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Footylosopher Soccertes
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Soccer is the single greatest metaphor for human life on this planet. It's a battle, it's a war. It's the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, or an exercise in futility. Just like all the parts of your life.
Footylosopher takes the worldview of footy fans and applies it to social and historical events. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/footylosopher/support
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Is it Ethical to Attend World Cup 2022?
With future travel back on everyone's mind, we take a look toward the next most important global destination event--The FIFA World Cup 2022.
This one was controversially awarded to Qatar back in 2010. Since then FIFA itself has been decimated in an FBI corruption bust and the nation of Qatar has been carefully scrutinized. We're even seeing some countries begin the discussion of boycotting the games all together.
As fans, we ask the question: Is it ethical to travel to Qatar for World Cup 2022?
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Soccer Based Travel
We all like to travel with a purpose. For some it's to immerse themselves in a new culture. Some want to see history first hand. Others want to leave their stressors behind for a relaxing vista and a modicum of peace from responsibility. Whatever your passion is, experiencing it in a foreign land is an unforgettable thing.
So why wouldn't these podcasters plan travel around soccer games?
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Waking Diego Maradona
The world has lost some of it's color. The passing of Diego Maradona doesn't just affect the soccering world, but the world at large. He was a larger than life personality that had a global spotlight both on and off the pitch. Part of what drove him to become one of the player he was drove his life straight toward the grave. Join us to reflect on the man, the myth, and the legend that was, and will always be, Diego Maradona.
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Musings: Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona was a larger than life figure, but he was as much a cautionary tale as he was an inspiration.
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Why Do Nations Compete?
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
-Charles Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin
International competition seems to be a relatively new endeavor. The idea that one nation would assert it's dominance over another through sport seems as natural as breathing. In fact, when one looks at the timeline of human existence competition on behalf of a country happened just as soon as it possibly could. All the ingredients were there: defined borders became more of a reality just as advancements in transportation shrunk the globe exponentially. The first modern era Olympics were design to be an international affair, even though the ancient namesake was not. So why do nation's seem compelled to compete?
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Queen's Park FC and The Scotch Scientists
You can't begin to discuss the first International Football Match without first establishing the first Non English Football Club. Glasgow's Queen's Park Football Club was established in 1867 in a most unceremonious manner. It did however go on to shape the game of football for most of the world in the last part of the 19th Century. The team established a style of collaboration and teamwork heretofore unknown to the beautiful game. It was this combination method of play that would be given the moniker "Scientific Football" for the very thoughtful and deliberate distribution of the ball. This scientific style would emigrate with it's Scots to inform the game on multiple continents, as well as the birthplace of the sport itself. Scotland would send ripples through the sporting world that would lead to competition on a whole new level...a national level.
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