Global is round

The conversation focuses on the global soccer fanaticism, but also its drawbacks: the forms of trade with African players and with xenophobia in the stadiums.

The speakers are: Detlev Claussen, a professor of social theory, culture and sociology of science whose research revolves around xenophobia, nationalism and migration. Claussen has published "Béla Guttmann," (2006) a biography of the Hungarian Jew, immigrant, wanderer between worlds, and one of the most successful football coaches of all time. Also Oliver König, football player agent and co-founder of the agency FP Sport Promotion with contacts to China and Africa. Ojokojo Torunarigha, first professional player in FC Chemnitz of Saxony, one of the "New Laender". And the athlete and coach Lars Isecke. Moderator: Christian Ewers, author of „Ich werde rennen wie ein Schwarzer, um zu leben wie ein Weißer: Die Tragödie des afrikanischen Fußballs“ (I'll run like a black man to live as a white man: the tragedy of African football).