The best Christmas-themed stadium chants, a a little holiday read-aloud for the lazy time between the years. Regular episodes resume January 19th! theassistantprofessoroffootball.buzzsprout.com/2052670/epis...

Then new #SturmGraz coach, portrayed in the #NYT New York Times this Summer: "I would say that poker and football are both games of incomplete information." www.nytimes.com/athletic/652...

Football and #SportsBettingX - and what to do about that mess. ⚽️> tinyurl.com/4m4p84mx and anywhere you get podcasts

3rd try is the charme - final grading and a busy guest means we're finally taking on sports betting and gambling tomorrow. My apologies for the interruoption of our usual 2-week rhythm! Holiday surprise episode will follow on the 22nd.

U.S. entertainment company uses soccer club to give 14 million of state subsidies to U.S. private equity firm. #modernfootball

Unfortunately, I have to postpone today's episode of The Assistant Professor of Football to next week. Extraneous circumstances for the Visiting Professor, as they say. We will talk about betting in soccer - and a personal journey of addiction and recovery.

In the U.S., the next soccer boom is supposedly always around the corner. But what about the game's history here? From Vermont granite cutters to Hawaiian beaches: Brian Bunk tours with us through the roots of the American game. tinyurl.com/58mnucwk

Austria or Bosnia, I’d put my hat in the ring for either path’s ticket lottery. This #FIFAWorldCup will be harder to ignore for me next year… #autbih

From the rockstar who brought you "The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer," and the man who brought you Tomáš Souček in The Sound of Music: a 2-part episode you better enjoy! Honored to have David Goldblatt. Part 1: tinyurl.com/yej6f23d Part 2: tinyurl.com/nvd7374r

My dad was happy to share his ticket collection from #SturmGraz UEFA Cup run in 1984. It ended against Nottingham #NFFC. We play Forest again today in the #UEL.

The Assistant Professor of Catan approves.

All I'm prepared to say about this, for now, is that the use of pyro photo illustrations to connote "hooligans" and "riots" is really cheap, disingenuous and Murdoch-level. And I think @jonathanliew.bsky.social knows football cultures better than this.

Strandvallen, lovely home of the new Swedish champion Mjällby IF.

… and how it is going…

If you notice the empty seats in West Ham's "soul-less bowl" next home game against Brentford, here is the backstory. #WHUFC #WestHam ⚽️ > tinyurl.com/yv54wraa and anywhere you get podcasts

Mobilization at West Ham #WHUFC again. More in this week’s episode, in a few hours.

Before the Conference League anthem came on in #Celje in #Slovenia for yesterday's win against AEK Athens, today’s guest had a lot of work behind him already while I was was on my way via train, uber and rental car from Bosnia. #UECL ⚽️> tinyurl.com/3m8zu6jw

#SturmGraz with a history lesson of a tifo, referring back to this game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5nC... #STURAN #EuropaLeague

Support your local women’s team #Goshen #GoLeafs

Some more core memories from #zeljeznicar , today’s derby winner and #Sarajevo, before Monday’s episode travels to Slovenia

The 2nd part of the story on Ivica Osim, #Bosnia and #Sarajevo is out today. So no better day to watch a frantic Željezničar win at Grbavica against Borac Banja Luka. The social media people at #sturmgraz apparently thought the same, and were the first ones to congratulate 🖤

Part 2 out today. Live from Sarajevo, #Bosnia - and the immigration check line at Chicago O'Hare airport. Volimo te, Ivica Osim ⚽ > shorturl.at/AlsSN and anywhere you get podcasts

3 weeks ago, I went to #Bosnia. For a reason. Take the roadtrip with me, in Pt. 1 of this episode, live from #Sarajevo tinyurl.com/vzz72fwk - and anywhere you get podcasts

Thank you, Jewels and Bastion Nord #sturmgraz

3 weeks ago, I went to #Bosnia. For a reason. Take the roadtrip with me, in Pt. 1 of this episode, live from #Sarajevo tinyurl.com/vzz72fwk - and anywhere you get podcasts

Today, around noon. (and always on my office door)

Wir fahren nach #Berlin! But not just to #fcunion or #HaHoHe Hertha. An English exclusive with Damiano Benzoni's richly textured soccer-cultural guide through the German capital. Plus a 1920s Viennese workers song, to scare away any new listeners ;) > shorturl.at/7k33n

Collective football mind, who has written well on #Music and #Soccer / #Football? Gunnar Leue in German, and in English?

Austrian public broadcaster ORF with an accidental but fitting thumbnail for Sturm‘s 0-5 in Bodö today #sturmgraz #BODSTU #UCL

One day in #Slovenia - #nkcelje vs #fclugano, #UECL #ConferenceLeague qualifier last week

Finally away with #sksturm #sturmgraz again

Luganesi the true heroes here, after a 0-5 in the first round. 1-1 currently

😆 Unfortunately not in English, but here is the gist: German 4th tier club appealed against a penalty for pyrotechnics. On multiple pages. The problem? They obviously used a hallucinating AI without checking, complete with made-up nonsense sources. The judge rejected the appeal.

If anyone is at the #ConferenceLeague #UECL qualifier #Celje v #Lugano today, say hi! I’ll be in s pressbox - headed there from wonderful #Sarajevo - more on that pilgrimage and its reason in late August

Not pretty. But sexy. #zagreb

Layover in Munich, en route to Zagreb #TSV1860 #1860Munich

The Assistant Professor of Football will be back on August 18. I am traveling the next 2 weeks in Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Austria. If you are around there, say hi! I look forward to a new season! In the meantime, please enjoy the archive: theassistantprofessoroffootball.buzzsprout.com

#WHUFC #Westham isn’t Chicago today for the #PremierLeague summer series. We’re on our way.

And Goshen wins their conference championship Great Lakes title!

And here is the live stream to tonight’s championship game in the @midwestpl.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFE...

Well, shoot.

Respect!

There it is, Goshen. The new team won it, and in very convincing fashion. (I said that they would come in 3rd, for the record). On to the Midwest Premier League Great Lakes Division final, in Dearborn Michigan next week.

The annual TSV Hartberg jersey show from the #Austria #Bundesliga. Not quite enough sponsors, IMO.

The video celebrating last year's title, the 12th championship, of our beloved @UnionStGilloise , is now available on youtube: youtu.be/YtEQZkDlc6A?... #RUSG #JupilerProleage #ProLeague #DeBxlLafierte

“Specifically, the fans were protesting a one-year ban from Fire home games that were handed down to three fans who displayed an anti-ICE, or Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, banner at a recent game.”

The new team!

Guracarmelle. Salsers. Sauerbraten.

Do you have ground hopping experience in Bosnia, Croatia, or the Balkans more generally? I would love to pick your mind about some things. Shoot me a DM, or a comment here.