The People’s Game Podcast #35 – 7/16/14

On today’s show, two of the foremost academics who study the significance of global football join Alan and Meleiza. Laurent Dubois reflects on the dynamically surprising 2014 World Cup, and shares his experiences as an active member of the futbol Twittersphere. Robert Edelman, one of the world’s preeminent sports historians and a Russia scholar, looks back on this year’s tournament and forward to the meeting of the kleptocrats – Blatter’s FIFA and Putin’s Russia – in 2018.