Support your Local Team: Terraces, Towns & Tunes of Germany’s 2nd Bundesliga

The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.

If you want to shake off all that syrupy World Cup coverage, join us for a free flowing conversation with Eva-Lotta Bohle, who follows quintessential 2nd league club Arminia Bielefeld - home and away - and has plenty of tales to prove it. She also takes an active role in shaping a better, louder and more inclusive fan culture at her local love. We talk about the joys and sorrows of getting into men's soccer as a 5 year old girl, travels to big names like Hamburger SV as well as small rural towns like Sandhausen; about why outsinging the opposing fans can be more important than winning the game; and about fries vs. "pommes" vs. bratwursts vs. pudding. We even chatted about how German fans view Ted Lasso and the MLS. But we also talked about some more serious issues: Stadium culture and sexualized violence, and the tense relationship between soccer fans in Germany and the police.
This episode also contains 6 short bonus tracks: the most interesting - or bizarre - stadium hymns of Germany's 2nd Bundesliga.

HELPFUL LINKS for this episode:

Arminia Bielefeld hymn - video
Jahn Regensburg hymn - video
SV Darmstadt 98 hymn - video
1. FC Kaiserslautern hymn - video
SV Sandhausen hymn - video
SC Paderborn hymn - video

2nd Bundesliga Podcast (Eva-Lotta Bohle and Matthew Karagich)
2nd Bundesliga (Wikipedia article)
Alina Schwermer's book Futopia: Ideas for a Better Football World (book in German only so far) - buy in America, buy from the German publisher
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Artwork for The Assistant Professor of Football is by Saige Lind
Instrumental music for this podcast, including the introduction track, is by the artist Ketsa and used under a Creative Commons license through Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/