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Meet The Hosts
Welcome to Soccer Is Stupid! With the World Cup returning to the United States in 2026, Robert Repino is going to hash out his complaints about the world’s most popular sport with his good friend, fellow Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and longtime soccer journalist Charlie Boehm.
Charlie Boehm
Charles Boehm has covered all levels of soccer in North America and beyond for more than two decades, including his current role as MLSsoccer.com’s National Writer. This summer he’s covering his third FIFA men’s World Cup for MLSsoccer and Sounder at Heart, and is also a semi-regular contributor to the Scuffed podcast. A native Texan, he made Washington, D.C. his home following a pedestrian NCAA Division III college career and subsequent Peace Corps stint in the small, soccer-crazed island nation of Grenada, where he coached and played in the Grenadian Premier League and also met a charismatic guy from Philly named Rob Repino. Find him on Bluesky at @cboehm.bsky.social, or Instagram and Threads at @charlesboehm.
Robert Repino
Robert Repino is a writer who grew up in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several novels, including Mort(e) (Soho Press) and Spark and the League of Ursus (Quirk Books). His nonfiction has appeared in Slate, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Progressive, and Reactor, among others. He is the pitcher for the Oxford University Press softball team, but his business card says that he’s an editor. He served in the Peace Corps in Grenada with Charlie a very long time ago.
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Soccer Is Stupid, a multi-part podcast about the world’s most popular sport, the people who love it, and the people (mostly Americans) who just can’t give it a chance. New episodes drop as the U.S. hosts the 2026 World Cup.