Brenda Elsey is an associate professor of history at Hofstra University and the author of Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile. In addition to numerous scholarly articles on politics and popular culture in Latin America, her writing has appeared in the Guardian, The New Republic, and Sports Illustrated. She co-hosts the weekly feminism and sports podcast Burn It All Down.

Joshua Nadel is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at North Carolina Central University. He is the author of Fútbol! Why Soccer Matters in Latin America as well as numerous scholarly book chapters. He has published essays in Foreign Policy, the Washington Post's newsletter Monkey Cage, Zócalo Public Square, and the Telegraph (London).