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.
How Are They Now? Season 1 Reunion with 7 Visiting Professors of Football (song links in the shownotes)
Today's Season 1 wrap-up is a tour of Europe in 1 hour. Some listeners contacted me with the same great idea: check in with a lot of the visiting professors from season 1 again, and have them tell us briefly how they are now, and how things went. So I called all those with whom I talked a while ago about a club, a country, an ongoing situation, to look back at the season that was, the stories, the joys and the problems of soccer that were. Somewhere toward the end I’ll also say who the top 3 downloaded episodes of the season were, so hang tight. All the guests for today are, in the order that they appeared here:
Matt Ford, for United We Stand on Manchester United
Katerina Chernii, center for Contemporary Historical Research, Potsdam Germany on Ukraine
Eva Lotta Bohle, Germany 2nd Bundesliga Podcast on Arminia Bielefeld
Viktor Asp from Football Stockholm on the three Stockholm teams
Andy Payne, Hammers United
Claus Melchior, 1860 Munich
Christian Hummer, Tivoli12 on Wacker Innsbruck and, by implication, Los Angeles FC
Most of them also bright a song, so you will also hear these interesting soccer songs today:
Marc Antoine Charpentier - Te Deum (Prelude)
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Gogol Bordello - Києве Мій (Kyiv My Dear)
Ed Sheeran - A Beautiful Game
Dinamo Ja Volin
Cross Wires - Drowning
Lustfinger - Löwenmut (live at 1860)
Die Toten Hosen - Steh' Auf Wenn Du am Boden Bist
Barrio Collete - Souris Chérie
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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/