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@FT writer. Now increasingly at @simonkuper.bsky.social. Latest books: World Cup Fever, and my memoir of modern Paris, Impossible City
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The coach who bonded with Vladimir Putin and took Curaçao to the World Cup

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By Simon Kuper 
| Financial Times
When Curaçao’s team are on their Caribbean island, they travel around in an ancient American bus with music booming out of the gaps where...
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Simon Kuper: “Dünya Kupası Trump’ın değil, hepimizin”

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By Simon Kuper 
| gazeteoksijen.com
İngiltere’de ya da Hollanda’da nüfusun yarısı bir Dünya Kupası maçını izleyebilir. Kulüp futbolunda bu olmaz. Dünya Kupası ülkenin temsilidir. Türkiye sahaya çıktığında sadece 11 futbolcu görmezsiniz. O kırmızı formalar bir ülke fikrini temsil eder. Haklı bir tespit: Herkes ilk Dünya Kupası’nı hatırlar. Benimki 1978’di. İngiltere’den Hollanda’ya taşınmıştık. Göçmendik ama çevremde herkes Hollanda’yı desteklediği için ben de onları destekliyordum.
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A Look Back at the World Cup’s Defining Moments Original

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By Simon Kuper 
| Town & Country
6 min read How do you select the most memorable moments from an international tournament that has happened once every four years (with a few exceptions during World War II) since 1930? Simon Kuper, who the New Yorker calls “one of the best sportswriters in the English language today” and who has just published a new book, World Cup Fever, chose eight matches that had political, social, and athletic ramification that endure to this day. Jump to: July 16, 1950: Brazil vs.
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