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The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.

Philipp Gollner

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.

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All Episodes

87:33

Reformation Day Special: David Kilpatrick's 95 Theses...

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2024/10/28

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 "Reformation Day" again, David Kilpatrick, a Professor of English and Sports Managment, channels that spirit of protest to the world of soccer. His play...

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73:03

Rayo Vallecano and its Neighborhood: An Unusual...

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2024/10/15

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 following. However, there are wonderful and many layered stories of politics, local pride, past glories and regional conflict below that shiny surface....

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75:00

The Devil Came to Yorkshire: Leeds United and Red Bull

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2024/09/30

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 the badge of Manchester City. And roses, as well as soccer shirts, in Yorkshire are white… except until this Summer, when two red bulls, the logo ...

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77:32

Emancipation and Migration: Hakoah Vienna, Austria's...

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2024/09/16

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 religion" fashionable at the time, the Jewish club became Austria's first professional champion in 1925, subsequently lost its important players t...

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72:40

Football Utopias: An English-Language Exclusive on...

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2024/09/02

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 football, that is something different entirely. Alina Schwermer, a young and extremely talented German journalist, has done just that, on 450 pages, i...

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58:46

Iceland to Moldova in 50 Minutes: The Joy, Madness...

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2024/08/19

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 LuxemburgIf you know where these places are, have some sense of what it looks like there, what the vibe is, perhaps it is because of the early UEFA club competitions' qualifying rounds. It is for me. If it isn't for you yet, it's time it was. I know I’ve often...

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75:45

"This Is Our Club!" The Summer Wind that Might Become...

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2024/08/05

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 for kids and seniors, so called concession tickets. And for once, English fans seem to get organized and cooperative in resistance. Wolverhampton, To...

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76:01

Summer Round-Up: Sturm Graz, GAK, Degerfors, 1860,...

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2024/06/24

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 sensational champions league and cup winning seasonFabio Schaupp, also from Graz, on the promotion of Graz’s other team, GAK, to the Austrian Bundesliga, so regular Graz derbies from now own.Fredrik Rakar, chairman of Degerfors IF in Sweden, on a dramatic relegation ...

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69:24

Support Your Local Club! Goshen City FC, and...

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2024/06/10

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 and build a community. The overarching theme of The Assistant Professor is that football is not merely about goals and stars. It is, done properly, a participatory culture, an identity-forging community and even a political space. And to experience any of these aspec...

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77:58

The 777 Files: Investigating the Strange...

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2024/05/27

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 research on the backstory, money trail and flat out baffling activities of a group called 777 partners. Their activities in the insurance and airplanes business would be a story well worth telling in and of itself, but they feature here today because they own stakes...

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72:54

(No) Mustard at Continental Europe's Oldest Soccer...

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2024/05/13

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 that the answer is the same as to the Ricola cough drop question? The Swiss did! Well, technically English students living in Switzerland, but nevermind - the year was 1879 and the place was right near St. Gallen, Saint Gallen, and the continent’s oldest soccer club ...

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60:45

Soccer is for the Fans? England’s proposed “Football...

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2024/04/30

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76:12

Hertha Berliner SC: In Memoriam Kay Bernstein

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2024/04/15

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88:14

Time Travel to Europe's Wild East: Stalinist Albania...

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2024/03/18

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67:36

Rush Episode! German Bundesliga Investor Deal Dies...

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2024/02/21

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38:00

A Soccer Culture Playlist 2.0 - 12 Football-Related...

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2024/02/19

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72:16

How (not) to be a Premier League Tourist - with...

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2024/02/05

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82:01

Trauma, Diversity and Fanaticism: Israel and Soccer...

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2024/01/22

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72:39

At a Soccer Crossroads: Polish Football Culture in...

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2024/01/08

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31:33

The War Game: a Holiday Read-Aloud

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2023/12/25

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