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Soccer 101

Is nepotism a thing in professional soccer?

Soccer 101

TSS

Sports, Soccer

4.9822 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Short answer: kinda, but not really.


Longer answer:... you'll have to listen to the episode, but we discuss some of the most famous father-son duos in soccer history, as well as why there aren't as many father-daughter or mother-daughter duos (yet).


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0:26.8

Mmm, that spices things up.

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the product recommendation service from the New York Times.

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For independent product reviews and recommendations for the real world,

1:00.1

come visit us at NYTimes.com slash Wirecutter. Thank you. Welcome everybody to soccer 101.

1:19.6

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week it was announced that Cristiano Ronaldo's 14-year-old son has been called up to the Portugal U-15 national team for the first time.

1:30.4

Cristiano de Santos, to give him his proper billing, currently plays for Al-Nasser in Saudi Arabia,

1:36.0

which is not coincidentally where his father plays club ball, and that is our entry point into the strange world of nepotism in soccer, our topic for the week.

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