Always Gold
Always Gold
Football is the most popular game on earth. Its history is usually told through trophies, legends and famous goals. Always Gold tells the other side.
Every week, we take one story from football's hidden history and tell it properly: the cartels that bought Colombia's clubs, the dictator who threatened his own World Cup squad, the political prisoners who built a football association inside apartheid's most notorious jail, the man who spent twenty years as a professional footballer without really playing.
These are stories where football isn't just the backdrop. It's where power, crime, politics, faith and identity collide, and where the game itself changes what happens next. Each episode goes back into the history that shaped the story, the people caught up in it, and the side stories that most accounts leave out.
Some episodes are dark. Some are absurd. All of them are true.
New episodes every week.