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.
The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
Nordic Cool? Stockholm’s 3 Heated Soccer Rivalries
A different kind of city sightseeing, through the lens of AIK, Djurgarden and Hammarby. Viktor Asp, Stockholm-based soccer journalist and cultural observer maps his city's landscape along the lines of a gameday: it's three big clubs, their distinctives, the origins and present of their rivalries, and the growth of Ultra fanculture. And he entertains my questions about the tensions below the surface of Swedish society.
HELPFUL LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
Football Stockholm (with Viktor Asp, in Swedish)
Viktor Asp on twitter
Djurgarden vs. AIK, minor riots in the stand at last year’s derby
Djurgarden vs. AIK, before the derby
Hammarby Ultras, “Best Of” Video
Kindsight, Swedish Punk (Video)
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Artwork for The Assistant Professor of Football is by Saige Lind
Instrumental music for this podcast, including the introduction track, is by the artist Ketsa and used under a Creative Commons license through Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/