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Kiriakou on soccer
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 1 recorded interview · Last updated
John Kiriakou's public reversal on football, a sport he had dismissed since his teens on the strength of a Saturday Night Live joke about a match between Yemen and Saudi Arabia being decided early by an insurmountable one-nil lead. Watching the 2026 World Cup, he concluded he had been wrong.
Kiriakou on soccer is a reversal John Kiriakou announced on air in July 2026, having held the opposite view since he was a teenager.
The original verdict
His starting position was categorical: “I have never liked soccer. I have always found it to be the most profoundly boring sport that has ever been invented.”[1]
He traces it to a single joke. As a teenager he saw a fleeting reference on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update to a match between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, which the sketch said had been decided early when Yemen built an insurmountable one-nil lead.[2]
His reaction was that the joke had proved the case: a sport so boring that one-nil wins the game, in which the players merely kick the ball back and forth.[3]
The reconsideration
What changed was a deliberate test. Kiriakou decided that with seven billion people loving the game and himself not, he must be missing something, and concluded that he was. “Once you learn the strategy of it, okay, I admit I was wrong.”[3]
He watched the World Cup and found it exciting, supporting Germany, France and Brazil to lose on the grounds that they always win, and getting his wish when all three went out.[4]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
