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The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History. — 86 episodes
An Austrian and an Indian walk into the World Cup...
Season Round-Up with Guests and Music! Titles, Finals, Chaos, Hope, and Relegation
World Cup 1994: An American Game, Revisited
Eurovision Reactions: a Special Episode with Phil Harrison
2/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious
1/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious
Small Town, Big Story: FC Thun's Long Road to an Unlikely Championship
The Beautiful Game and the Fragile Democracy - with Political Scientist Cas Mudde
FK Bodø/Glimt: the history and community behind the headlines
Rush Episode: Bodø/Glimt, fresh off the plane from its Champions League fairytale
Europe's "Jew Clubs:" On Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax Amsterdam, Bayern Munich and Austria Vienna with Pavel Brunssen
Liverpool F.C, a Global People's History: Alan McDougall on his new book
Go West, and Grow up Playing Soccer! How do so many internationals play for American Colleges?
Salzburg's Actual Soccer Club: The Austria Will Outlast You All - Even Red Bull
Holiday Read-Aloud & Christmas-themed Chants: "Kane and the Christmas Football Adventure" (no, not Harry)
"Lost a Bet:" Soccer, Gambling, Addiction - and the Power of Recovery
Soccer History is American History
2/2 England's State of Emergency - and Football's: Book Talk with the venerable David Goldblatt
1/2 England's State of Emergency - and Football's: Book Talk with the venerable David Goldblatt
No More BS: It's Boycotts this time, at West Ham
Behind the Scenes on a UEFA Conference League gameday, at Slovenian upstarts NK Celje
Ivica Osim, Open Wounds (2/2): Live from Sarajevo, and from my own Story
Ivica Osim, Open Wounds (1/2): A Roadcast through Bosnia, and through my own Story
Berlin, Berlin! Hertha, Union, Babelsberg, TeBe, Tasmania, Türkyiemspor, Maccabi (+ an update from Freiburg and a bonus song on Viennese workers' football)
Why Everyone from Söder Watches Women's Sports: The European Journey of Hammarby IF's Women
Summer Round-Up: Union St. Gill, Arminia Bielefeld, West Ham, Rayo Vallecano, Leeds United, Argentina
A 98 Year-Old, Member-Run Soccer Club in America? Meet Fort Wayne S.C. Plus: Eurovision!
We're Not Playing for Fun! Organized Workers' Soccer, Utopia (and Sobriety) between the World Wars - and the Message for Today
Part 2 – The Heart of St. Pauli, or: What Should We Then Sing? Soccer Clubs, Museums, and the Work of Remembering
Part 1 – The Heart of St. Pauli, or: What Should We Then Sing? Soccer Clubs, Museums, and the Work of Remembering
Back to the Grassroots: The English Non-League Day on March 22nd
Rush Omnibus! Behind the Scenes on the Recent Wins for Fan Activists in the Premier League - and recent Losses in Chicago
In the Way of the Chainsaw: Are Argentina's Famous Clubs to be Privatized?
State of the Unions: In the Heart of the European Union, at Royal Union St. Gilloise in Brussels
Norwegian Cruise: No VAR Spotted Up and Down the Coast
Deck the Halls and Turn the Tables: TAPoF as the interviewee (AI-translated from German)
SC Freiburg at 120: A New History Book, a New Stadium, and Good Old Modesty
A Multi-Club Owner in Conversation: Matt Rizzetta, American Money and Southern Italian Pride
Reformation Day Special: David Kilpatrick's 95 Theses (plus updates from Leeds on Red Bull, and from me on the former Chicago Red Stars)
Rayo Vallecano and its Neighborhood: An Unusual Spanish Fall Break Destination
The Devil Came to Yorkshire: Leeds United and Red Bull
Emancipation and Migration: Hakoah Vienna, Austria's Jewish Champion 1925
Football Utopias: An English-Language Exclusive on Creating Better Footballing Worlds with Alina Schwermer
Iceland to Moldova in 50 Minutes: The Joy, Madness and Method of the UEFA Club Tournaments' Qualifying Rounds
"This Is Our Club!" The Summer Wind that Might Become a Fall Storm in England
Summer Round-Up: Sturm Graz, GAK, Degerfors, 1860, Bayern Munich, Olympique Marseille, FC St. Gallen, Bundesliga Investors, Football Tourism
Support Your Local Club! Goshen City FC, and Semi-Professional Soccer in Small-Town America
The 777 Files: Investigating the Strange Multi-Club-Owner that Wants to Buy Everton
(No) Mustard at Continental Europe's Oldest Soccer Club: FC St. Gallen in Switzerland
Soccer is for the Fans? England’s proposed “Football Regulator” and the Struggle for the Soul of the Game
Hertha Berliner SC: In Memoriam Kay Bernstein
Time Travel to Europe's Wild East: Stalinist Albania and Soccer
Rush Episode! German Bundesliga Investor Deal Dies Live on Air with Raphael Molter...
