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 • 48 episodes
The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
Latest Episodes
Reformation Day Special: David Kilpatrick's 95 Theses (plus updates from Leeds on Red Bull, and from me on the former Chicago Red Stars)
Martin Luther (not the King) nailed 95 protest theses against the Christian church of his day to a church door in Germany on October 31st 1517. And Protestants , properly understood, have been protesting ever since. As we near "Reformation Day"...
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Season 3
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Episode 47
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1:27:33
Rayo Vallecano and its Neighborhood: An Unusual Spanish Fall Break Destination
Today, we are taking a Fall break trip to Vallecas, a working class neighborhood in the Spanish capital Madrid. La Liga - the Spanish first league - holds global appeal chiefly due to its two dominators and their massive global following. Howev...
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Season 3
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Episode 46
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1:13:03
The Devil Came to Yorkshire: Leeds United and Red Bull
The McDonald’s on Elland Road in Leeds, near the stadium of Leeds United, is, apparently, the only McDonald’s there is that has removed any element with the color red. Because Red, that is Manchester United, the rose of Lancaster in the badge o...
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Season 3
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Episode 45
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Emancipation and Migration: Hakoah Vienna, Austria's Jewish Champion 1925
In a bit of a parallel episode to Episode 24 ("The Footballer who Defied the Nazis? The Myth of Matthias Sindelar"), this is the story of Hakoach Vienna. A child of central European Jewish emancipation movements and of the "muscular religion" f...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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1:17:32
Football Utopias: An English-Language Exclusive on Creating Better Footballing Worlds with Alina Schwermer
To critique the state of our world, our communities, to critique what is wrong with soccer in late stage capitalism is one thing. It actually isn’t a hard thing. But to dream, think and even plan for a better world, and a better football, that ...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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