Birth Or Ball?

It's the World Cup story that everyone has been talking about!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right, yah, World Cup, gonna talk World Cup. There's a
player called Jeremy Doku and he is a player who
plays for Belgium and now he and his wife Scherene
were expecting their first child during the World Cup tournaments.
So he arranged with his coach and the team that
if something comes up and she goes into labor, I'm out.

(00:20):
I need to get a flight back to Europe so
I can be there for my wife and I can
be there for the first you know, my firstborn. A
lot of support, a lot of support from players, but
there were people in the media that said, you're giving
up an opportunity to play in a World Cup just

(00:41):
so you could go to the birth of your firstborn.
There was a French reporter and now when I looked
it up, it was all in French, so obviously a complaint.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
It happens with French reporters. I've had.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I've had someone who was reporting on it, and this
is a little clip of what he said and quoting her.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
You're not going to cut an umbilical cord. You cannot
miss a World Cup, she says. You're living a childhood dream.
Yet you're going to walk away from all to attend
the birth of your child a disgusting moment.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
What she I immediately when you see the French reporter
immediately thought of like a John Cleese looking person who.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Was French eating a bag with the Yeah, also living
at faulty tails. But yeah, when I mentioned that to
you first thing in popsy, it had.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
To be a male reporter. Yes, that's what I thought
right away.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Female reporter the newspaper that she works for. Like also
like separated herself right, like kept that's that's not the
key of the paper. She's come out and apologized to
what she says in that situation. I know what I'd do.
I'd go to my firstborn, even if it's a World Cup.

(01:56):
You hear these stories all the time. I think it
was the AFL Grand five last year there was a scene.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
People need better timing, I really need better time. There
are charts for this kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Guy.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
To be fair, the World Cup dates were locked in
a long time.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, four years ago.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Guy, celebrate another time whatever it is, birthday and the
first three weddings.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
We mean that in jest because it obviously doesn't worked
for everybody when you want it to.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
But if you're in that situation. What would you do?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'd go to the birth of my child.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, I'd play in the World Cup?

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Okay, cool, no worries.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
What if you what if you got the call out
to play for the Blues?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Mate, I wouldn't. What if you asked to play for
Australia and the World Cup?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
You'd go to the birth of your first child?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Even before you did your name, you thought you were all.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, but yeah what There's a lot of sports people
get put in this situation. It's not it's an uncommon
thing to hear, and I guess it's their choice. It's
it's their moment.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Here was one for you. You get to interview macklimore
from the delivery room, not the.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Look I was hoping to. Okay, what would you do
in this situation?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Is there the concept?

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Can you make a case?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Think?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Or what do you reckon?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Brant from Valley Waters? What would you do?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
I reckon the chances of playing? There a second World
Cup of Prudy slim. He'm just staying age. Like you know,
sea section, pre planned sea section.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Surely you can get that stuff out of the road
before you've.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Got the business.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Is it that right?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Brett get that out of the way, Get out of this,
get out of the way the late.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
And besides, you know he'll have another child, possibly even
with someone different like.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know, oh my god, you're hilarious perspective.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Okay, all right, it's a special sports person. Every chance
is going to go for a younger model in a
couple of years, So I'll have a younger one.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, but he'll be he'll be watching the next World Cup.
He won't be playing in it.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Okay, and you'll see her first born.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, Jackie from Venora point, this actually happened to you?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
What what it did?

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Happen to me? Yes? So my husband was playing about
being in Italy and they were playing to make it
to the top year, the top team, and I knew
it was going to happen. So I gave him the
past and said, you know what he's saying, mine all
back to Australia. Has to bake you for myself.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Are you a kid?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
What?

Speaker 4 (04:43):
No? I am serious. So only we came back I
think two days after I had the baby, and then
we got to meercancy passports. Well back over to Italy.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Tell me they won?

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I think, thank you the top Basically, yes.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Okay, and did he is? He continued on with a
career in sports.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
He did? We were ever I thinks, oh my god, Jacob.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I was thinking if like that was his one off
and needed his ankle, like, could it just be.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
He was pretty good?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
No?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, he played for Italy and you know he's really
freaking wow.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
That is an amazing story, Jack.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
I didn't let him do that. He wouldn't get a
first successful as he was.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
So that is And have you gone on to have
more children?

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah, that was my last son. So that was my
second one, my first one I had in his brands.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay, so it wasn't his first born, No, it was
his second.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Is his first daughter, first daughter?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh yeah, wow, you're amazing.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
That is the be a good story.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
These two are potty trained. It's a shame so much
that comes out of him. House, slow and be Trev