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Podcast: Africa Business of Sport Podcast
Episode: E16: The Business History of the World Cup – Kevin D. Tennent & Alex Gillet
Description: To complement the onset of the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup, the Africa Business of Sport will have a special coverage of the sports business aspects related to the global showcase. In the following week, the podcast brings you conversations with leading professionals in the sport business who have unique perspectives of the World Cup as a business.
In this episode, Edem and Jabu have a wide-ranging interview with University of York’s Kevin D. Tennent and Alex Gillet. Kevin and Alex are leading football history academics and lecturers from the UK and co-authored the chapter “A Brief Hist...