I migliori Culture Soccer podcast (2024)

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Reformation Day Special: David Kilpatrick's 95 Theses (plus updates from Leeds on Red Bull, and from me on the former Chicago Red Stars) 1:27:33

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Martin Luther (not the King) nailed 95 protest theses against the Christian church of his day to a church door in Germany on October 31st 1517. And Protestants , properly understood, have been protesting ever since. As we near "Refo…

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Rayo Vallecano and its Neighborhood: An Unusual Spanish Fall Break Destination 1:13:03

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Today, we are taking a Fall break trip to Vallecas, a working class neighborhood in the Spanish capital Madrid. La Liga - the Spanish first league - holds global appeal chiefly due to its two dominators and their massive global foll…

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The Devil Came to Yorkshire: Leeds United and Red Bull 1:15:00

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) The McDonald’s on Elland Road in Leeds, near the stadium of Leeds United, is, apparently, the only McDonald’s there is that has removed any element with the color red. Because Red, that is Manchester United, the rose of Lancaster in…

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Ep. 196 - Hurricane Alley 1:31:24

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Catching up on current and past events while we've been away, Devin, Greggo, Marc, and TK cover the Arsenal-Man City and the fallout, we explain the new UEFA Champions League format, and we dip back and give our thoughts on US Soccer (finally) hiring Mauricio Pochettino to be coach of the USMNT. We discuss the future of FTCUTD and more in 2UP/2Down…

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Emancipation and Migration: Hakoah Vienna, Austria's Jewish Champion 1925 1:17:32

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) In a bit of a parallel episode to Episode 24 ("The Footballer who Defied the Nazis? The Myth of Matthias Sindelar"), this is the story of Hakoach Vienna. A child of central European Jewish emancipation movements and of the "muscular…

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Football Utopias: An English-Language Exclusive on Creating Better Footballing Worlds with Alina Schwermer 1:12:40

2M ago1:12:40

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) To critique the state of our world, our communities, to critique what is wrong with soccer in late stage capitalism is one thing. It actually isn’t a hard thing. But to dream, think and even plan for a better world, and a better foo…

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Iceland to Moldova in 50 Minutes: The Joy, Madness and Method of the UEFA Club Tournaments' Qualifying Rounds 58:46

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Gent in Belgium. Rasgrad in Bulgaria. Mostar in Bosnia. Borås in Sweden. Tiraspol in, well, Moldova. Or Differdange in Luxemburg If you know where these places are, have some sense of what it looks like there, what the vibe is, perh…

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"This Is Our Club!" The Summer Wind that Might Become a Fall Storm in England 1:15:45

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) If you follow a club that plays in the English Premier League, you may have gotten wind of it: over the Summer, quite a few clubs increased their season ticket prices, and phased out - or partially phased out - discounted tickets fo…

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Ep. 195 - Noogas in Paris 1:38:23

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Greggo, Dev, Mean Marc, and Sylvs chop up the first week of the Olympics in Episode 195. We hit on the "controversy" of the opening ceremony, the successes of both the US Men's and Women's soccer teams, as well as other performances we've peeped during week 1. Following up on our last episode we recap the firing of Gregg Berhalter from the USMNT an…

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Ep. 194 - Grouped in the USA 1:27:59

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In Episode 194, Greggo is joined on Henny Derby Day by Sylvs from Shea Butter FC and Yogi of Can I Kick It to have the big discussion on the fallout of the US Men's National Team crash out of Copa America, and what's next for the team and for head coach Gregg Berhalter. We also go into a quick review of the Euros so far and Jude Bellingham's emerge…

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Summer Round-Up: Sturm Graz, GAK, Degerfors, 1860, Bayern Munich, Olympique Marseille, FC St. Gallen, Bundesliga Investors, Football Tourism 1:16:01

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) The end of Season 2 of The Assistant Professor of Football is nigh, and we check in with guests from the last year to hear how their club, cause or research have been doing. Here are, in order: Peter K Wagner on Sturm Graz’s sensati…

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Support Your Local Club! Goshen City FC, and Semi-Professional Soccer in Small-Town America 1:09:24

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Goshen, Indiana is home to a private college without an American Football team - and, most recently, a semi-professional soccer club that serves as an - albeit unusual - case study for how grassroots soccer in the U.S. can thrive an…

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The 777 Files: Investigating the Strange Multi-Club-Owner that Wants to Buy Everton 1:17:58

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Today's episode is a mix between soccer detective story and true crime podcasting. British investigative journalist Paul Brown is our Visiting Professor for the day. He and his colleague Philippe Auclair have piled up pathbreaking r…

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Ep. 193 - Quadruple City feat. Max Ramos & CrunkChocolate 1:13:21

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Follow us on social media! Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and now Threads! TikTok @ftcutdpod! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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(No) Mustard at Continental Europe's Oldest Soccer Club: FC St. Gallen in Switzerland 1:12:54

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) We begin with the Eurovision Songcontest and end with Sturm Graz's cup win, but consider, most of all, FC St. Gallen. Saint who? True, if I would ask you who invented club football in Europe in continental Europe, would you guess th…

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Soccer is for the Fans? England’s proposed “Football Regulator” and the Struggle for the Soul of the Game 1:00:45

7M ago1:00:45

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) The excesses of global soccer capitalism are well documented on this podcast. Perhaps no footballing country is more affected than England, the birthplace of the modern game and home to arguably the wealthiest clubs and league. To t…

