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 • 65 episodes
The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
Latest Episodes
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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1:25:47
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
