Red Card For Mummy & Other Soccer Stories

Guillaume and Arnold Castillo, soccer's son and father internet sensations, have created a showcase of young Australian footballing talent with their Instagram hit, @au.ballerz. At any game, you can see them filming - Guillaume, all of 15 years, conducting his world famous endearing interviews with other young trojans, basking in the spotlight of their youthful footballing fame. It's a labour of love for Arnold and 16 year old Guillaume, who lost their wife and mother Gael back in January of this year. And yet @au.ballerz has forged a bond between them that lifts them to heights unimagined - events, travel, autographs, gigs. And with the 2026 World Cup in their sights, it's time to tell everyone the story of @au.ballerz as its come so far, as the social media sensation turns not only it's makers, but its subjects, into the footballing stars they all imagine they could be.

Ned Hall hails from Football Country - The UK. When he came to Australia he was shocked to learn that Football in this country was everything but the game he'd been borned and bred with. Football in Australia is known as Soccer, as it is in the USA; but if you want to grow your game in foreign territory, you learn to go with the flow and make progress where you can. But Ned's clear insights as to WHY Soccer in Australia is sandwiched in between the racing guide and the classified in Australian press have everything to do with who own the rights, and in who's interest it is for the game to grow. And with the welcome news, at July's start, that Soccer has found a new televised home on Stan Sport...it makes you wonder if the phone was listening.....Throw into the mix the best RDED CARDS Ned has ever seen - its a mighty chat about the Secrets of Soccer you always needed to know.Ned Hall leads the ABC's Soccer commentary squad. You can hear him on the ABC Listen App through ABC sport.

Football Gets Friendly between Australia and Argentina when player agent and neuroscience advocate Daniel Santomil comes into the picture. His aim? To create a winning mindset - think like a winner, eat like a winner, sleep like a winner and play like a winner. It's a long way to Australia from Daniel's home in Buenos Aires, but the joy of football can travel the 11, 600 km it takes to get here. But: how does one negotiate the cultural clashes from one country to another? And how on earth could a privileged brat from Melbourne compete with desire against a youngster from the "villas miserias" in the Argentinian capital? Can words mean different things? Physicality be misinterpreted? Or is football an international language that the dressing room makes clear?

Can there be anyone in Australia more Totally Football than Santo Cilauro? OK. Sure. Ange Postecoglou, from Tottenham Hotspures, And yes, And Sam Kerr. Right. But the football lover who turned the beautiful game into Showbiz for Australia is none other than THIS man, who is part of the Working Dog team that has created some of Australia's most ground breaking comedy over the last 30 years. You may have seen films, The Castle, or The Dish? Shows like The Panel or Have You Been Paying Attention or Thank God You Are Here, Utopia - this work has travelled the world. And through it all , writer, comic actor producer and director Santo Cilauro has withstood the Aussie push towards the local game, AFL ( You know it in America, the one that Mason Cox, The Texan plays) and brought us the freshest, funniest take on the world game you can imagine. His show has been various incarnations of Totally Football, and there is no one better placed to give you a who's who, or a cheat's guide and even a show biz education of films and tv shows to watch, that the Australian Footballing Royalty, Santo. Who else has Ange Postecoglou on speed dial, just for fist bump emojii's? Libbi and Santo first met at Melbourne University Law as teens, where Santo was known for wearing a purple suit to Moot Trials and Libbi was most useful for Law Revues because she had a little red convertible car that was great for student film shoots. Here, they catch up.

Tania Hird is an Extreme Soccer Mum. She is also an ex lawyer, mother of 4 and founder & CEO of HairflairAus and Tania Hird Designs. Tania knows elite sport. Her son Alex plays for A- League team, Melbourne Knights. But yes - that surname IS familiar. For many years too, Tania was the wife and partner of Essendon Football legend and coach, James Hird. By James' side steadfastly, Tania experienced both the mercurial highs and devastating lows of an ultra extreme elite football experience. This is a candid conversation born of those observations: about raising elite athletes to be of good character, and develop a strong sense of self that exists away from the game. Don't get ahead of yourself, is Tania's mantra, observing that respect for others is just insufficient - there must be true care for others instilled in any elite athlete, to take them outside a world that otherwise would be all about themselves. Football, fame, fuck ups and fortitude - these are the observations Tania brings to this episode, from a rarified position with high heeled feet firmly on the ground. Tania Hird. She's a legend.Red Card For Mummy and Other Soccer stories is made with the help and skills of Marea Markou, Elahn Zetlan, Les Molnar (Production Alley) and #WordOf Mouth Whisperer Helen Merry. Created and presented by Libbi Gorr as an AddLibbi podcast.

Dave Davutovic is a leading football commentator in Australia, and here, shares his insights into the pathway from here, this water bound continent, to play Football with the rest of the world. The conversation looks at how Soccer treated Indigenous Australians at the time of the White Australia policy, and how men's and women's soccer has attracted different players, according to the cultural pressures within each gender at the time. Boys play Football, Girls make pasta was once the way families worked, and our Football teams reflected that by name. But now it is changing, as gender roles have changed within the cultural mix. And the pathway to superstardom overseas is no less tinged by gender as well. Join Dave and The Keepers Mum for the inside story on how to make it, and who's trying to fleece you for money in the process!