The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
by Philipp Gollner
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- 🇺🇸US · Soccer#1795K to 30K
- 🇳🇱NL · Soccer#8510K to 30K
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Season Round-Up with Guests and Music! Titles, Finals, Chaos, Hope, and Relegation
Jun 10, 2026
50m 44s
World Cup 1994: An American Game, Revisited
May 25, 2026
1h 01m 16s
Eurovision Reactions: a Special Episode with Phil Harrison
May 18, 2026
56m 05s
2/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious
May 13, 2026
54m 27s
1/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious
May 11, 2026
47m 30s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/10/26 |  Season Round-Up with Guests and Music! Titles, Finals, Chaos, Hope, and Relegation✨ | season round-upsoccer+4 | Medea Voegeli | FC Thun | Switzerland | season round-upsoccer+5 | — | 50m 44s | |
| 5/25/26 |  World Cup 1994: An American Game, Revisited✨ | 1994 World Cupsoccer in the United States+3 | — | — | Pontiac SilverdomeMichigan+2 | 1994 World Cupsoccer+5 | — | 1h 01m 16s | |
| 5/18/26 |  Eurovision Reactions: a Special Episode with Phil Harrison✨ | Eurovisionsoccer+3 | Phil Harrison | — | AlbaniaVienna+1 | EurovisionPhil Harrison+5 | — | 56m 05s | |
| 5/13/26 |  2/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious✨ | Eurovisionsoccer+3 | — | — | ViennaAustria | Eurovisionsoccer+3 | — | 54m 27s | |
| 5/11/26 |  1/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious✨ | Eurovisionsoccer+3 | — | — | ViennaAustria | Eurovisionsoccer+5 | — | 47m 30s | |
| 5/2/26 |  Small Town, Big Story: FC Thun's Long Road to an Unlikely Championship✨ | soccerchampionship+3 | — | FC Thun | ThunSwitzerland+3 | FC ThunSwiss champions+3 | — | 1h 09m 21s | |
| 4/13/26 |  The Beautiful Game and the Fragile Democracy - with Political Scientist Cas Mudde✨ | democracypolitics+4 | Cas Mudde | University of Georgia | HungaryUnited States+1 | liberal democracyfar right+4 | — | 1h 09m 36s | |
| 3/30/26 |  FK Bodø/Glimt: the history and community behind the headlines✨ | soccercommunity+3 | — | FK Bodø/GlimtUEFA Champions League+4 | Bodøpolar circle+1 | FK Bodø/Glimtsoccer+5 | — | 1h 05m 25s | |
| 3/20/26 |  Rush Episode: Bodø/Glimt, fresh off the plane from its Champions League fairytale✨ | Champions LeagueBodø/Glimt+3 | Freddy Toresen | Bodø/GlimtSporting+3 | — | Bodø/GlimtChampions League+3 | — | 18m 16s | |
| 3/2/26 |  Europe's "Jew Clubs:" On Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax Amsterdam, Bayern Munich and Austria Vienna with Pavel Brunssen✨ | Jewish identityantisemitism+3 | Pavel Brunssen | Tottenham HotspurAjax Amsterdam+2 | — | Jew ClubsTottenham Hotspur+6 | — | 1h 19m 41s | |
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| 2/16/26 |  Liverpool F.C, a Global People's History: Alan McDougall on his new book✨ | Liverpool F.C.people's history+3 | Alan McDougall | Liverpool F.C.Bayern | — | Liverpool F.C.Alan McDougall+5 | — | 1h 02m 34s | |
| 2/2/26 |  Go West, and Grow up Playing Soccer! How do so many internationals play for American Colleges?✨ | American collegesinternational soccer+3 | Luca Puster | Village PeoplePet Shop Boys | — | soccerfootball+3 | — | 1h 00m 00s | |
| 1/19/26 |  Salzburg's Actual Soccer Club: The Austria Will Outlast You All - Even Red Bull✨ | commercialization in footballsoccer history+3 | — | Austria SalzburgRed Bull+2 | — | Austria SalzburgRed Bull+5 | — | 1h 38m 21s | |
| 12/22/25 |  Holiday Read-Aloud & Christmas-themed Chants: "Kane and the Christmas Football Adventure" (no, not Harry)✨ | children's literaturetime travel+3 | — | Football Association | BarnesRichmond+3 | children's booktime travel+3 | — | 38m 38s | |
| 12/16/25 |  "Lost a Bet:" Soccer, Gambling, Addiction - and the Power of Recovery✨ | gamblingaddiction+3 | Thomas Melchior | Fox Sports | — | gamblingsoccer betting+3 | — | 1h 13m 54s | |
| 11/24/25 |  Soccer History is American History✨ | soccer historyAmerican history+3 | Brian Bunk | Beyond the Field: How Soccer Built Community in the United States | United States | soccerhistory+5 | — | 1h 13m 30s | |
| 11/10/25 |  2/2 England's State of Emergency - and Football's: Book Talk with the venerable David Goldblatt | This is PART 2 of a two-part episode. The 1st part aired two weeks ago, and is the most recent on on the Assistant Professor of Football. Please add a like, a comment, a star rating or spread the word by mouth! I was a little starstruck when David Goldblatt showed up on my screen today. His books have done very well for very good reason. You may have read The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football or The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football. David is a sociologis... | 43m 21s | ||||||
