The Away End with Daniel Alarcón and John Green
Hosted by Daniel Alarcón and John Green and Sean · iHeartPodcasts
5.0from 260 ratings
- 31
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 260
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About The Away End with Daniel Alarcón and John Green
Two novelists, Daniel Alarcón and John Green, friends since they were teenagers, tackle questions big and small around the World Cup and international football more generally. The only soccer podcast that regularly name checks Toni Morrison, The Away End is about much more than sport: it's about politics, literature and culture, with an eye toward those moments and spaces where our collective love of soccer reveals something unexpected about who we are.
- Publisher
- iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Jan 2026
- Latest episode
- 28 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 31 episodes have a transcript.
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 30: A Story of Belonging, the Legend of Barry Fuller, and Our Collective World Cup Journey
21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 29: La Furia Roja, the Game that Didn’t Matter and Surprising Innovations in Football
16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 28: Goals That End Dreams, Cape Verde and Whoever Wins the World Cup, Plus the Friends We Made Along the Way
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Episode 30: A Story of Belonging, the Legend of Barry Fuller, and Our Collective World Cup Journey
Published 28 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] First, that I need to fight despair. Like, even when you're down so far that a tie feels like a win, you have to go on. You have to fight on like Barry Fuller would, who, by the way, is still playing semi-professional football at the age of 41. You have to go on. You have to believe that better days are possible because they are. Because the thing is, occasionally, not always, but occasionally, that belief is gloriously rewarded. And I have to look to those moments in my life and that I've witnessed in other people's lives because it's so easy to feel that the correct response to all that we face together is just to not get out of bed. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 115 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 145 ratings
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Who hosts The Away End with Daniel Alarcón and John Green?
Daniel Alarcón and John Green and Sean host the show. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
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