Month: July 2010

Listen to The People’s Game Radio Interview with Ziggy Marley Ziggy Marley tells about his experiences in South Africa: attending matches; playing a free concert for the people of Soweto; and reflects on the Pan-African solidarity expressed at the Cup. http://www.thepeoplesgame.org/Ziggy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Listen to The People’s Game Radio Interview with Sean Ingle Sean Ingle is the sports editor for guardian.co.uk – and, if you haven’t seen the Guardian’s World Cup coverage, in my opinion you haven’t fully experienced the 2010 World Cup. It’s astonishing – as vast as it is excellent – and it’s politically progressive too.…

Listen to The People’s Game Radio Show for Wednesday July 7, 2010 Today’s show was live on KPFK Radio & features a roundtable discussion with Jennifer, Alan, Pablo, and Tony about Spain’s dominating victory over Germany – followed by dialogue on the film Zidane; the influence of Johan Cruyff on both Dutch and Spanish football;…

Listen to The People’s Game Radio Interview with David Goldblatt Alan talks with David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer, about the 2010 Cup in the context of the history of the sport, and of society. http://www.thepeoplesgame.org/Goldblatt.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

The People’s Game Radio Show for Tuesday July 6, 2010 32 years later, Holland returns to the final with a more-thrilling-than-expected 3-2 victory over Uruguay. We speak with Uruguayan blogger Lazar Treschan, and a diehard Dutch devotee, Fernando Romero. Then, in our featured interview, we talk with David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round:…

The People’s Game Radio Featured Interview with David Winner In honor of the Holland reaching their first World Cup final in 32 years – here’s the complete interview we did with David Winner, author of the sacred text Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football – truly one of the greatest books ever written…

The People’s Game Radio Show for Monday July 5, 2010 Roundtable with Jennifer, Pablo, and Alan. Much discussion on the justice of Suarez’s save, German flair and strategy, and whether world cup matches tell us much about societies around the globe. The LA Times’ Hector Tobar joins in to talk about ESPN’s inappropriate slight of…

The People’s Game Radio Show for Sunday July 4, 2010 Today’s show features an interview with Pitzer College Professor Nigel Boyle, who taught the most popular course in the history of his college this past year: “The History and Political Economy of World Soccer.” At the end of the course, the students made predictions about…

The People’s Game Radio Show for Saturday July 3, 2010 We begin today’s show with Josephina Schmidt from Alpine Village in Torrence CA where 900 euphoric Germany fans watched the rout of Argentina – then, in the round table, Jennifer, Alan, and Pablo discuss the ascendant Germans and look back on the life of Robert…

The People’s Game Radio Show for Friday July 2, 2010 The tournament’s, and then the home-continent’s, favorite fall in a day of ridiculously dramatic action. Nick Green from 100% Soccer joins Jennifer, Alan, and Fernando to review the matches and preview tomorrow’s. Uruguayan blogger Lazar Treschan relates the joy of surviving cardiac arrest. Then Miguel…