African football in the 21st century and the unstoppable commercialization of the World Cup — The Age of Football introduction and chapter one
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🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Haven't read the book? Trust us and listen anyway! Daryl and The Athletic Soccer's George Quraishi are using introduction and chapter one of David Goldblatt's book The Age of Football as the jumping off point for a discussion about the commercialization of the World Cup, and soccer in 21st-century Sub-Saharan Africa.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Daryl. Thank you for listening to The Total Soccer Show. Today's episode is the first of our book club episodes. But if you haven't read the book, don't turn off. Here's why. It's not like we're reading a work of fiction, like a novel, and you have to know the plot in order to enjoy a |
| 0:20.9 | conversation about the book, right? We are reading The Age of Football by David Goldblatt, |
| 0:26.5 | which is all about the state of soccer in the 21st century. And on today's show, George |
| 0:31.8 | Croatia, you know him as the managing editor of the athletic soccer, joins me to talk about the |
| 0:37.1 | issues raised in the |
| 0:38.9 | introduction and the first chapter of David Goldblatt's book, The Age of Football. Before we get |
| 0:44.7 | to all that, I want to let you know today's episode of the Total Soccer Show is sponsored by the Salvation |
| 0:49.5 | Army. Your donations can help those affected by COVID-19, find help and hope. |
| 0:55.3 | To give, ask your smart speaker to make a donation to the Salvation Army |
| 0:59.2 | or make your gift at Salvation ArmyUSA.org. |
| 1:03.8 | That's Salvation ArmyUSA.org. |
| 1:06.6 | I will put the link in the show notes so it's easy to click. |
| 1:25.0 | Music I will put the link in the show notes so it's easy to click. Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer show. |
| 1:29.0 | My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by the man who I've been referring to as Florida Taylor. |
| 1:35.5 | His name is George Qureshi. |
| 1:37.5 | Hello. |
| 1:39.0 | Hello, hello, hello, Daryl. |
| 1:40.5 | How are you? |
| 1:41.4 | I'm good, thanks. |
| 1:42.2 | Did you hear that recent reference? |
| 1:43.5 | It was a couple episodes ago. We kind of decided that, because we're going to be doing this book club, right? We're talking about David Goldblatt's book today, The Age of Football. The best pairing to do it was me and you, because maybe you and Taylor were too similar. Oh, yeah. I mean, I think that's true, but also it's a real power move to call me out in the very first, like, minute of the show. Because I am a regular listener, but I did not hear that reference. And so, um, oh, that's good. We can add one future download to that. |
| 2:09.1 | Totally. You own me. No, you're, you're auto downloaded. So you get the downloads, even if I don't listen. |
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