World Cup TV Archives - Generation Zero

Requiem for Match of the Day (and The Sanctity of Unspoiled Endings)

Hal Phillips — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:29:21 +0000

There’s a wonderfully prescient exchange in Whit Stillman’s 1990 film, “Metropolitan,” wherein the know-it-all main character is interrogated on all the works of literature he can’t stop referencing. “You don’t have to have read a book to have an opinion on it. I haven’t read the Bible either,” he reveals, by way of defending [...]

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Irresistable Grant Wahl Delivers Billion Dollar Goal, From the Grave

Hal Phillips — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:57:33 +0000

It’s been exactly one year since Grant Wahl was taken from us, so the timing of his posthumous Paramount+ project, The Billion Dollar Goal, which debuts tonight, could not resonate more strongly with fans of U.S. soccer. That goes double for me, because this docuseries covers much the same ground showcased in my July [...]

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The Most Important Cheeseburger Sub in U.S. Soccer History

Hal Phillips — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:08:44 +0000

In the pages of Generation Zero and here on the book’s companion site, we’ve spent a good deal of time and space examining exactly when, how and by whose efforts American soccer came of age. Before GZ was but a twinkle in my eye, I engaged with these important questions in an altogether different way [...]

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