of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which kicks off Nov

out to Latin artists who are big fútbol fans to ask what the

second installment, we spoke to Ecuadorian pop singer Johann Vera, who is a self-declared soccer

“What Fútbol Means to Me,” as told to Billboard

memory with soccer, now that I’m thinking about it, was in Guayaquil in my

to be honest, I’m not the biggest soccer fan but I understand the euphoria

that for Ecuador’s first World Cup in 2002, I was about six years old, and

of seeing an entire country united is not produced by anything else

could be facing a bad situation but that goal changes everything

wanted to do a song for my country and I thought it was very