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 • 62 episodes
The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
Latest Episodes
Why Everyone from Söder Watches Women's Sports: The European Journey of Hammarby IF's Women
Daniel and Romina are dear, longtime listeners of the podcast. Back in April, I sat down with them at their kitchen table in Stockholm to work out the story behind the many images that circulated online last season: a stunningly large mob of ac...
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Season 3
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Episode 59
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1:20:45
Summer Round-Up: Union St. Gill, Arminia Bielefeld, West Ham, Rayo Vallecano, Leeds United, Argentina
With Ana Ascencao e Silva, Eva Lotta Bohle, Andy Payne, Alex Kirby, Paul Reidy, Wayne Gamble, Christopher Hylland - on their club's or cause's season, what happened since we talked, and what the outlook is like at the moment. Plus, each guest p...
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Season 3
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Episode 58
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49:43
A 98 Year-Old, Member-Run Soccer Club in America? Meet Fort Wayne S.C. Plus: Eurovision!
Fort Wayne is a city of around 260,00 in the very east of the northern half of Indiana. Like many mid-sized midwestern cities, it has been shaped by the industrialization of the late 19th century, immigration waves from Western, Central a...
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Season 3
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Episode 57
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1:09:59
We're Not Playing for Fun! Organized Workers' Soccer, Utopia (and Sobriety) between the World Wars - and the Message for Today
Gabriel Kuhn is an Austrian writer and researcher who works for the Central Organization of Swedish Workers - and sat for an in-person interview (he has been on before when we talked about his wonderful book Soccer vs the State in 2023...
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Season 3
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Episode 56
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1:09:18
Part 2 – The Heart of St. Pauli, or: What Should We Then Sing? Soccer Clubs, Museums, and the Work of Remembering
This is the second part of a two-part episode - the first part is here, episode 54, from March 31.We will start at FC St. Pauli, now in the German Bundesliga, at the club...
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Season 3
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Episode 55
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1:00:09
