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Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt and real soccer stars share what ‘Ted Lasso’ gets right

“Ted Lasso,” the award-winning Apple+ comedy series that earned a record 20 Emmy nominations last week, is a soccer show that’s not really about soccer. So what do people who really are about soccer think of it? Here’s what some of them said:

They got the locker room right

“You laugh at the way that the players interact and the banter that they have and you kind of remind yourself of your locker room. There’s definitely truth to all those things that are happening in the locker room, all the things that are happening on the field, off the field, with the fans.