Outside Voices
Too much football risks burnout for fans and broadcasters
‘Match overload is a path to lowering the commercial value of the world’s most popular sport’, contends Josh Noble in the FT
On the business of media, and beyond—through the lens of football
Cindy Parlow Cone
The president of U.S. Soccer on shared values in the Turner/HBO Max deal, Federation leadership on human rights, outlook for the men’s team in Qatar, and a ‘Decade of American Soccer’
Seven Aside
Dance Like No One’s Watching
TikTok, sponsorship reform, and the ruse of creativity
Analysis & Commentary
Gay Footie: A Primer
An essay by Simon Doonan
Back Line
Football and the Global City
All-Star Edition
A special series of interviews spotlighting cities as vanguards of recovery, resiliency and social and economic progress
01/ DEPUTY MAYOR NINA HACHIGIAN
02/ DEMETRA THORNTON & KRISTIN BYRD
03/ SHAMINA SINGH & MIGUEL GAMIÑO JR
INTERVIEWS
Richard Brown
The Catch-22, Outlaw King, and True Detective producer on revolutionary television, the new streamer paradigm, making the call to Clooney, and the Mourinho and Barça films that nearly were
MORE INTERVIEWS
Uzodinma Iweala
The Beasts of No Nation and Speak No Evil author on his new film, Waiting for Hassana, and nascent media enterprise, Ventures Africa
Damian Lewis
The producer and Billions actor reflects on his affection for Liverpool FC, recounts a brush with a former CIA Director, mulls a Russia boycott, and reminisces about a tuna melt from a bygone Williamsburg
Jonathan Emmett
The Gensler principal and global Sports practice lead on 21st-century sporting venues, and the groundbreaking Banc of California Stadium in the context of a rapidly changing downtown Los Angeles
Richard Brown
The Catch-22, Outlaw King, and True Detective producer on revolutionary television, the new streamer paradigm, making the call to Clooney, and the Mourinho and Barça films that nearly were
MORE INTERVIEWS
Uzodinma Iweala
Damian Lewis
Jonathan Emmett
BACK LINE
Gay Footie: A Primer
An essay by Simon Doonan
Kicking the Suburbs Out of the American Game
Street culture lights the way to a new soccer economy, contends Matt Jarvis, CEO of 72andSunny and founder of Electric Futsal
PRINT EDITION ONLY
Blue-Sky Thinking
A coalition led by New York City FC and Mayor Bill de Blasio revives idle public space to create a network of small-sided pitches throughout the five boroughs
The Football-Media Value Proposition
A flyaround of stories from the media-sphere shows a bumper yield of creative storytelling, suggests a soccer content land grab, and underscores an industry in rapid transition
72andSunny
A day-in-the-life pictorial of the California-born creative firm, by Timothy Young
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