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NPLH Studio

Welcome to NPLH Studio home of conversations with the creative minds shaping the world’s game.From photographers and filmmakers to grassroots organisers and cultural storytellers, we go beyond the pitch to uncover the people moving the game forward. I’m your host, Joseph Fordham, Thanks for tuning in — Let’s get into it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56. Killian Page

NPLH Studio ·

2024/05/21

Killian Page is a Boston born, San Francisco based Director, Photographer and Producer.If you're not familiar with the name, don't worry he hadn't heard of me either. But you will have seen his work with San Francisco City FC.Killian details his childhood discovery and love of photography before sports and all the other things that go with being a teen temporarily re routed his path until re-arming himself with a camera whilst studying Industrial Psychology on the West Coast.Post college he

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1:15:06

55. Pete Hoppins

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2024/05/14

Pete Hoppins has a career path to pique your interest. After studying fashion in Northumbria UK, he found himself in London designing for Box Fresh. Wanting a change, he shouted "I'm a designer, get me out of here" and headed to Amsterdam for a role at Nike. They packed him off to Portland, Oregon where he'd eventually become Design Director for the sporting behemoth. Then he sacked it all off to run a pub!From creating designs for football's elite to creating community in his adopted home via the

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54. Aaron Durand

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2024/05/07

Aaron Durand is the Sports Marketing Manager at Avery Dennison and arguably the nicest guy in showbiz. He explains the role Avery Dennison plays within football and beyond (spoiler alert - they're everywhere) and gives a fascinating insight into how they can and will change the way the game is watched.We also rewind through career stints at Twitter, Adidas and youth counselling, and chat dogs, family, photography, and Andrei Kanchelskis. Lots to take away throughout on career opportunities, work

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1:07:05

53. Casey Peckio

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2024/04/30

If you know Virginia Dream and Vermont Green you’ll know the work of Casey Peckio; the US designers fingerprints are on the output of both clubs, not least Virginia. Their 2024 jersey release (you know the one)had all of our eyelashes fluttering in their direction and Casey shares details on the process behind it, why he works with clubs like these, how they push him as a creative and what this path gives him that playing the game didn’t.He also offers his perspective on seeking growth in his field,

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1:07:28

52. Sarah Van Vooren

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2024/04/23

As co-founder of Atoot, the grassroots non-profit using football to empower young girls of rural Nepal, Sarah Van Vooren is doing what I’d call God’s work. And the good news is she’s not the only one!Sarah shares the origins and mission of Atoot along with the impact it and other organisations like it has on the individuals involved and the communities they are a part of.For good measure, she walks us through her own route into the ‘sports for development’ landscape which though has seen her work in

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DiDi Haračić

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2024/04/16

DiDi Haračić is the goalkeeper for NWSL side Angel City.With a job like that it’d be easy to wrap up the intro there. But DiDi lives somewhat of a double life – when she’s not stopping shots, she’s taking them.Off pitch, DiDi finds peace (and therapy) through her lens, the ocean and often a combination of the two.We talk about both her photographic and football journeys, their similarities and how the foundation laid by her parents armed her with a resilience to meet the challenges of both.In DiDi’s

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1:14:10

Tarek Pertew

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2024/04/09

Aside from being an incredibly handsome man, Tarek Pertew is CEO and co-founder of NYC Footy, the co-ed league initially formed 'for fun' back in 2010.Fourteen years on, Footy has not only consolidated itself in the city, but has grown into the largest amateur league in the United States whilst only existing inside the boundaries of the Big Apple. For now,at least!Tarek discusses the off-pitch battles that come with running the league, the cost to not only his own experience of the competition, but

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Maximilian Mansfield

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2024/04/02

Mack Mansfield is President and CEO of USL newcomers Brooklyn Football Club and Executive Director of Two Bridges Football Club, a non-profit dedicated to enriching New York’s inner-city youth through a first-class soccer environment, intense academic preparation, and leadership development.But before that, he was a young player with a dream of becoming professional and that dream took him to Germany with stints at the academies of Schalke and Cologne.Mack shares the impact that dream ending had on

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1:09:42

Jordan Jesolva

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2024/03/26

Enjoying the podcast? Support the show with caffeine here. Jordan Jesolva is one third of Neighborhood Sports Club, the creative collective using football, fashion and art to build community for the people of Oakland, California.That’s pretty cool, but we don’t really talk about that.Instead, Jordan shares the origins of her football love story, that playing professionally was the only option she ever saw for herself and how that dream was met with constant opposition from her body.No bitterness in

