Shawn Francis of COPA90 on navigating the upcoming World Cup as content creators
"This is a wild time to be inviting the world to America..."
Shawn Francis discusses planning for the World Cup. (via The Cooligans)
Video Transcript
...what is your thought on telling these stories of the World Cup?
But with the host nations, and, uh, given the US and everything going on, Like, how, how do we navigate through all of that?
The great thing about us, Copa90, telling these stories is we're always telling from a Fan POV.
We don't turn the camera on the field, we turn it at the stands.
To some degree, it kind of lets us tell some stories that might be free of some of the negativity, right?
You know, of, of the sort of jingoism and nationalism that can be, can be, uh, applied to it.
The interesting stories, I think, are gonna come from, like, yeah, this is a wild time to invite the world to America.
When America seems to be doing everything to kick the world out of America.
Right.
For any fan traveling, whether they're coming from abroad, or you're leaving some place like Amarillo, Texas.
To go to Dallas, Texas, to watch games, these are gonna be once in a lifetime.
Real fans are going to be made.
'Cause in the same way that I didn't touch soccer for six, seven years.
Didn't even see a soccer game.
Didn't talk about it or anything.
Then '94 World Cup came back.
And it was like that spark.
This World Cup's gonna be tenfold.
