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 • 54 episodes
The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
Latest Episodes
In the Way of the Chainsaw: Are Argentina's Famous Clubs to be Privatized?
There is a lot to say about Argentina and football that we are not saying today. There is a lot about Argentina and football that we are saying today. We’re even saying things about saying things about football in Argentina: Christopher Hylland...
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Season 3
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Episode 53
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1:14:50
State of the Unions: In the Heart of the European Union, at Royal Union St. Gilloise in Brussels
The EU, Europe's great post-war peace project, can feel beleaguered today. Global and continental uncertainties collide, and things are complicated in Brussels, Belgium, the heart of the European Union. Two clubs from that capital survived in t...
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Season 3
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Episode 52
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1:13:26
Norwegian Cruise: No VAR Spotted Up and Down the Coast
Norway is regularly listed among the "happiest countries in the world." It is one of the wealthiest too, and its not a country with revolutionary fervor. It’s not France. It’s not even Germany. Yet the Video Assistant Referee, known widely as V...
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Season 3
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Episode 51
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1:13:47
Deck the Halls and Turn the Tables: TAPoF as the interviewee (AI-translated from German)
Thank you for making 50 Episodes of The Assistant professor of Football possible! Whether you celebrate anything this season or not, I hope these days are refreshing for you, hold people and emotions if you want that, and space to breathe in if...
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Season 3
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Episode 50
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53:29
SC Freiburg at 120: A New History Book, a New Stadium, and Good Old Modesty
SC Freiburg, a former yoyo club from a pretty progressive town on the very southwestern edge of Germany is now firmly established in the Bundesliga. The club is 120 years old this year, and just a few days ago published its first investigation ...
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Season 3
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Episode 49
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1:27:15