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Amy Drucquer

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2024/03/19

Enjoying the podcast? I wouldn't say no to a coffee. Support the show here. This week I’m joined by This Fan Girl founder Amy Drucquer. And occasionally her coffee machine.Amy charts her journey from childhood match days with her dad and the sense of belonging that came with those, to the wilderness years of early adulthood when football stadiums no longer felt like home.Knowing this wasn’t a feeling unique to her and with a creative itch to scratch, Amy began an ambitious photographic project

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Dylan Autran

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2024/03/12

Dylan Autran is one third of creative Collective Neighborhood Sports Club.A childhood desire to carve a career as a player saw him collect a few stamps on his passport via France, Finland and Norway.It was in the latter where the early seeds of NSC were sewn and a flight home to California, to turn out for hometown club Oakland Roots, would open the doors back to a childhood when football wasn’t about finding the next contract, but a vehicle for creative expression and a gateway to connection and

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1:11:16

Nikita Taparia

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2024/03/05

This was an easy one for me.I asked Nikita Taparia how one comes to live a dual life as a mechanical engineer and prolific photographer in the NWSL. She did the rest.From early exposure as a child, taking photos of friends and its role in her studies, Nikita details how the medium, a love of geometry and a helping hand from Geography would open up the game to her in a way she’d never imagined - or anyone else for that matter.In time, it would take her across state, the country and, eventually, the

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1:06:04

Max Ornstil

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2024/02/27

Max Ornstil is a former pro athlete turned entrepreneur and creative from Oakland, California.He shares the challenges of transitioning from a life with a very clear path and identity, to one without either as one third of the creative collective Neighborhood Sports Club.Falling in love with the game aged five, Max lived out his boyhood dream in exchange for a number of sacrifices along the way only for someone else to tell him when the dream was over.Where that door closed, a world of possibilities

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Paul Desbailletts

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2024/02/20

Paul Desbaillets is a Canadianentrepreneur, media personality and founder of the charity GOAL.Our first conversation came in the midst of the pandemic, when his podcast, The 1st Half was in its embryonic stages.Picking up four years later, the show, his businesses and the charity continue to thrive and it only took about 4 minutes of this call to understand why.Paul details how life in hospitality lends itself well to building a successful podcast, the karmic origins of the charity, why community is

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Andrea Vílchez

NPLH Studio ·

2024/02/13

Andrea Vílchez is a Florida-based photographer at the beginning of what promises to be an exciting career.Still four months from graduation at the time of recording, Andrea already boasts a portfolio of work from the NWSL, WNBA and MLS, not to mention the Grand Prize Award of Club Eleven’s North American Soccer Photograph of the Year contest – congratulations!She shares her family's journey from Nicaragua to Florida, how the game helped her adapt to life in a new country and how picking up a camera

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Daniel Sandison

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2024/02/06

Daniel Sandison is best known in the football space for founding seminal indie magazine MUNDIAL, way back in 2014.We spoke at the very beginning this year about the early days of the publication, how it evolved from a spare-time project to an internationally recognised brand over the following decade, and adjusting to life after the mag.But there’s plenty more to his story than the successes of MUNDIAL. Dan shares how his creative journey began with a love of film and wanting to make them, before

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Jacqui McAssey

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2024/01/30

Jacqui McAssey is founder of GIRLFANS, the photo zine pushing for increased female fan visibility, as well as a leading voice on female representation through campaigns with Nike, Liverpool and COPA90.As well as the progress made during 10 years of GIRLFANS, we discuss the early influence of Liverpool’s victory parades during the 80s, the importance of play in formative years and activism through creative output.A self-confessed non-academic student with a GCSE in needlework, we learn how she went

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1:34:43

Nathen McVittie

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2024/01/23

Nathen McVittie is a Creative Strategist across the sports, gaming, music and entertainment spaces.In the football landscape his fingerprints can be found on the work of well-known brands such as FIFA, MLS, Nike and Adidas, along with leading clubs such as Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City. He’s also co-founder and Creative Director of Where is Football – one of the most respected independent outlets in the game.But we don’t really talk about any of that. Instead, we touch on trauma, its impact on

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1:01:43

Geoff Gouveia

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2024/01/16

US artist Geoff Gouveia takes us through his journey from cutting his teeth on the unloved buildings of Riverside, CA to working with leading brands such as FIFA and Adidas.He recalls how an inspirational trip to Brazil in 2014 during a crossroads in his career planted the seeds for a change in direction and how he set about making that happen on his return home –including cross country flights for coffee!Geoff’s career shows us how backing yourself publicly and an air of tenacity are often as

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Corey Pellatt

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2024/01/09

Corey Pellatt is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Versus, the media platform championing football and its influence on music and culture.Corey shares the influences and inspiration behind his chosen career path, the circumstances and mission behind the creation of the influential platform, and the responsibilities that come with it.There’s also sound advice on self-care, the importance of fulfilment in your work and connecting with passions outside of it. __A quick reminder that NPLH is more than

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