The best Championship Manager player ever

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A collection of Witness History episodes, looking at how young men in Africa have been exploited through football and and sex-selective abortion in India. Presented by Max Pearson.

For millions of gamers all over the world Tonton Zola Moukoko is a cult hero. The Swedish-Congolese footballer found fame as a brilliant player in the computer game series Championship Manager. But in the real world, things were very different. African football expert and journalist Oluwashina Okeleji reports on the historic treatment of young African footballers as they try to break into European professional leagues.

And we hear from feminist activist Manisha Gupte in India, who has campaigned against sex-selective abortion, eventually raising enough awareness to bring about a national law in 1994 - the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act.

(Photo: Tonton in front of screenshot of Championship Manager. Credit: Tonton Zola Moukoko)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,
0:10.1	a collection of this week's witness history episodes. This week will be in
0:14.0	1970s Albania where the Stalinist leader Enver Hodger led a stifling regime.
0:19.2	The dictator and indisputed omnipotent leader, Enver Hodgea, controlled everything in the country with the tightest iron grip.
0:28.0	So no one could get in, no one could get out.
0:30.0	Also the origins of Rwanda's umiganda or clean up days.
0:34.3	A little black book written by a mother to protect young African American men from police brutality.
0:39.8	And we go to India for the history of sex selective abortion.
0:44.0	In this case technology was being used to further gender discrimination.
0:48.0	Some wantedness and not unwantedness always existed,
0:51.0	but this technology actually made it possible.
0:55.0	That's all coming up later in the podcast.
0:57.0	But before that, we have a curious story which blurs the boundaries of the real world and the virtual.
1:03.5	For millions of computer gamers, Tontan Zolo Mukoco is a cult hero.
1:09.0	The Swedish Congolese footballer found fame as a brilliant player in the computer game series Championship manager.
1:16.2	In the real world things were very different.
1:18.4	He never managed to break into Derby County's first team during his time with what was then an English Premier League side
1:24.2	and in his personal life there were moments of immense tragedy he's been sharing his story with
1:29.2	Matt Pintas.
1:30.3	It's late summer 2001 in the English city of Darby.
1:35.0	16 year old Tonton Zola Macoco is preparing for his first season
1:40.0	with the Premier League football side, Derby County.
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