"Almaty is closer [to] the Great Wall of China than it is to Buckingham Palace. It was a major stop on the Silk Road. It's a football-mad city and the temperatures get way below freezing."

Welcome to the mind of Nico Cantor, where every Champions League goal is a passport stamp and every matchday is a crash course in world trivia. As the conductor of The Golazo Show, Paramount+ 's whiparound broadcast that stitches together Europe's most chaotic afternoons, Cantor doesn't just keep up with the action, he elevates it.

With each goal, he drops a cultural nugget or historical gem that makes you smarter without slowing the pace. By the end of each matchday, you'll know who scored in every game, and why a goal in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, might matter just as much as one in Madrid

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