A Soccer Culture Playlist 2.0 - 12 Football-Related Songs from 8 Countries
How (not) to be a Premier League Tourist - with Felipe Tobar
Trauma, Diversity and Fanaticism: Israel and Soccer after October 7th
At a Soccer Crossroads: Polish Football Culture in the 21st Century
The War Game: a Holiday Read-Aloud
Europe's Multicultural Bellwether and it's "Crazy Club:" The Wild Ride of Olympique Marseille
FC St.Pauli: Rebellion and Commercialization, Punk and Social Work
Cooler Little Sisters: The Graz Derby in Austria, Sturm vs. GAK
The Footballer who Defied the Nazis? The Myth of Matthias Sindelar, and the Myth of Austrian Victimhood
The Shirt: A Material History of Soccer, from Rags to Fashion and Cotton to Polyester
The Homeless World Cup: A Former Champions League Player and a Social Entrepreneur on Soccer's Transformative Power
Mr. Präsident: FC Bayern, a Holocaust Survivor, and the Almost Forgotten History of one of Europe's Most Famous Clubs
Moldy Oranges in Karl-Marx-City: Berliner FC Dynamo, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Forgotten Past of East German Soccer
How Are They Now? Season 1 Reunion with 7 Visiting Professors of Football (song links in the shownotes)
“Ordinary Morality is for Ordinary Football Clubs” - the Visions of Dulwich Hamlet F.C.
The Flight of the Bumblebee: Live from Degerfors in Sweden's Rustbelt, a Football Family on Soccer's Big Stage
Live from East London: Clapton CFC - Left-Wing Soccer on the Pitch that Fans Mowed
Teaching Soccer: Three Actual Professors of Football on their College Classes, and Soccer Literacy in the U.S.
California Dreamin': Who is Wacker Innsbruck, the new Austrian Partner of Los Angeles FC?
An Englishman Among Italian Ultras: Stadium Culture, Passion, and the Vibe of Calcio, with Richard Hall
A Soccer Culture Playlist - Preliminary Punk, Ballads, Ska and Indie About Fans, Footballers and Clubs
Fan-Tastic Females: A Digital Exhibit on Women in Soccer Supporter Cultures
1860’s Lions, “Munich’s Great Love” in the 3rd Division (finally with a new microphone!)
Extra: 30 seconds of Supergrass - and a new mic!
Hammers Unite! Lessons on Fan Involvement from East London
The Match That Started a War? Dinamo Zagreb and the Conflicts of Croatian Nationalism
Nordic Cool? Stockholm’s 3 Heated Soccer Rivalries
Soccer vs. the State: Radical Politics and the Beautiful Game
Support your Local Team: Terraces, Towns & Tunes of Germany’s 2nd Bundesliga
Ukraine through the Lens of Soccer: Kateryna Chernii in Conversation
Boycott Qatar? A View from Germany
Soccer Against Fascism: A Guided Tour through Europe with Chris Lee
The Manchester United Protests, and the Super League Crisis, One Year On - with Matt Ford