Uruguay: The first World Cup and Montevideo’s dance scene
Rabonas & Rhythms Podcast
English - March 12, 2019 05:00 - 25 minutes - 48.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The inaugural football World Cup in 1930 was hosted and won by Uruguay in extraordinary fashion. In this mini-episode we look back at a tournament full of oddities from bizarre suspensions (for running a cafe), suit-wearing refs and a match which lasted 84 minutes. In the music half of the show, we examine the underground sounds coming out of the capital, Montevideo, where vinyl-junkie DJs including Persian cat fanatic DJ Koolt, and Christian Bonanata, have been ripping it up.