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Footylosopher
by Soccertes
Soccer is the single greatest metaphor for human life on this planet. It's a battle, it's a war. It's the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, or an exercise in futility. Just like all the parts of your life.Footylosopher takes the worldview of footy fans and applies it to social and historical events.
Episodes
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Is it Ethical to Attend World Cup 2022?
With future travel back on everyone's mind, we take a look toward the next most important global destination event--The FIFA World Cup 2022. This one was controversially awarded to Qatar back in 2010. Since then FIFA itself has been decimated in an FBI corruption bust and the nation of Qatar has...
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Soccer Based Travel
We all like to travel with a purpose. For some it's to immerse themselves in a new culture. Some want to see history first hand. Others want to leave their stressors behind for a relaxing vista and a modicum of peace from responsibility. Whatever your passion is, experiencing it in a foreign land...
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Waking Diego Maradona
The world has lost some of it's color. The passing of Diego Maradona doesn't just affect the soccering world, but the world at large. He was a larger than life personality that had a global spotlight both on and off the pitch. Part of what drove him to become one of the player he was drove his…
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Musings: Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona was a larger than life figure, but he was as much a cautionary tale as he was an inspiration.
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Why Do Nations Compete?
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete. -Charles Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin International competition seems to be a relatively new endeavor. The idea that one nation would assert it's dominance over another through sport seems as natural as breathing. In fact, when...
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Queen's Park FC and The Scotch Scientists
You can't begin to discuss the first International Football Match without first establishing the first Non English Football Club. Glasgow's Queen's Park Football Club was established in 1867 in a most unceremonious manner. It did however go on to shape the game of football for most of the world…
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Kobe Bryant and Celebrity Soccer Fans
Kobe Bryant spent an important part of his childhood in Italy where he grew a love of the game of soccer. A natural talent in basketball, his destiny was set. He did, however, apply tactics and strategies of soccer to his basketball game and in so doing, elevated his game, and the game of his...
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Charles Alcock and the FA Cup
Charles William Alcock was a major player in the formation of the structure of English Football we know today. A Harrow boy, and avid Cricketer, he needed a sport to play during the winter months when Cricket was on hiatus. He, like many others, turned to the pitch to play football; or what…
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Early Codification Part 3: The FA
Five years after the Sheffield Rules were first written down a solicitor from West London became "the first person to write down the rules of soccer". Popular opinion seems to favor Barnes founder Ebeneezer Cobb Morley as the father of modern football. Though he never lived in or very near to...
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Early Codification, Part 2: Sheffield Rules
The two men that had more to do with football codification than anyone else were Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest; or as I lovingly call them: Pres-Wick. These all around athletes competed in everything from pedestrianism to potato sack races. From jumping competitions to fencing. It's…
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Early Codification, Part 1: The Public School Game
Between the Mob Football of medieval Europe and the the game of football that we know today, there was a rather turbulent period of codification. Starting from the 14th Century, schools would play their own variation of football. These games would differ greatly from campus to campus; so much so...
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Cortes and the Aztec Influence
When Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes arrived in present day Mexico he encountered the Aztecs; a massive civilization with a dynamic and thriving culture In his pursuit of power, fame and a fortune of gold Cortes decimated a welcoming civilization with war and pestilence. Mistaken for the god...
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Shrovetide Part 1
Keywords: Shrovetide, Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Ashbourne, England, Medieval Football, Soccer, Hug Ball, Mob Football, Hugball, Henmore Brook, Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, Tom Boulton Lear, Tom Boulton-Lear, Plasters
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Soccer Takes Balls
The evolution of soccer has been dependent on the evolution of the ball used to play it. Charles Goodyear was one of history's greatest innovators. Sadly, he was also one of history's most tragic figures. His pursuit of vulcanizing rubber did not cease even thru unimaginable hardship. He lost his...
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Prehistory
There's a lot of people out there that claim their country or region...or even empire, invented soccer. They might not be wrong. Soccer is that unique universal game that saw it's origins evolve independently across the globe. It seems there's nary a culture that's ever trod the earth that hasn't...
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The Growth of Footy in America
It's been about 23 years since the proclamation that soccer has arrived in America and twenty one years since the birth of Major League Soccer. This episode we talk to Shakara Robinson, a non soccer fan, about her awareness of soccer in America and how it's grown over the last couple of decades....
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Camus and the Absurdism of Goalkeeping
Camus said "Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football". With guest Juan Fernandez we discuss the formative years of Albert Camus, philosopher, journalist, Author and Nobel Laureate. Camus spent his formative years playing what he considered to be the most...
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Niyakko Rush
In our inaugural episode we talk with Jason Hicks, founder of Niyakko Rush Soccer Club, and Goshen Carmel, Filmmaker and Niyakko Alum. Niyakko Rush was started when Jason found a group of refugee children playing soccer in a dirt lot at their apartment complex. The kids didn't have proper grass…
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What's Footylosophy?
Footylosopher It’s a clumsy portmanteau but I couldn’t imagine anything more appropriate. Philosophy is the love of wisdom. And a philosopher is one who pursues wisdom. The inherent fault in our pursuit is the assumption that there is a universal truth to all things. That cultural variances and...
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Soccer is the single greatest metaphor for human life on this planet. It's a battle, it's a war. It's the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, or an exercise in futility. Just like all the parts of your life.Footylosopher takes the worldview of footy fans and applies it to social and historical events.
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Soccer is the single greatest metaphor for human life on this planet. It's a battle, it's a war. It's the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, or an exercise in futility. Just like all the parts of your life.Footylosopher takes the worldview of footy fans and applies it to social and historical...
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Footylosopher is created and hosted by Soccertes.
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