Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist on his new docuseries, “Super League: The War for Football”

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

English - January 19, 2023 08:05 - 32 minutes - ★★★★★ - 681 ratings
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Episode 270 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist, the director and executive producer of “Super League: The War for Football,” which is airing on Apple TV + and chronicles the attempts of teams such as Real Madrid, Arsenal and Juventus to form a breakaway European soccer league. In this episode, Zimbalist discusses his four-part docuseries; the background of why the European super clubs attempted to form their own league; how UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin was able to ward off the breakaway project for now; how to get access from the super-rich; the challenge of recreating events for dramatic purposes; the future of European soccer and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.

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