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Podcast: BBCollective
Episode: Getting their Kicks: Oligarchical Interests in Soccer
Description: Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts unveil the second installment of our season-long concentration on sportswashing with an examination of global soccer’s role. Two organizations drive the conversation, the Premier League of England and the sport’s global governing body FIFA, or the International Federation of Association Football. Considered by European audiences as a domestic league at the competitive and interest-level of what the NBA and NFL are in the States, the Premier League is among the very hottest of sport-related brands, globally. And the level of exposure and legitimacy created by fidu...