Day 11 Podcast: Halfway Point; Solidarity vs. Ethno-Nationalism

32 down, 32 to go. We’ve reached a halfway point of sorts, even though it’s only day 11. 50% of the matches have been played in World Cup 2018; with each team having one more game left in the group stage, eight teams know it will be there last while six are already guaranteed another. Meleiza and Alan look forward to tomorrow’s four matches, and backwards at today’s three games through the lens of our troubling political times that sees a rise of ethno-nationalism in Europe; at the very time that diverse sides filled the children of immigrants are prospering on the pitch.

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