By Sport Social Podcast Network
The podcast currently has 239 episodes available.
Total Football was dead. The eighties killed all hope, with its wing-back system, sweepers in the backline and rampant hooliganism and stadium disaster. Football needed a bit of light injected back into it, and so too did Ajax.
Johan Cruyff came back, and tried, but was quickly lured away by Barcelona again. Up step Louis van Gaal, a football war of philosophical ideas and Ajax’s Total Recall to the top of the European game.
00:35 - Since Total Football
04:30 - Total Recall
19:55 - Legacy
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Pele called football “The Beautiful Game”, Cruyff declared “winning is an important thing,” and Mourinho said “if you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank”.
Let’s forget about that last lunatic and focus more on the guy who said the second thing: Johan Cruyff. The leader of Total Football, the thoroughfare that explains the history of football tactics. This documentary hopes to explain the Totality of Total Football.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – How we reached Total Football
03:55 – How Ajax reached Total Football
07:20 – The Michels Foundation
17:10 – The Kovacs Success
24:35 – The Legacy
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The Champions League—i.e. good football—is finally back, except UEFA have decided to be wet wipes and change the future of the sport with their Swiss Model format change. So, we’re looking back instead and creating dozens of alternate histories from the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE! Let’s gooooooooooo.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – What if Juventus beat Real Madrid in 1987?
02:05 – What if Luis Figo scored the penalty v Juventus in 2003?
04:20 – What if Juventus qualified for the Champions League in 1999?
06:10 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2000?
07:50 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2009?
09:35 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2013?
11:20 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2002?
12:50 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2011?
14:10 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2018?
16:20 – What if Inter beat Atletico Madrid in 2024?
17:55 – What if Torino won the UEFA Cup in 1992?
19:40 – What if Napoli beat Spartak Moscow in 1990?
21:30 – What if Napoli qualified for the Champions League in 2012?
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Rome both is and isn’t a football town. The people who live there might be crazy about the
sport but the clubs who also live there aren’t really that successful at the sport.
For a brief window in the late 90s and early 2000s, that changed. This is the story about when Rome ruled Italy, in a football sense of course, but only too briefly.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – Lazio
08:35 – Roma
14:30 – 1999/2000
21:35 – 2000/2001
28:55 – Legacy
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Napoli were just existing, living day-to-day with the survival in the jungle known as Serie A in the 1980s. Up north unimaginable glories and successes that never got handed down to the little people in the south of a country harshly divided in football.
All it took was one little genius to change Calcio forever. Napoli, the House That Maradona Built.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Napoli
04:45 – Diego Maradona
08:45 – Magica
18:45 – Legacy
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Italian football has a big three: Juventus, Milan and Inter. One’s successful back home,
the other more so abroad and the other… neither here nor there.
This is Inter Milan, a team that can dominate but often prefers to keep its success brief,
with long distances between. However, there was a moment—just one moment—when they
might just have been the best Italy had ever seen. And it is when Germany
controlled Calcio.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – Inter
05:40 – Trap
10:50 – The Germans
13:50 – Germany x Inter
23:25 – Legacy
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If you were told to mention the greatest teams in the history of Italian football you’d throw in clubs like Juventus, Milan, Inter, maybe even a Napoli or one from the capital. You’d mention players like Baggio, Platini, Zidane, Maradona, Totti and the like.
But they’re not the best Calcio ever seen. This is, and it’s the story of Il Grande Torino: the best football team you’ve never heard of.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – A Brief History of Italian Football and Torino
03:15 – Erno Erbstein
06:35 – Lucchese: The Blueprint
09:20 – The False Start
16:35 – When Torino Became Grande
23:35 – Il Grande Torino
31:05 – Up On Superga Hill
36:25 – Legacy
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Think of Italian football and you probably think of Juventus first. They’re the ones with the most Italian championships and their history is stacked with a litany of the world’s greatest to ever play football.
This is how they got to become Italy’s biggest football club. Through decadence, dominance and disasters: this is how The Old Lady grew up.
00:00 – Intro
00:25 – The Beginning of Juventus
04:55 – The First Great Juventus team
08:45 – The Decline
10:20 – The Void Left by Superga
14:35 – Il Trio Magico
30:20 – Legacy
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The transfer window is full swing, the happiest time of the year of those donning yellow ties on Sky Sports News and them weirdos who live for the June, July and January as opposed to the actual football being played on the grass out there.
To celebrate: we’ve got a compilation tape that’s busy asking ‘what if the transfer window went differently?’
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – What if Bryan Robson signed for Juventus?
05:30 – What if Marco van Basten signed for Juventus?
08:55 – What if Marco van Basten stayed at Ajax?
10:45 – What if Marco van Basten signed for Barcelona?
13:25 – What if David Beckham signed for Barcelona?
16:20 – What if Robert Lewandowski signed for Real Madrid?
19:50 – What if Dragan Dzajic signed for Real Madrid?
23:30 – What if Dragan Dzajic signed for Inter Milan?
26:45 – What if Georgi Kinkladze signed for Inter Milan?
29:35 – What if Georgi Kinkladze signed for Liverpool?
32:00 – What if Kevin Keegan stayed at Liverpool?
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EURO 2024 may
be over in real life, but the alternate realities from the tournament still
stew away. Here is a compilation tape of 10 ‘what if?’ scenarios from EURO
2024’s knockout stage.
00:25 – What if Frenkie de Jong wasn’t injured?
03:00 – What if Giorgio Scalvini wasn’t injured?
06:20 – What if David Alaba wasn’t injured?
08:45 – What if Joachim Andersen’s goal was allowed against Germany?
10:00 – What if Niclas Fullkrug scored against Spain?
14:00 – What if Thibaut Courtois played?
16:15 – What if Kylian Mbappe didn’t break his nose?
18:55 – What if Benjamin Sesko scored vs Portugal?
21:15 – What if Jude Bellingham didn’t score against Slovakia?
24:15 – What if Marc Guehi scored vs Spain?
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The podcast currently has 239 episodes available.