Like a team with an evolving and revolving roster that comes together for international friendlies, the BGs (The Beautiful Game Basel Group) are a loose affiliation of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds who assemble to investigate the relationship between beauty and soccer. Beginning with the Beautiful Game conference at Basel in July 2016, then subsequent workshops and conferences in Wake Forest, Dortmund, and Dublin, as well as the publication of the edited collection, The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer, David Kilpatrick moderates a discussion with Ridvan Askin, Aline Bieri, Catherine Diedrich, Adam Kadlac, Michael O’Hara, Cyprian Piskurek, and Connell Vaughan on the birth, growth, and future of the BGs.

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