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? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

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Is it Ethical to Attend World Cup 2022?

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? Footylosopher.com @Footylosopher --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Soccer Based Travel

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. https://footylosopher.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Waking Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona was a larger than life figure, but he was as much a cautionary tale as he was an inspiration. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Musings: Diego Maradona

 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? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Why Do Nations Compete?

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message

Queen's Park FC and The Scotch Scientists

Kobe Bryant spent an important part of his childhood in Italy where he grew a love of the game of soccer. A natural talent in basketball, his destiny was set. He did, however, apply tactics and strategies of soccer to his basketball game and in so doing, elevated his game, and the game of his opposing teams, perhaps forever. He remained an influential ally to the growth of US Soccer and helped bring fandom of the beautiful game into the American mainstream.  We also look at other celebrity soccer fans and how their visibility can transform the attitudes of the uninitiated, and possibly lead them to the light. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message

Kobe Bryant and Celebrity Soccer Fans

Charles William Alcock was a major player in the formation of the structure of English Football we know today. A Harrow boy, and avid Cricketer, he needed a sport to play during the winter months when Cricket was on hiatus. He, like many others, turned to the pitch to play football; or what passed as football in the 1850's. After school, Alcock co founded his own team (Forest Football Club) but struggled to find opponents that played by the same set of rules his club had adopted. While history can't seem to agree on whether or not Alcock was present at the Morley meetings that created the Football Association, his team was a charter member of the FA.  Alcock's sportsmanship and drive for competition led to him proposing an idea of a sudden death championship complete with ornate trophy. As captain of one of the winningest clubs in the FA, he lifted the cup 5 out of the first 7 years. He also organized the first international exhibition match pitting England against Scotland in 1870. Alcock would die a journalist, writer, perennial founder of things, and leader of two major sports. His grave is still a place of honor as his headstone itself is a cross embossed with an image of the FA cup he was instrumental in creating. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Charles Alcock and the FA Cup

Five years after the Sheffield Rules were first written down a solicitor from West London became "the first person to write down the rules of soccer".  Popular opinion seems to favor Barnes founder Ebeneezer Cobb Morley as the father of modern football. Though he never lived in or very near to Sheffield, it is unlikely he was not aware of the rules set forth by William Prest and Nathaniel Creswick. We examine his rules up against the Sheffield Rules and it's really hard to deny that they are simil --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Early Codification Part 3: The FA

The two men that had more to do with football codification than anyone else were Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest; or as I lovingly call them: Pres-Wick. These all around athletes competed in everything from pedestrianism to potato sack races. From jumping competitions to fencing. It's possible that their sport of choice was cricket, or maybe Sheffield just didn't have enough organized sports to quench their thirst for competition. To while away the winter season, that dreary time after cricket --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Early Codification, Part 2: Sheffield Rules

Between the Mob Football of medieval Europe and the the game of football that we know today, there was a rather turbulent period of codification. Starting from the 14th Century, schools would play their own variation of football. These games would differ greatly from campus to campus; so much so that intercollegiate play was virtually impossible. Eton College became the first school to write down a list of basic laws of the game in 1815, but Cambridge and Sheffield had the greatest impact on the moder --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Early Codification, Part 1: The Public School Game

When Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes arrived in present day Mexico he encountered the Aztecs; a massive civilization with a dynamic and thriving culture In his pursuit of power, fame and a fortune of gold Cortes decimated a welcoming civilization with war and pestilence. Mistaken for the god Quetzalcoatl, Cortes was given access to the Aztec Ruler Montezuma (Monctezuma) II and took full advantage of his instant status among the upper echelons of society. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Cortes and the Aztec Influence

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Shrovetide Part 1

The evolution of soccer has been dependent on the evolution of the ball used to play it. Charles Goodyear was one of history's greatest innovators. Sadly, he was also one of history's most tragic figures. His pursuit of vulcanizing rubber did not cease even thru unimaginable hardship. He lost his fortune and his family to give us the world we know today, and perhaps the most important thing he gave us was the leather soccer ball. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Soccer Takes Balls

There's a lot of people out there that claim their country or region...or even empire, invented soccer. They might not be wrong.  Soccer is that unique universal game that saw it's origins evolve independently across the globe. It seems there's nary a culture that's ever trod the earth that hasn't been filled with the uncontrollable urge to kick stuff. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/support

Prehistory

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.

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