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Albrecht SONNTAG
Professor of European Studies - ESSCA

Between 2012 and 2015, I had the honour (and the immense pleasure) to coordinate a transnational, interdisciplinary research project named « Football Research in an Enlarged Europe » (FREE), which was supported by the 7th European Framework Programme for Research with a grant of 2.4 million. FREE brought together nine European universities and organised eight conferences in different cities across the continent. For more information about the project, visit the pages of the EU*Asia Institute.

The FREE project also ran its own blog, on which I published regular research-informed posts on various issues of European football. Below you can find a selection. Just click on the title in order to access the posts.

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  1. "Where is China’s Nick Hornby?", 11 September 2017.
  2. "They steal my time!", 25 February 2017.
  3. "Football’s Greatest Year", 17 January 2017.
  4. "Genuine social engagement or cheap hypocrisy?", 28 November 2016.
  5. "A club like all the others", 24 October 2016.
  6. "The spark of the gods", 4 June 2016.
  7. "Racism? What Racism?", 3 June 2016.
  8. "Brexit questions and Euro2016 scenarios", 26 February 2016.
  9. "Unsubscribe!", 15 December 2015.
  10. "What would Mr Thackeray say?", 10 December 2015.
  11. "The many lives of a song", 28 November 2015.
  12. "Sound assumptions, false conclusions", 1 November 2015.
  13. "A kick-off to a particular kind of Europeanisation", 11 September 2015.
  14. "Historical landmarks", 4 August 2015.
  15. "How to produce new Catalans", 5 July 2015.
  16. "A football poet", 14 April 2015.
  17. "Shooting minus the war", 24 August 2014.
  18. "Pantheons", 12 January 2014.
  19. "Where have all the World Cup souvenir books gone?", 8 January 2013.
  20. "Whose memory is it?", 3 January 2013.
  21. "Christmas 1914: did the Brits and the Germans really play football?", 24 December 2012.
  22. "Football’s come some way", 4 December 2012.
  23. "The Great Match", 27 November 2012.
  24. "Football and democracy", 9 September 2012.
  25. "Season’s greetings", 24 August 2012.
  26. "Socialising", 30 July 2012.
  27. "Voice of the nation", 17 July 2012.
  28. "Coronation Day", 18 May 2012.
  29. "The Prime Minister’s speech", 6 April 2012.
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