Episode 15 | Simon Kuper | Barca, PSG, Messi, and the World Cup | August 2021
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GUQ Professor Danyel Reiche spoke to Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and bestselling author, about Kuper's new book "The Barcelona Complex," as well as the links between Qatar and FC Barcelona, and how Lionel Messi’s recent transfer from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain can be related to the Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022. Simon Kuper(born in Kampala, Uganda in 1969) was educated at Oxford University and Harvard. He writes a weekly column for the Financial Times. He is British but lives with his wife and three children in Paris. His books include "Soccer Against the Enemy" (1994), "Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War" (2003), and Soccernomics (co-authored with Stefan Szymanski, 2009). Kuper’s biography of the British-KGB double agent George Blake, "Spies, Lies, and Exile," was published by the New Press in May 2021. His book "The Barcelona Complex," about FC Barcelona, appears in August 2021 with Penguin Press.
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