# african football (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover african football. Page: Feed: --- ## [Serve the Music](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/serve-the-music) _2026-08-22 · Sean Jacobs · Eleven Named People_ Drummer Kesivan Naidoo’s influences—the people and places that formed him—persist. They keep returning: in his music, and especially in what his mentor Bheki Mseleku and his grandmother taught him. ## [11 Questions for Priyansh](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/11-questions-for-priyansh) _2026-08-20 · Sean Jacobs · Eleven Named People_ The sports scholar Priyansh answers eleven questions on fandom, players, teams, and identity. ## [Culture Club: Olympia](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/culture-club-olympia) _2026-08-17 · Ivan Pech · Eleven Named People_ Club Olimpia is more than a football club: one of Paraguay’s most successful, a finishing school for political aspirants, yet surprisingly obscure globally, except for occasional publicity stunts. ## [How cisgender men rig the women’s game](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/how-cisgender-men-rig-the-womens) _2026-08-15 · Johanna Mellis · Eleven Named People_ Long before "Juwaana Man," the anti-trans fantasy that serves capitalism and groomers found an early expression in the 1992 film "Ladybugs." ## [Culture Club: Los Angeles Edition](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/culture-club-los-angeles-edition) _2026-08-14 · Ivan Pech · Eleven Named People_ If futbol clubs want to claim Los Angeles as their home, they must defend the communities whose identities and culture make the city’s football possible. ## [Being Lamine in North Carolina](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/john-in-america) _2026-08-13 · Marame Gueye · Eleven Named People_ A writer's son reclaims his name in the American South. ## [Sister Fania](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/sister-fania) _2026-08-09 · Sean Jacobs · Eleven Named People_ The unexpected links between a Hugh Masekela classic and the Cape Town communities where I grew up, went to school, and watched Sunday League football. ## [Failing African Women](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/failing-african-women) _2026-08-09 · Maher Mezahi · Eleven Named People_ The root of the deference to FIFA President Gianni Infantino is the same force allowing African football administrators to relegate women’s football down their list of priorities. ## [11 Questions for Franca Roibal](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/11-questions-for-franca-roibal) _2026-08-07 · Sean Jacobs · Eleven Named People_ Our latest guest's sports loyalties tell a story that is at once deeply personal and profoundly political ## [Baseball’s “Affordability Crisis”](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/baseballs-affordability-crisis) _2026-08-05 · Griffith Swidler · Eleven Named People_ America's most politically and fiscally conservative sport is careening toward a lockout: billionaire owners want market controls; the players' union (the workers) doesn't. ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DH4MMdffY8J2) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [Culture Club: Colo-Colo](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/culture-club-colo-colo) _2026-08-04 · Ivan Pech · Eleven Named People_ We examine different club cultures around the world. Colo-Colo from Chile is the only club from there to win a South American club championship. It is also Vozinha's new home. ## [11 Questions for Peter Alegi](https://elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/11-questions-for-peter-alegi) _2026-08-01 · Sean Jacobs · Eleven Named People_ The historian of African football answers eleven questions inspired by Eric Hobsbawm’s injunction that “the imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.”