Fernanda Echavarri

Fact-checking for this episode by Roxana Aguirre.

Fernanda Echavarri is our managing editor.

Nancy Trujillo is our production manager.

The Latino USA team also includes Julia Caruso, Reinaldo Leanos Jr., Lorimar Marquez, Julieta Martinelli, J.J. Carubin, and Levi Sharp.

This episode was produced by Reinaldo Leaños Jr.

It was edited by our managing editor, Fernanda Echavarri.

It was mixed by Stephanie Lebeau and Julia Caruso.

Nancy Trujillo is our production manager.

His most recent book, released in 2024, is titled On Freedom.

This episode was produced by Levi Sharp, edited by our managing editor, Fernanda Echavarri, with production assistance from Reynaldo Leaños Jr.

It was mixed by Julia Caruso.

Fact-checking by Roxana Aguirre.

Fact-checking for this episode by Roxana Aguirre.

Fernanda Echavarri is our managing editor.

Nancy Trujillo is our production manager.

The Latino USA team also includes Reynaldo Leaños Jr., Glorimar Marquez, J.J. Karubin, and Levi Sharp.

course we would.

So Tom and I joined host and producer Fernanda Echavarri to talk about a subject we normally try to avoid,

Harvard.

See, while soccer came to the U.S. before it got to Brazil, it was generally marginalized as an immigrant game, an outsider's one.

So clearly more people need to hear what Kirk and Tom told me that surprised me.

Soccer has been in the US longer than in freaking Brazil? So today we're diving into US soccer history with Kirk and Tom to figure out why soccer has this foreign reputation and where it truly belongs in the American imagination.

From Futuro Studios, I'm Fernanda Echavarri, and this is American Football, a show about soccer culture in the U.S. and its underdog roots.

The story we're going to tell today that will make everything about soccer in the U.S. make sense starts in the 1800s.

[Instrumental music plays] This episode of Latino USA and Futuro Investigates was produced by Rebeca Ibarra and Roxana Aguirre.

It was edited by our managing editor, Fernanda Echavarri.

Additional production by Rowan Moore Gerety and Guillermo Tejeda.

Mixing by Stephanie Lebow and Julio Caruso.