Today’s Podcast Headliner is 5 Good Minutes with Andy Markovits, the popular University of Michigan professor who co-wrote the book Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism. Markovits has just released his memoir, The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness. Markovits was born in Romania, moved to Vienna and later emigrated to the United States. In this clip from our interview, he recounts listening to the 1954 World Cup final between Hungary and West Germany on the radio with his father—who would tell him the most important thing about the day was that it was July 4, the independence day of the country (the U.S.) that he hoped his son would live in someday.
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Podcast Headliner: 5 Good Minutes with University of Michigan Professor Andy Markovits