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The Sweeper

@SweeperPod

🎙️🌍 Football podcast telling the most extraordinary stories from around the world ⭐️ 5* rating from 1,000+ listeners 👕 BUY THE SWEEPER FOOTBALL SHIRT ↩️

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The Sweeper
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Jun 16
📺 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 📺 🏆 WORLD CUP 2026 HIGHLIGHTS 🏆 🇨🇻 Cape Verde & Vozinha's heroic draw with Spain 🇺🇸 Folarin Balogun's curious US citizenship 🇦🇺 Irankunda & Touré: Australia's refugee strikers 🇵🇪 Drug bust inspired by World Cup mascots 🇧🇷🇲🇦 Brazil & Morocco's
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The Sweeper
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Sep 5, 2024
🇸🇲 SAN MARINO WIN A GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20+ YEARS & A COMPETITIVE MATCH FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!!! History is made as the worst team in the FIFA rankings (210th) finally end the longest winless run in international football history (140 games dating back to April 2004)!!!
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The Sweeper
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Sep 26, 2023
🇦🇹 In 2005, Red Bull bought & rebranded Austria Salzburg, prompting angry fans of the latter to found a phoenix club & start out in the 7th tier. Today, more than 18 years later, the two teams will go head-to-head for the first time since in the second round of the Austrian Cup.
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The Sweeper
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Apr 18, 2025
🇳🇴 Bodø/Glimt have reached the UEFA Europa League semi-finals, where they will face Tottenham Hotspur. Here are 8 fun facts you should know about the Norwegian champions. THREAD 🧵
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The Sweeper
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Aug 25, 2022
🇱🇮 HISTORY! VADUZ BECOME THE FIRST LIECHTENSTEIN CLUB TO REACH THE EUROPEAN GROUP STAGES! The only UEFA member so small it doesn't have its own league completes a fairytale run to the Conference League! We will have a second-division club in continental competition this season!
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The Sweeper
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Aug 26, 2025
🇳🇴 Bodø/Glimt have reached the league phase of the UEFA Champions League for the first time ever, ending a long drought for Norwegian teams! Here are 10 fun facts you should know about the toothbrush-obsessed, fighter pilot-employing club from the Arctic Circle. THREAD 🧵
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The Sweeper
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May 19, 2024
🇦🇹 THE RED BULL ERA OF DOMINANCE IS OVER! Sturm Graz have won the Austrian Bundesliga for the first time since 2011 & become the first club other than Salzburg to win the double since 2006. Sturm's triumph ends Salzburg's unprecedented 10-year run of league titles since 2014!
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The Sweeper
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Apr 29, 2025
⚽️ What's your favourite football fixture in terms of what the two team names spell out? We'll start: Hard-Egg 🇦🇹
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The Sweeper
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Aug 26, 2025
🇰🇿 Kairat Almaty made history by becoming the easternmost club to ever reach the UEFA Champions League group/league phase tonight. What kind of away days might we see in the competition this season? And why do Kazakh clubs play in Europe. Here are 9 fun facts for you! THREAD 🧵
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The Sweeper
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Oct 5, 2023
🇫🇴 KÍ Klaksvík have become the first-ever club from the Faroe Islands to obtain a point in a European group phase! For a team from a small town of 5,024 people to hold Lille, who were the champions of France's Ligue 1 as recently as 2021, to a draw is simply a great achievement!
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The Sweeper
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Jun 24, 2025
🇳🇿 Auckland City... 😲 ...are the only amateurs at the Club World Cup 📅 ...needed their players to get time off 🦷 ...left their dentist coach in New Zealand 💰 ...have a squad market value of €4.58m And they still managed to draw with Boca Juniors. Football is amazing! 🤩
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The Sweeper
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Aug 2, 2023
🇫🇴 KÍ KLAKSVÍK HAVE DONE IT! The Faroese club have beaten BK Häcken and won two Champions League qualifying ties in the same season for the first time ever. They are now the first team from the Faroe Islands in history to qualify for the group stages of a European competition!
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The Sweeper
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Nov 20, 2023
🇸🇲 AN INCREDIBLE HISTORY-MAKING MOMENT! Minnows San Marino, who are currently on the longest international winless run of all time (136 games), have scored a goal in three consecutive matches for the first time in their history! ⚽️ 1 goal v. 🇩🇰 ⚽️ 1 goal v. 🇰🇿 ⚽️ 1 goal v. 🇫🇮
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The Sweeper
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Jul 18, 2024
🇬🇮 Bruno's Magpies, a PUB TEAM that was formed in Bruno's Bar in Gibraltar back in 2013, have upset Derry City to win their first-ever European tie! They are named Magpies and play in black and white because their first coach Mick Embleton was an avid Newcastle United supporter.
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