World Football

World Football

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World Football episodes

  • The Maverick - Emmanuel Petit

    World Cup winner Emmanuel Petit looks back on his career and tells us how money is having a negative impact on today's players. How did the Dutch national team get so bad so quickly? We hear from former Dutch international Michael Reiziger. His Royal Highness Tunku Ismail hits out at the current state of football in Malaysia and talks about his club, Johar Darul Takzim, reaching the AFC Cup semi-final. And Muzzy Izzet remembers his unlikely appearence in a World Cup semi-final. (Photo by Bob Thomas/Getty Images)

    27 min
  • Racism in Russia & Zico's Fifa ambitions

    Former Russia captain Alexei Smertin and Cameroon's Andre Bikey discuss the issue of racism in Russian football.

    Brazil legend Zico says players and fans should have a voice when it comes to choosing Fifa presidents.
    We also hear from the top goalscorer in Major League Soccer, Sierra Leone's Kei Kamara.
    (Photo credit: YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

    27 min
  • Prince Ali, Vialli, St Pauli & Papy's agent

    The president of the Romanian FA tells us why Prince Ali is making a political misjudgement if he thinks he can win the election to become the next Fifa president. Gianluca Vialli tells us why Italian football has an image problem. We're with the national team of Guam as their World Cup adventure continues. St Pauli and Borussia Dortmund play a friendly match to help refugees. And the agent of Chelsea's new signing Papy Djilobodji hits back at accusations that he's killing the player's career. (Photo by Jordan Pix/Getty Images)

    27 min
  • Fighting for the evolution of football

    The president of Sporting Lisbon gives a passionate plea for the introduction of video technology. Former Nigeria international Segun Odegbami on his desire to be the next Fifa president. And the Belgian international Sebastien Pocognoli describes his frustration at the lack of first team football at West Bromwich Albion.

    27 min
  • Football's doping conspiracy

    The Italian prosecutor at the centre of the Juventus EPO scandal in the 1990s and Wada's director general discuss doping in football.

    Parma vice-president Marco Ferrari talks about the efforts to re-build the club following bankruptcy, while Aston Villa's Rudy Gestede discusses racism in the game after being the victim of abuse last season.

    Northern Ireland's Jim Hagan also shares his memories of playing for Celta Vigo in the 1980s.

    (Photo Credit: Sascha Steinbach/DFL/Getty Images)

    27 min
  • Feeder clubs: Who's feeding whom?

    Has Vitesse Arnhem lost its identity by becoming Chelsea's feeder club? We hear from Vitesse captain Guram Kashia.

    Argentine Julio Arca and Kuwaiti interantional Aziz Mashaan discuss the the lure of Europe's top leagues. Will the rest of the world ever be able to compete with the power and the pull of La Liga and the English Premier League?

    And former Croatian international Josip Simunic evaluates Real Madird's new signing, countryman Mateo Kovacic.

    (Photo by Marc Atkins/Mark Leech/Getty Images)

    27 min
  • Saudi Super Cup, Nakhid for Fifa & violence in Turkey

    The president of Saudi Arabia's FA outlines his vision for the future.

    Former Trinidad & Tobago captain David Nakhid on his Fifa presidential ambitions.
    We also pay tribute to Harald Nielsen, one of Denmark's finest ever players, and discuss violence in Turkish football.
    (Photo: Adrian Dennis. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

    27 min
  • Platini's challengers

    South Korea's Chung Mong Joon and Liberia's Musa Bility hit out at Michel Platini's ambitions to be Fifa president. What has happened to all the great Nigerian players? There is turmoil in Mexican football following the sacking of national team coach Miguel Hererra. And, a former football hooligan looks back at violence in English football during the 1970s and '80s.

    (Photo: Michel Patini. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

    27 min
  • Hernan Crespo and Fifa's 'Dinosaurs'

    The former Fifa advisor Michael Hershman talks about his frustrations while dealing with the 'dinosaurs' of the organisation. The former Argentina international Hernan Crespo discusses his new coaching job in Italy and the misfortunes of his former club Parma. We pay tribute to Alcides Ghiggia, the Uruguayan footballer who broke Brazilian hearts at the 1950 World Cup. And we spend time with Greenland, the forgotten team of international football.

    (Photo: Hernan Crespo. Credit: Getty Images)

    27 min

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