We live in an age of vanishing cultures, perhaps even banishing nations.

To be a Frenchman, to be an American, is a limited notion.

Educated people do not practice local customs or eat local food.

Products have flown around the world.

We are losing diversity but gaining harmony.

Those who resist this will be left behind by history, we are told.

But the Basques are determined to lose nothing but is theirs,

while still embracing the times, cyberspace included.

They have never been acquainted people,

and have managed to be neither backward nor assimilated.

The central concept in Basque identity

is belonging. Welcome to

What It Was the Football History podcast. I'm Jonathan Wilson.

I'm with Rob Draper. And that

was the historian Mark Kalanski

in the Basque history of the world.

And Rob, today we're looking

at our second part of our mini-series

on where football might be going next. Are we entering a post-Guardiola world? So in the first

part, we looked at Guadiola at the impact his football at Boston had, both that he played at

Byn and the city, and the influence he had on others. And then today

we're looking at what might be next and we're focusing particularly on the Basque School and

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