By Howler Magazine
Stories about soccer from Howler Magazine
Grammy winners Ozomatli set out to collaborate on a song with LAFC’s 3252. The result: 5 songs—and a story. George Sanchez-Tello takes it from there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Greg Ash, as Gary Gold, has a story to tell. It’s about an Englishman making LA his home and trying to make an MLS team—and a man chasing his dream. We’re pretty sure that’s what it’s about anyway. Greg joins...
If you love soccer, you know that FIFA is at the center of it all, and recently it was at the center of the biggest sports scandal in history. Ken Bensinger, an award winning journalist for Buzzfeed put together the...
We talk with Nate Abaurrea about Maradona's remarkable visit to Tijuana plus hear his version of the infamous goal scored by the man some refer to as "Dios".. Meanwhile in Chicago recently, the US held their Soccer Coaches Convention and...
Howler 15 contributor Elliot Sheaf, editor of Top Corner Magazine and West Ham United supporter, shares thoughts on the ConIFA World Cup, rediscovering a love of the England team, and trying to love the London Stadium. Learn more about your ad...
This week, Howler Radio welcomes novelist, Howler Magazine contributor and former DI collegiate player Jomo Hendrickson to talk writing, soccer and what happens when you put writing and soccer together. His book, The American Way, follows the life of Japeth...
Georgia Cloepfil, the author of The Shape of a Dream Can Expand and Shrink: An American Soccer Life in South Korea, an extraordinary two-part piece we ran on the site in early August joins the podcast. The piece speaks about...
New editor Dennie Wendt and founding editor George Quraishi discuss the contents, creative process and—incredibly, and at long last—the completion of Howler 15. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TOMMY SMYTH, PART II: One man’s story of coming to the U.S. and becoming one of the great voices of the American game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The great Tommy Smyth joins Howler Radio for a wide-ranging, insightful and occasionally surprising World Cup roundup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Japan may have come out victorious in Tom's final match at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but the real winners were the Colombian fans and Tom, who shares a moment from the match that moved him more than any...
Was it the train ride from Hell or Heaven? There was lots of beer, Koreans, Swedes, Songs, Dogs and Cats living together. Massive Hysteria. But if you are going to survive World Cup 2018, this isn’t a bad way. Tom...
I can finally check this off my bucket list, and while it wasn't a US game, it had an incredible finish. However, it was the journey to that point from before the game in a bar to the ride to...
As the World Cup 2018 is about to begin, it's Tom Kludt's job to find out who made the journey and which of those create the loudest cheers for their teams. Would it be Morocco, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or would...
It's almost like being there! reporter Tom Kludt sends us audio postcards of his experiences at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. This first one takes you from JFK all the way to Moscow and shares the stories of the...
The Goalmouth is a new, 5-minute podcast that will show up on your phone by 7 a.m. EST every weekday morning so you can hear the latest soccer news and nonsense on your commute. In collaboration with the Total Soccer...
For our final episode of Season Two, Matt Nelson talks to Zlatan. ...
Robin Friday remains one of the great what-ifs: what if he’d played in an era when the best players could easily transfer to the best teams? What if we had more footage of his games—including a clip of his greatest...
Has there ever been a more… befuddling team? France in the late 1990s and into the aughts had more than a few of the world’s most beguiling players, and they actually knew how to win. And yet Les Bleus also...
It had been 30 years since England had won the World Cup, 30 years since the country had hosted a tournament. Gazza, Shearer, Sheringham, Seaman, Adams, and Ince played all their home games at Wembley that summer, and Three Lions...
This is a story about perennial losers who finally figured out how to win—and then basically didn’t stop winning for years and years. Looking back from 2016, it's undeniable that Spain’s brand of high-possession, high-pressing tiki taka has influenced global...
Going into Euro ’92, Denmark wasn’t a favorite to win the tournament. They weren't even expected to play in it. But when Yugoslavia began to fall apart, its team was barred and Denmark brought in as a replacement. What followed was...
Decades before he became a fat-cat football executive (and got banned from soccer), Michel Platini was known as one of the game’s greatest players—and his utter domination of Euro 84 was perhaps the most triumphant moment in a glittering career....
Che Che Vidal loves football. And the internet. One of these things nearly got him killed. ...
The Angry Kilmarnock Fan is very angry. This banging dance anthem celebrates his anger. ...
When my mate Rory was a kid he shouted abuse at legendary England midfielder Ray Wilkins in the middle of a crowded street. Now he wants to apologize. In this episode we also discover what makes the angriest man in...
Our intrepid reporter embarks on an epic journey to discover the origins of the Panenka penalty kick—a subtle yet audacious technique that turns players into either heroes or goats. It's a quest that him to the fringes of North America's...
This episode is a mash-up of two older stories that we released a while back. One is about a fan who lived every football fan’s dream when he was subbed on to play for the team he supports–the other is...
In this classic episode, we travel back to the year 2000, when Luis Figo did the unthinkable: he moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid. In 2002, on a return trip to the Camp Nou, he found that the blaugrana faithful...
If you have ever wondered what it’s like to experience a US-Mexico game at Estadio Azteca, this episode will give you a taste. Howler contributor Robert Andrew Powell takes us behind the fencing and riot police to witness the USMNT’s...
A little preview of season 2 of Howler Radio that will feature the Panenka, sexy Landon fanfic, and Daring to Zlatan. ...
