Season 5 Episode 12

Before the A-League

Before the A-League, we must review and learn about what came before it: the National Soccer League.
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Episode Notes

Last week, Australia’s professional football league, the A-League, kicked off its 20th season!

To celebrate this milestone, our next two episodes are dedicated to the national football leagues in Australia. It is a complicated story of identity, crowd trouble, fighting against forces that want to destroy football in Australia, before being reborn in the early 2000s.

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