Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist on his new docuseries, “Super League: The War for Football”

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Episode 270 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist, the director and executive producer of “Super League: The War for Football,” which is airing on Apple TV + and chronicles the attempts of teams such as Real Madrid, Arsenal and Juventus to form a breakaway European soccer league. In this episode, Zimbalist discusses his four-part docuseries; the background of why the European super clubs attempted to form their own league; how UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin was able to ward off the breakaway project for now; how to get access from the super-rich; the challenge of recreating events for dramatic purposes; the future of European soccer and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.
0:06.3	As good as it gets!
0:07.6	And you can stream every moment live on Sky Sports.
0:11.3	Well, it's just wonderful.
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0:15.7	Absolutely brilliant.
0:17.6	Stream Manchester City versus Liverpool this Sunday from 4 p.m.
0:21.7	Head to NowTV.com 18-plus Sky Sports content stream via internet.
0:27.5	Full terms apply.
0:37.2	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer's Patrick Antonetti.
0:42.3	This week, our guest is Emmy Award winning filmmaker Jeff Zimbolist, who has a fantastic new docu-series on Apple TV Plus, Super League, the War for Football.
0:56.5	This chronicles the attempts of major European teams such as Real Madrid, Arsenal,
1:03.2	Juventis to form a breakaway European Soccer League in 2021.
1:09.8	And the docu-series takes viewers inside what is just was a remarkable story of greed, excess,
1:21.6	culture, business, the super rich, really, really interesting.
1:26.6	Don't even need to be a big soccer fan to appreciate the filmmaking.
1:30.8	Jeff Zimbolist, by the way, with his brother Michael Zimbolist, the director and producers of the two Escobars,
1:37.8	which remains one of the best projects ESPN has ever done.
1:42.6	So about a 30-minute conversation with Jeff Zimbolist on one of the better
1:46.5	documentaries that has come out over the last couple of years. Super League, the war for football
1:52.4	coming up on the sports media podcast.
1:58.4	As I said at the top, I'm excited to have Jeff Zimbalist on for a number of reasons.
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