| 10/27/25 |  1/2 England's State of Emergency - and Football's: Book Talk with the venerable David Goldblatt | I was a little starstruck when David Goldblatt showed up on my screen today. His books have done very well for very good reason. You may have read The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football or The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football. David is a sociologist, has a part time academic home in the US as well, at Pitzer college in LA, and this one, Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency, is a book for the moment. The thesis is simple: a lot of the spaces for c... | 44m 00s | ||||||
| 10/13/25 |  No More BS: It's Boycotts this time, at West Ham | It's a fall of unrest in East London again. Hammers United, the largest organized fan group at West Ham United, has so far refrained from calling on members of the board or the CEO to resign. Until now. They have launched the campaign "No More BS," targetted specifically at CEO Karen Brady, the B, and chairman David Sullivan, the S. Beyond leafleting, black balloons or protest marches before games, Hammers United are for the first time calling for a match boycott, at West Ham’s next home game... | 1h 09m 21s | ||||||
| 9/29/25 |  Behind the Scenes on a UEFA Conference League gameday, at Slovenian upstarts NK Celje | Before the Conference League anthem came on in Celje Slovenia, one warm August night this year, today’s guest had a lot of work behind him already while I was was on my way via train, uber and rental car from Bosnia. He is Rok Gregoric, press and pr wizard of NK Celje, a Slovenian club that was long a middling in the league of an already small country but has made it to the group phase of the conference league last year and again this year. A remarkable feat for a really pretty quiet city bet... | 1h 14m 16s | ||||||
| 9/15/25 |  Ivica Osim, Open Wounds (2/2): Live from Sarajevo, and from my own Story | This is Part 2 of an unusual episode, on the move through countries, memories, wounds, war, peace and the beautiful game. Sturm Graz is and was a workers club when I came to the club in the 90s, one year before Ivica Osim arrived. We knew he was a mathematician, soccer player and coach, and he knew workers clubs, from Željezničar, in Grbavica, back home in Sarajevo, the city then under a yearlong siege in the Bosnian independence wars. But he added something else. To him, the game was discour... | 41m 53s | ||||||
| 9/1/25 |  Ivica Osim, Open Wounds (1/2): A Roadcast through Bosnia, and through my own Story | Sturm Graz is and was a workers club when I came to the club in the 90s, one year before Ivica Osim arrived. We knew he was a mathematician, soccer player and coach, and he knew workers clubs, from Željezničar, in Grbavica, back home in Sarajevo, the city then under a yearlong siege in the Bosnian independence wars. But he added something else. To him, the game was discourse, it was beauty. He explained soccer to us in a way we’d never seen it. Professorial and sometimes grumpy, but always ex... | 49m 35s | ||||||
| 8/18/25 |  Berlin, Berlin! Hertha, Union, Babelsberg, TeBe, Tasmania, Türkyiemspor, Maccabi (+ an update from Freiburg and a bonus song on Viennese workers' football) | Damiano Benzoni, Italian journalist and seasoned groundhopper, has written a wonderful book - an "emotive map of football in Berlin," a rich portrait of a city through the eyes of football. And when that city happens to be the German capital, torn by wars, shaped by the dvide between two Germanies and various migrant influences, the texture of such a book happens to be particularly interesting. The book, for now, is available only in Italien, so consider this an English language exclusive. We... | 1h 25m 47s | ||||||
| 6/23/25 |  Why Everyone from Söder Watches Women's Sports: The European Journey of Hammarby IF's Women | Daniel and Romina are dear, longtime listeners of the podcast. Back in April, I sat down with them at their kitchen table in Stockholm to work out the story behind the many images that circulated online last season: a stunningly large mob of active supporters in fine voice home and away, tifo and all. This wasn't just one big game in a big stadium for the sake of a record. This was organic, homegrown, ultra-themed. At most European away games, the Bajen supporters outnumbered home fans. What ... | 1h 20m 45s | ||||||
| 6/9/25 |  Summer Round-Up: Union St. Gill, Arminia Bielefeld, West Ham, Rayo Vallecano, Leeds United, Argentina | With Ana Ascencao e Silva, Eva Lotta Bohle, Andy Payne, Alex Kirby, Paul Reidy, Wayne Gamble, Christopher Hylland - on their club's or cause's season, what happened since we talked, and what the outlook is like at the moment. Plus, each guest picked one song - well, except Eva Lotta, who picked two. Union St. Gill, Arminia Bielefeld, West Ham, Rayo Vallecano, Leeds United, Argentina NEW: send me a text message! (I'd love to hear your thoughts - texts get to me anonymously, without charge or... | 49m 43s | ||||||
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