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Ep. 192 - The Carolina Core feat. Eddie Pope 1:21:40

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Back for April, and FTC comes with gifts! Thanks to our crazy Black History League Draft, in today's episode we spin the block with a true US soccer legend- We have US Soccer Hall of Famer, DC United icon, and Carolina Core FC Chief Sporting Officer Eddie Pope on the show for a special interview! We tap in and discuss the Carolina Core project, the…

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Hertha Berliner SC: In Memoriam Kay Bernstein 1:16:12

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Kay Bernstein was elected the president of Hertha BSC, then in the 1st Bundesliga, in June 2022. He died at his home near Berlin on January 16th of this year, with Hertha being in the 2nd Bundesliga. What sounds like a short and - o…

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Time Travel to Europe's Wild East: Stalinist Albania and Soccer 1:28:14

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) "The era is brought to life by the accounts of Albanians who lived through it, which capture the importance of football to a populace starved of any other source of communal enjoyment. The otherworldliness and innate cruelty of the …

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Ep. 191 - Alphabet Crimes feat. USL VP of DEI Chris Busey, Ph. D 2:09:30

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Getting in gear for our sixth year of serving the intersection of Black Culture and Soccer! In the first show of 2024, Greggo, Coach, and Devin link up with the Vice President of DEI with USL, Dr. Chris Busey to discuss the progress with bringing racial equity into USL Lower League soccer, his journey into the game, and how the recent news of the U…

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Rush Episode! German Bundesliga Investor Deal Dies Live on Air with Raphael Molter... 1:07:36

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) ... of all people! Raphael is a German political scientist, whose book "Peace to the Terraces, War to the Federations and Leagues" is a pathbreaking materialist critique of "modern soccer" - the game as purely an entertainment marke…

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A Soccer Culture Playlist 2.0 - 12 Football-Related Songs from 8 Countries 38:00

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Indie, Hip Hop, Punk, Reggae, Ska and Choruses- from Leeds to Istanbul, from Vienna to Mexico City, from Darmstadt to Buenos Aires. Your second soccer playlist is here - with some background info, and plenty of quirky football lyric…

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How (not) to be a Premier League Tourist - with Felipe Tobar 1:12:16

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) If you are thinking of dreaming of going to England, seeing a Premier League game, dive into the atmosphere that you see on TV, or even have concrete travel plans already to finally see one game of the club you otherwise follow on T…

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Trauma, Diversity and Fanaticism: Israel and Soccer after October 7th 1:22:01

10M ago1:22:01

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) I thought today’s episode needed a long rationalization. But as I was writing it, I thought f*** it, I don’t need to be doing verbal gymnastics. I know human beings, there, and our guest does too. So we’ll just let these stories spe…

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At a Soccer Crossroads: Polish Football Culture in the 21st Century 1:12:39

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Just a few weeks ago, Poland elected a new parliament. The result was a change in power, from the national conservative camp to the centrist, pro-European one. And the campaign, yet again, highlighted, to use an overused term, the c…

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The War Game: a Holiday Read-Aloud 31:33

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) A mini audiobook - for the time to think in the evenings after the presents have all been unwrapped, or for a listen with the children: As the story goes, on Christmas 1914, during world war 1, in the trenches of Belgium, German and…

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Europe's Multicultural Bellwether and it's "Crazy Club:" The Wild Ride of Olympique Marseille 1:23:22

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) An arranged marriage of a Greek and a Celt began the settlement of Massalia, today: Marseille. Europe’s bellwether of multiculturalism, 2nd city of France, one of Europe’s biggest ports, migrant destination for centuries, cauldron o…

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Ep. 190 - FC Friendsgiving w/ Shea Butter FC 1:43:09

12M ago1:43:09

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Reunited for the holiday Friendsgiving episode is Greggo and TK and at long last the ladies of Shea Butter FC, coming back a trip down the road to San Diego for the NWSL Championship which saw Gotham claim their first NWSL chip over a fallen Megan Rapinoe and OL Reign. We recap their Championship Week experience and coming to glances with famous be…

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FC St.Pauli: Rebellion and Commercialization, Punk and Social Work 1:13:15

1y ago1:13:15

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) FC St. Pauli is a 2nd Bundesliga team from Hamburg. That’s one thing. It is also "Germany’s original cult club," an "antifascist pioneer," the "club of punk and techno, or a "swashbuckling left wing club." The history behind these l…

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Cooler Little Sisters: The Graz Derby in Austria, Sturm vs. GAK 1:27:53

1y ago1:27:53

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) On Thursday, November 2nd, the second largest city of Austria, Graz, will see its second soccer derby in the last 16 years, in the Austrian cup tournament. Sturm Graz, currently leaders of the Austrian Bundesliga and Europa League s…

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The Footballer who Defied the Nazis? The Myth of Matthias Sindelar, and the Myth of Austrian Victimhood 1:21:36

1y ago1:21:36

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) Matthias Sindelar was, and is, the most famous Austrian footballer between World Wars 1 and 2. Known for his elegant style of play during a period when Austrian soccer was admired as an innovative model, he defined Austria’s nationa…

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NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or signup) It's the first episode with American guests - and the first one with three of them. For this episode of The Assistant Professor of Football, I am joined by three (real) professors who regularly teach, in American university classroo…

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