Eleven Named People
Sean Jacobs, Griffith Swidler, Ivan Pech, Anna Olimpia de Moura Leite, Jana Mohamed, Emily Brook, Atash Nowroozian, Ron KrabillDedicated to exploring the history, culture, and politics that shape—and are shaped by—the teams and players we follow.
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There is a difference between rooting for teams that are given to us and the teams that we choose. My NFL fandom was bestowed upon me at birth by my family. I had no say in the matter, I have never questioned it, and it is the fan-team rela...
Five Ways to Watch the World Cup: One, It Unites the World
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The Hosts
Writer Juan Villoro once captured Mexico’s relationship with football perfectly: “If fandoms decided the World Cup, Mexico would certainly reach the finals of every single tournament.” He is not wrong. Mexican fans consistently rank among t...
Take me to your leader: Christian Pulisic
The captain of the US men’s national football squad for the 2026 World Cup 2026 is Tim Ream. Tyler Adams, another squad member, was the captain during the 2022 World Cup. Yet the player seen as the team’s leader is Christian Pulisic, who pl...
Culture Club: Red Star Paris
Red Star FC (Instagram).
The last time Red Star Paris had a player in the French national team at a World Cup was 1938, when Alfred Aston, who worked part-time in his family’s printing business, played for France. Aston had also made the t...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Sean Jacobs is on the faculty of The New School and is Founder-Editor of Africa is a Country. He has written about football culture for Al Jazeera, Africa Is a Country, The New York Times, The Guardian and Roads and Kingdoms, among others.
New York, NY
Ivan Pech is a recent graduate from The New School For Social Research. His work has appeared in Africa Is A Country, Michigan Quarterly Review,Public Seminar, among others.
Anna is a PhD student at The New School for Social Research and a Director at LCA Consultores in Brazil. She is interested about the intersection of economics, culture, and football.
Jana Mohamed is a Global Studies student at The New School from Alexandria whose work merges printmaking, writing, and research on politics, football culture, nationalism, and visual expression in the Middle East.
World traveller, writer, photographer.
Atash Nowroozian is a PhD student at SOAS University of London. Her work draws on interdisciplinary approaches to examine colonial formations, and the intersections of power, technology, and resistance in contemporary conflicts.
Ron Krabill is Director of the Global Sport Lab at UW Seattle and Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell. He is a scholar of media, politics, cultural studies, global football, international education, and human rights.
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