Discussing the persistence of racism in Italian soccer w/ Leander Schaerlaeckens

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Taylor talks to Leander Schaerlaeckens about Sergino Dest's looming choice between the United States and Netherlands, as well as the factors that may play a part in making that decision. They then move on to discussing Leander's recent article for Yahoo Sports: https://sports.yahoo.com/italian-soccers-pathetic-refusal-to-acknowledge-racism-is-obstructing-meaningful-change-162831063.html Why does racism seem so prevalent in Italy and why hasn't more been done to address it? Sponsors! Today's show is brought to you by Hello Fresh! Go to http://hellofresh.com/TSS80 and use code TSS80 for $80 off your first four boxes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.
0:18.7	I'm your host Taylor Rockwell, no day old girl with me.
0:21.3	He should be back in studio tomorrow.
0:23.5	But instead, I'm going to be talking about some slightly difficult topics with Mr. Leander
0:28.2	Scharlockens of Yahoo Sports, also a lecture at Marist College.
0:32.8	We're going to be getting into Serginio Desk.
0:34.8	There are some news today about his sort of decision to play for the Netherlands of the
0:39.0	United States.
0:40.0	It's not bleak.
0:41.0	Don't worry, US fans, but it's not like the best news either.
0:43.6	It's somewhere in between.
0:44.6	But we get into that and kind of what may influence his decision.
0:48.2	Then we kind of focus primarily on an article the Ender recently wrote for Yahoo about
0:52.6	sort of racism and seria.
0:54.5	Why there seem to be so many more instances of it this season and why it hasn't been
0:58.6	dealt with, there's logic behind the failure to deal with it and how it allows Italian officials
1:04.2	to continue to not deal with it.
1:05.8	We close out by talking about sports journalism in the modern era.
1:09.4	Again, maybe those aren't the most lighthearted of topics, but I would say they are the most
1:13.0	useful and necessary topics to be discussed.
1:17.1	And Leander does so with a plum.
1:18.8	I'm not sure what that word means, but I'm pretty sure it means with grace and skill,
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