Our crew of writers and podcasters got together to talk about how New England soccer is doing as summer arrives.

We focused this month on discussing the role of the teams, leagues, their sponsors and supporters groups in the current challenging situation in our country. Should teams and leagues do more to speak out against the actions of ICE? What enables the Vermont Green to openly support climate, social and immigrant justice while the New England Revolution do nothing more than tokenism?

It was an engaging and important discussion about how what's happening outside the stadium sometimes comes inside the stadium.

Our guests this month:

Mike from United in Green a podcast covering the Vermont Green

Shawn from The Blazing Musket and From the Forest to the Tide podcast covering Portland Hearts of Pine

Matt from Raising Anchor a podcast covering Rhode Island FC

You can find all these podcasts on The Blazing Musket as part of our podcast network along with Revolution Recap

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It's hard to keep track of all the soccer tournaments, leagues and qualifiers going on this summer. In the midst of it all is CONCACAF's Gold Cup tournament featuring the top teams from North and Central America, the Caribbean and even a sportswashing entry from Asia!

Jake Catanese is more prepared than anyone we know for this tournament and he's here to walk us through the groups, the key talking points and how he thinks it'll shake down over the next month as part of his excellent work for The Blazing Musket.

You can follow Jake on X.

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Ever since fascism first took power in Italy in the 1920s, soccer clubs, players and their supporters have found ways to resist against it. Chris Lee covers the whole history of that struggle in his book, The Defiant, and joined us to talk all about it.

Chris has written two other books and maintains a site called Outside Write that as self-described, "avoids talking on-field matters, we’re about travelling the world, and learning new things from clubs and the people we meet on the way. We get under the skin of football culture and history.”.

You can follow Chris and Outside Write on BlueSky or their site.

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