and everyone, from newly free nations to military juntas, lunges to grab it.


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[0:00] The greatest team ever to play — and the regime that basked in them

[3:56] Apartheid South Africa digs in while the rest of the world breaks free

[8:34] The Brazilian swimmer who saw what Europe refused to

[13:30] Mexico 1970: sunshine, colour TV, and football reborn as carnival

[15:30] England's captain, accused of nicking a bracelet in Bogotá

[18:38] Pelé becomes the most famous man alive — for a government that tortures

[22:17] Zaire arrive, the leopard-print rebellion begins

[30:52] One vote in Frankfurt ends seventy years of European rule


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