The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
The academic treatment for English-speakers who get that soccer is more than gamedays, stars and goals. Who wonder about the histories, subcultures and politics that make the game so different from many American sports cultures; and who care about a critical take on soccer as a global capitalist machine. A European-guided journey, with one expert "visiting professor" each episode.
Podcasting since 2022 • 67 episodes
The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
Latest Episodes
No More BS: It's Boycotts this time, at West Ham
It's a fall of unrest in East London again. Hammers United, the largest organized fan group at West Ham United, has so far refrained from calling on members of the board or the CEO to resign. Until now. They have launched the campaign "No More ...
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Season 4
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Episode 64
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1:09:21
Behind the Scenes on a UEFA Conference League gameday, at Slovenian upstarts NK Celje
Before the Conference League anthem came on in Celje Slovenia, one warm August night this year, today’s guest had a lot of work behind him already while I was was on my way via train, uber and rental car from Bosnia. He is Rok Gregoric, press a...
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Season 4
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Episode 63
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Ivica Osim, Open Wounds (2/2): Live from Sarajevo, and from my own Story
This is Part 2 of an unusual episode, on the move through countries, memories, wounds, war, peace and the beautiful game.Sturm Graz is and was a workers club when I came to the club in the 90s, one year before Ivica Osim arrived. We knew...
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Season 4
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Episode 62
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41:53
Ivica Osim, Open Wounds (1/2): A Roadcast through Bosnia, and through my own Story
Sturm Graz is and was a workers club when I came to the club in the 90s, one year before Ivica Osim arrived. We knew he was a mathematician, soccer player and coach, and he knew workers clubs, from Željezničar, in Grbavica, back home in Sarajev...
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Season 4
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Episode 61
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49:35
Berlin, Berlin! Hertha, Union, Babelsberg, TeBe, Tasmania, Türkyiemspor, Maccabi (+ an update from Freiburg and a bonus song on Viennese workers' football)
Damiano Benzoni, Italian journalist and seasoned groundhopper, has written a wonderful book - an "emotive map of football in Berlin," a rich portrait of a city through the eyes of football. And when that city happens to be the German capital, t...
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Season 4
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Episode 60
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