{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/6a3501366f90df4cb7f330c3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"World Cup | Post Colonial World | 2","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/1781862907777-3b8fed4c-1230-4b40-a1dc-825de1e13d6c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>What happens when the nations that invented football start losing their grip on it? How does a team representing a country that doesn't officially exist end up touring the world and unnerving an empire? And why did thirty-one African nations refuse to play at all?</p><p><br></p><p>Afua and Peter follow football into the age of decolonisation — Algeria's phantom side, Nkrumah's Black Stars, a seventeen-year-old in tears in Stockholm — as the colonised stop asking permission and take the game for themselves.</p><p><br></p><p>[0:00] 1950: the empires are gone, but nobody's told the World Cup</p><p><br></p><p>[6:55] Bandung — half the planet decides to stop being spectators</p><p><br></p><p>[9:27] Algeria's ghost team: the national side that didn't officially exist</p><p><br></p><p>[12:46] Nkrumah, the Black Star, and building a nation out of nothing</p><p><br></p><p>[17:48] South Korea lose 9–0 — and it still counts as a triumph</p><p><br></p><p>[19:51] A teenager weeps on his teammates' shoulders and reorders the game</p><p><br></p><p>[26:37] Thirty-one nations walk out of the World Cup at once</p><p><br></p><p>[29:33] Eusébio: the man winning for the empire that denied his own</p><p><br></p><p>Join <strong>Legacy Plus</strong> for bonus episodes, early access, Q&amp;A's, fewer adverts and more.</p><p><strong>legacy.supportingcast.fm</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Stay connected with Legacy:</p><p>Instagram: @originallegacypodcast</p><p>TikTok: @legacy_productions</p><p><br></p><p>Explore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas:</p><p>Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com</p>","author_name":"Original Legacy Productions"}