Futbolera: Women, Soccer and Latin America

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week we speak to the co-author of the new book Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America, Brenda Elsey. We talk about the development of soccer in Latin America among women, the challenges that came with that. We also have a special ‘Choice Words’ update on the case of Braeden Bradforth, the freshman football player that died during an intensive workout. We also have ‘Just Stand Up’ and ‘Just Sit Down’ awards to Reggie Bush for speaking out about the new Alabama abortion ban and a plea that more athletes speak up on this issue. All this and more on this week’s show! Brenda Elsey Twitter: @Politicultura https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/elsey-nadel-futbolera Zirin, A Victory in the Case of Braeden Bradforth https://www.thenation.com/article/braeden-bradforth-death-investigation/ — http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE) — Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	When we interviewed women, I would ask, I would say, how did you even know, you know, in the 1950s and 60s, where to meet up with each other?
0:09.9	And they just sort of looked at me and said, we had this thing called a telephone.
0:14.1	Mm-hmm.
0:14.8	And we would exchange numbers.
0:18.1	And some women told of like sort of literally one woman in Mexico City was talking about being in a park and seeing a woman in a uniform and following University and the author, along with Joshua Nadel of the book, Footballera, a history of women in sports in Latin America.
0:57.9	This is our World Cup preview show.
0:59.8	Very excited about it.
1:01.1	Her name is Brenda Elsie.
1:03.2	So excited to have her on.
1:04.9	She's also the co-host of the Burn It All Down podcast, which I cannot recommend enough.
1:10.4	Also, I've got some choice words about the latest
1:12.3	developments in the Braden Bradford case, the young man who lost his life playing football,
1:18.1	or actually he wasn't playing football. He was involved in non-contact drills at Garden City
1:22.6	Community College in Kansas. In addition, I've got just stand up and just sit your ass down awards and
1:29.0	more. But first, let's go to Brenda Elsie. Brenda Elsie, Footballera, a history of women in
1:36.7	sports in Latin America. What made you tackle this as a topic? Well, Josh and I had both written
1:43.7	our first books on men's, the history of the
1:46.9	men's game, with some research into the women's game. And neither of us were very satisfied
1:53.5	with our own treatment of it. And it just felt like there was so much more there going on.
1:59.0	And we met one another at conferences conferences and we would kind of talk about
2:03.2	an idea for a project about women. And it just sort of came together. And we were very surprised
2:10.1	actually at how much activity there was over the last hundred years in women's soccer in Latin America.
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