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Podcast: Divided Cities

Genoa fans at the Luigi Ferraris. The club has a fiery derby with Sampdoria

My guest is Kevin Pogorzelski, who has travelled the world visiting some of the top derbies in world football, including cross-city rivalries in Buenos Aires, Genoa, Glasgow, Liverpool, Istanbul, Budapest, and elsewhere. He has chronicled them in his new book, Divided Cities: The World’s Most Passionate Single City Derbies. Here, we discuss a few of those experiences, and other close run-ins from Kevin’s global tour…

Disclosure: Just for transparency, Kevin and share the same publisher in Pitch Publishing and I was gifted a copy.

I release a new podcast every two weeks, so be sure to subscribe on your preferred podcast platform. You can find Football Travel by Outside Write on AppleSpotifyPlayer.FM and Anchor. Look for it in Google Podcasts too. I’d really appreciate a rating or view if you like what I’m doing as it helps others discover the podcast. 

Chris

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