#683: The 1990 World Cup team with author Adam Elder

Adam Elder, the author of "New Kids in the World Cup," joins Belz to talk about the pivotal 1990 World Cup qualifying campaign and the team that went to Italia '90. We mourn the end of the Concacaf qualifying gauntlet, discuss John Harkes' photographic memory, cover the press corps' antagonism to soccer in the 1980s, the genesis of the music video on the beach, and much more.

"New Kids in the World Cup" comes out in paperback soon. Check here: https://newkidsintheworldcup.com/

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