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HEADSHOTS LA On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Rand Getlin, director-executive producer of the HBO documentary “U.S. Against the World: Four Years With the Men’s National Soccer Team,” discusses the road to the World Cup and the rising popularity of men’s and women’s soccer in America.
Getlin spent more than four years documenting the road to the World Cup tournament that runs June 11 through July 19 in cities across the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Getlin was a longtime NFL reporter for NFL Network and other outlets. A chance encounter with team member Tyler Adams in 2018 — after the U.S. men’s national team failed to qualify for that year’s World Cup — led Getlin to start a production company with his wife, producer Janina Pelayo, in order to produce what became the five-part docu-series “The U.S. Against the World.” In 2022 Getlin and his partners went “camera’s up” on a verite-style doc that tells a story of sacrifice, commitment and brotherhood as the men’s team members rally in the hopes of winning the first men’s World Cup for the U.S. The U.S. women’s national team, on the other hand, has logged four World Cup wins from tournaments in 1991, 1999, 2015 and 2019.
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