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The Total Quidditch. Podcast- Episode 6: Albert Bregeault

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  Ambition, Identity and Fandom- Albert Bregeault In our 6th episode, we head to the city of love and light, Paris, to talk with Albert Bregeault. The Paris Titans and France keeper tells us about the creation of the Titans and the standards they set themselves in order to become the most dominant team in Europe, his ambitions of becoming the world's best and his appreciation of Australia's Callum Mayling and other elite players at the top of the sport. Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify As always, thanks to our listeners for following the pod and for sending in your mailbag questions. Make sure you give the Total Quidditch. facebook page a 'like' so you can keep up to date with future episodes.  Photo Credit- Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography #LiveTheGame

Stateside Stories: Reflections on my summer in the US- Part 1

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Hey Y'all, As the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic rage on and the Black Lives Matter movement fights for racial equality in the face of police brutality and racism in the US and around the world, I decided that it was time to write a different kind of piece and reflect on less turbulent times. This time last year, I was in the US myself, just a few weeks into my trip having visited Boston and New York before heading to Honesdale, Pennsylvania where I'd be working at summer camp for 10 weeks followed by a month's worth of travel around the country afterwards. More or less since I started playing, I knew I wanted to go and play and experience US quidditch for myself someday and having done one summer of camp in the US back in 2014, I also knew that I wanted to return and do another summer at some point so this seemed like as good a time as any to satisfy those two desires. Like when watching match footage, I also enjoy travelling to different countries for quidditch to ...