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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.
