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Always Gold

Always Gold

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Every episode of Always Gold takes one football story and follows it further than the final whistle.


A Brazilian club that climbed from the fourth division to a continental final — and the plane crash that killed 71 people the night before the biggest game in their history. A 1969 World Cup qualifier between El Salvador and Honduras that preceded four days of armed conflict. A prison island where political prisoners built a football league with a written constitution, trained referees, and a formal appeals process — and used it to practise governing a nation. A football club in São Paulo that ran itself as a full democracy under a military dictatorship, abolished the rules that treated players like soldiers, and won the championship twice.


These are not football stories with historical footnotes. They are history, and football happened to be where it took place.

New episodes weekly. No filler. No live commentary. Just the long story, told properly.


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Mo Orsini サッカー 世界 社会科学
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  • The Port Said Massacre

    The Port Said Massacre
    2026/06/21

    On the night of 1 February 2012, 74 people died in the deadliest stadium disaster in African football history. Al-Ahly had just beaten Al-Masry 3–1 in Port Said when the violence began. The gates were locked. The lights went out. Supporters were crushed and killed in the exits.


    Egypt was nine months out of a revolution. The Ultras Ahlawy — Al-Ahly's organised supporters — had stood in Tahrir Square and fought the police in the streets. What happened that night has never been fully explained. The Egyptian authorities blamed a riot. Others called it a massacre. The trials lasted years and the questions have never been fully answered.


    This is the full story of Port Said — the clubs, the revolution, the night itself, and the reckoning that followed.



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    19 分
  • The Ninety-Minute War

    The Ninety-Minute War
    2026/06/10

    In Glasgow, a football match stops a city. Not pauses it — stops it. Pubs divide. Families separate. Workplaces go quiet. Celtic versus Rangers is the most intense club rivalry in world football, and it has almost nothing to do with football. It is about Irish Catholic immigrants and Scottish Protestant establishment. About a famine that emptied a country and a city that absorbed the survivors. About identity, belonging, and what happens when two communities share a city for 150 years and never fully agree on what that city means. Between them, Celtic and Rangers have won 111 of the 129 Scottish league championships ever contested. But this episode isn't about the titles. It's about what two football clubs have carried — and what they've cost.


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    18 分
  • Win or Lose, But Always With Democracy

    Win or Lose, But Always With Democracy
    2026/06/03
    In 1982, under Brazil's military dictatorship, a football club in São Paulo ran itself as a full democracy. Players, coaches, and the kit man all had equal votes on wages, transfers, and training schedules. The man who led it had a medical degree, smoked cigarettes, and had been named after an ancient Greek philosopher by his father. They won the Campeonato Paulista twice. This is the story of the Democracia Corinthiana.

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    24 分
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