Podcasts by The Forgotten XI

World Cup Preview!!!! from 2023-07-08T20:21:57

Who's in, who's not? Other news and things to watch for at the 2023 Women's World Cup.

I sit down with Assile Toufaily, former Lebanon National Team Player and Host of the pod...

Go Down Moses from 2023-05-07T21:09:03

The true story of an amazing woman.

Soldier, Player, Racer, Spy: The Untrue Story of the Hyena of the Gestapo... And the true one!!! from 2023-02-06T20:49:21

Or the story of Josephine Baker's onetime girlfriend. Violette Morris was a famous footballer, athlete, and  French war hero. She was later accused of being a Nazi Spy. She was definitely o...

Assile Toufaily, Football in Lebanon and France from 2022-11-11T20:14:13

I chat with Assile Toufaily, former member of Lebabon's Women's National Team about her experiences, and the growth of women's football in the Middle East. Follower her @Assile_T10 and follow me...

Roe v. Wade is Gone from 2022-07-18T18:45:19

I sit down with couple of other podacsters to discuss the end of Roe, what it means for Americans, and what can be done about it

Manchester Corinthians The Interview from 2022-02-09T19:13:07

I recently sat down with Margaret Shepherd and Margaret Whittney to talk about their time with the Corinthians, what it was like playing under teh ban and the current state of Women's profession...

The Lions of Kabul from 2021-12-05T22:47:06

Today is the 100 year anniversary of the English FA's ban on women's soccer. Afghanistan has a National Women's Team (had?). This is the story of the Lions of Kabul. 

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The Man Who Stole Football from 2021-10-15T20:21:42

Did you ever wonder how FIFA got so big and so wealthy? What if it wasn't just because football is popular? What if it was just one guy's evil plot?

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La Tri y La Pele from 2021-05-04T21:11:05

In 1970, Mexico's Women's Team shocked Europe in the 1970 unofficial Women's World Cup to place third. How had they done so well? How did they get so good? This is the story of La Tri.

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Petra Landers from 2021-04-22T20:33:20

Petra Landers played in and won the unofficial Women's World Cup for Germany in 1981. She later helped set the World Record for highest altitude football match, and women's football in Africa is...

The White Rose from 2021-04-14T18:07:12

In 2003, Germans were asked: 'Who is the most influential German of all time?' A huge number believed it was Sophie Scholl.

This is her story.

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About Me from 2021-02-09T17:51:36

Maybe you're wondering who your host is. Maybe you're wondering why this guy is so interested in Women's Football. Well, now you'll know.

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Carmen Pomies from 2020-10-10T15:04:32

Pomies played first with Femina, then Dick Kerr's, but that was just the begining of her amazing story.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from 2020-09-26T20:05:58

Justice Ginsburg was a feminist icon who served on the Supreme Court for 27 years, but how she got there is just as important. Back to football next time, promise.

Rose Reilly from 2020-09-17T15:44:26

Before women played football in Scotland, one little girl was determined to play. Rose Reilly should be a house-hold name.

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1881, Again from 2020-08-30T22:46:37

We have the real story of what happened in 1881. The first women's international match was more than just a single match. Thanks to Stuart Gibbs for his ...

Granny Was a Footballer from 2020-08-03T14:22:57

What would you do if you found out that your grand mother had been a famous footballer? Stephen Bolton discovered exactly that just a few years ago. Follow him @STEPHEN11981196 on twitter.

Dear Marta from 2020-07-01T19:21:42

Marta Vieira da Silva is perhaps the greatest female footballer ever. But she wasn't always that. Once, she was a shy young woman. This is her letter to her younger self.

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Manchester Corinthians LFC from 2020-06-24T17:19:56

In 1949, a man founded a women’s football club to help his disabled daughter. That team would go on to conquer the world and attain international stardom.

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When Football Was A Crime... from 2020-06-06T18:31:39

Yes, women went to jail for the Beautiful Game. And you'll never guess where....

Be safe, wash your hands.

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Chile from 2020-05-22T20:16:03

The Industrial Revolution changed the world. In Chile, the Industrial Revolution changed the face of football forever. 

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Equal Pay? Any Pay.... from 2020-05-08T20:10:25

The first US WNT got paid about $10 a day to play matches. Things got a little better in the 1990’s, but the team couldn’t live on those wages. Then the USWNT took matters in to their own hands....

Title IX (nine) from 2020-05-01T16:19:28

Can a single law, just one sentence, change the world? One law, in one country, did change the world. Title IX is the only law in the United States that recognizes the rights of women, but it st...

Second Class? Really? from 2020-03-20T18:36:11

The Danish Club BK Femina won the first Women’s World Cup in 1970. Their story is in many ways similar to the USWNT’s story. Unappreciated and unrecognized, they soldiered on. And I am joined by...

The Rebellion - Part 3 Victory from 2020-03-06T19:46:16

Women begin holding rogue World Cups in 1970. By the mid-80s, they are storming the gates of FIFA demanding that the women’s game be recognized. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation is on the...

The Rebellion Part 2- More of This! from 2020-02-21T20:43:01

In 1971, FIFA lifts the ban on women playing football. But they don’t do anything to help the women’s game. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation is having none of that.

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The Rebellion, Part 1 from 2020-02-07T19:54:34

By 1970, women are playing football all over the world, but FIFA is not sanctioning matches. FIFA doesn’t seem to care. Someone else is paying attention though, and they set out to make history....

The Matildas from 2020-01-25T21:19:56

One hundred years ago, Australian women start playing football. Over the last century, they slowly and quietly, with little help from anyone, became one of the best sides in the world.

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Lotte Specht and Damen Fussball from 2020-01-03T20:48:06

Germany was a dangerous place in the 1930s. The German economy was suffering under the Great Depression and German politics was becoming toxic. The Nazis are about to come to power. Men fought i...

A Small Place of Freedom from 2019-12-13T19:04:46

“If you don’t have any collective memory, you cannot fight because you don’t have any history before you that could help you.” Marco Giani

Marco Giani joins us from Milan to tell us more ...

Bella Ciao! from 2019-12-06T19:14:43

In 1932, a group of high school girls play a soccer match in Italy. But this is Mussolini’s Italy. These young women are challenging not just sexism, but fascism. In so doing, they set off a ser...

Vive le Football Féminin! from 2019-11-22T19:53:04

Women’s football in France begins in 1917, and the French teams are a bit more organized than the English teams. What makes a club more than a team? Alice Milliat, pioneer of women’s sport and w...

Dick Kerr’s Ladies FC and the Eternal Debate from 2019-11-08T21:26:58

Today, we look at the long history of the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC and  their impact on women’s sports.

And I’m joined by Mike MacDonald of EPL Pod fame to discuss the eternal question...

In a League of Their Own from 2019-10-25T19:09:27

Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC was the most famous and successful women’s team in history. Founded in 1917, they continued to play after the Ban. For nearly another 50 years.

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The Walton Cup and The Ban from 2019-10-13T17:16:36

Why did the English Football Association ban women from playing? Coal. 

Some British women get the right to vote in 1918, but by 1921 female football players are stepping in to the p...

The First Champions from 2019-09-20T18:33:07

In WWI, men in Britain went to war and women went to work. And just as working men had taken to football, working women now took to the beautiful game. Thousands of women’s teams were formed in ...

In the Beginning... from 2019-09-12T19:03:46

In this first episode of the Forgotten XI, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of Women's Football, 1863 and the first Association Soccer.

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150 Years Ago... from 2019-08-30T18:19:59

Women have been playing association football, or soccer, for 150 years, just as long as the men. But people just keep forgetting or worse, bury their stories for decades. 

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