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.
A Soccer Culture Playlist - Preliminary Punk, Ballads, Ska and Indie About Fans, Footballers and Clubs
Back from Spring, or Easter, break, an unusual episode: a - very preliminary, but very varied - playlist of 12 soccer culture songs that you wont find in this constellation on any English-speaking website. From punk perspectives on the game and the fate of Hooligan culture, to ballads about football, God and sexual orientation, from the Antifa ska-punk of Southern Europe to German indie-rock with an FC Bayern strikers’ voice mixed in, from the 1990s to the present - I hope you have as much fun listening to this as I had curating it. As the leagues heat up and the teams we root for seem bound for either glory or desperation (or perpetual mediocrity), here is the musical long view to distract us a little:
Los Fastidios, Antifa Hooligans
Branden Steineckert, Believe RSL
The Business, Terrace Lost Its Souls
Ska P, Como un Rayo (Live in Madrid)
De Höhner, Mir Stonn zu Dir (1.FC Köln, in the stadium)
Stage Bottles, Kick Out the Parasites
Sportfreunde Stiller, Ich Roque
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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/