About this episode

The Sweeper Podcast explores extraordinary global football stories from around the world.

Welcome to The Sweeper Podcast. Each week, we bring you the most extraordinary global football stories from across the 211 FIFA countries and beyond. New episodes are released at 8pm UK time every Tuesday. For bonus podcasts every Thursday at the same time, sign up at patreon.com/sweeperpod.

People in this episode

Hosts: Lee Wingate, Paul Watson

Topics covered

• global football stories
• FIFA countries
• weekly podcast
• soccer
• sports

Keywords

• football
• soccer
• FIFA
• podcast
• sports
• global stories
• weekly

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Sweeper Podcast, FIFA

Places: UK

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