Local Grassroots Stories
Local Grassroots Stories
Podcast Description
Local Grassroots Stories (LGS) is a weekly companion podcast to the Soccer Shorts documentary series. Soccer Shorts is a YouTube channel that produces about 10-12 stories a year that shine a spotlight on local grassroots soccer culture. The LGS podcast will go behind the scenes on our Soccer Shorts episodes, allow us to further explore history, people, and events in our grassroots soccer communities, and give time to explore the current events that directly affect local grassroots soccer both in San Diego (our hometown) and across the globe.
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The podcast explores various aspects of grassroots soccer, including historical insights, player profiles, and community events. Specific episodes have honored notable figures like Alex Morgan and Jen Lalor, while others have tackled current topics like the US Open Cup and local soccer culture initiatives. It frequently discusses women's soccer history, impactful grassroots organizations like Bridge Barkada, and community engagement in San Diego and beyond.
Local Grassroots Stories (LGS) is a weekly companion podcast to the Soccer Shorts documentary series. Soccer Shorts is a YouTube channel that produces about 10-12 stories a year that shine a spotlight on local grassroots soccer culture. The LGS podcast will go behind the scenes on our Soccer Shorts episodes, allow us to further explore history, people, and events in our grassroots soccer communities, and give time to explore the current events that directly affect local grassroots soccer both in San Diego (our hometown) and across the globe.
The last few years have seem dramatic growth in women's professional sports. The NWSL and the USL Super League are growing and adding more teams. The lower leagues of women's soccer (USLW, WSPL, UWS, UPSL) are all adding teams. Will the women's game chart a new path forward and become the model for professional soccer in the U.S.? Or, is it more likely that the women's game is destined for decades of the same soccer wars that have plagued the men's game for the last 100 years?
Tonight, John and Dylan get out our crystal balls and do our best to answer these questions and more as we try to predict where the women's game might be in the next 5, 10, 15 years?
. . . and, as always, we'll kick off the show with any of the latest cup, lower league, pro/rel, soccer history, and San Diego specific news.
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EPISODE HOSTS:
Host: John Cross ([email protected]). John is the founder of Big Pine Digital (a digital media company that specializes in preserving family history) and Soccer Shorts (a YouTube Channel that specializes in short form documentaries about local, grassroots, soccer culture.
Co-Host: Dylan Wilson
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YouTube: @LocalGrassrootsStories
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