Frontline Football

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 4: Colombia

  Ben Anderson visits Colombia to watch the national side attempt to qualify for the World Cup in a tense match with Venezuela - a country whose sporting record has improved greatly in recent years. Ben considers the influence Colombia's internal conflict between army, paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas has had on the game, and looks back to the nation's footballing glory days, when the team even received enthusiastic financial support from the cocaine barons. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 3: Palestine

  Ben Anderson travels to the Middle East to highlight the unenviable predicament of the Palestinian football squad, as they look to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. The war-torn country's involvement in the sport faces a bleak future as pitches are bombed on a daily basis, and team members are unable to train together due to travel restrictions - so organisers must even resort to advertising on the Internet to recruit players

• Season 1 Episode 2: Bosnia

  Ben Anderson visits the former Yugoslavia, where Bosnia-Herzegovina are about to play a home match against Serbia - the first time the two countries have faced each other on the pitch since the end of the war. He considers how terrace violence was one of the early expressions of the ethnic conflict between Serbs and Bosnian Muslims, and waits to see if the crowd can contain their passion during this tense game