Thursday, January 28th, 2010 3:35 pm
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we interview
William Heyen about his poem "Parity," concerning the 1944 football match at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Beside crematoriums, Nazis engineered the ultimate perversion of sport.
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Monday, January 25th, 2010 5:37 am
Football grounds around the world have a tradition of offering refuge from disasters. Stadiums and soccer itself offer shelter and solace in Haiti following the devastating earthquake Jan 12.
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- Grassroots | A big day for Haiti, a big day for little Haitians
- Fields | A new place to play in Little Haiti
- L’Athlétique d’Haiti | ‘The soccer program is going to be back on track’
Monday, January 25th, 2010 1:06 am
Update on the Haiti earthquake from
Laura Anduze, international liaison for L'Athlétique d'Haiti, the youth soccer program founded in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, in 1996 by
Robert Duval.
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- In disaster, soccer infrastructure becomes Haitian lifeline
- Grassroots | A big day for Haiti, a big day for little Haitians
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010 11:57 pm
With Orthodox nativity celebrations upon us, we wonder if Ukrainian traditions of religious iconography and football offer creative ideas for recovering lost history and making one nation.
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 12:22 am
A six-team
fulbito tournament in Lima in December concluded a nationwide competition involving more than 40,000 indigenous Andean women, who don colorful skirts(
polleras) and play on weekends as respite from hard labors at home and in the fields.
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- Literature | ‘The planet is a ball’ … certainly in Suriname
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 2:00 am
As theological statements go, the title of
Aleksandar Hemon's essay in the current
Granta, "If God Existed, He'd Be a Solid Midfielder," would not impress the plethora of seminarians in Hemon's adopted home, Chicago. Nevertheless, for the acclaimed writer from Sarajevo, absence of soccer means spiritual death.
With interview »
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- Books | ‘Global Game’ anthology en route from University of Nebraska Press
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Monday, November 30th, 2009 11:54 pm
The title of
Aleksandar Hemon's essay in the current
Granta, "If God Existed, He'd Be a Solid Midfielder," would not impress seminarians in Hemon's adopted home, Chicago. But for the writer from Sarajevo, lack of soccer means spiritual death.
With interview »
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- Bosnia | ‘Joyful fandom’ & the flares of Sarajevo (w/ podcast)
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 9:23 pm
Eudy Simelane, former midfielder for the senior South African women's national team, Banyana Banyana, shaped her world around football before her murder in Apr 08.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009 11:15 pm
Some 30,000 Ukrainians descended on Moscow in Aug 1969 and sang folk songs in the heart of the Soviet empire. FC Karpaty supporters celebrated the regional second-division club's surprising place in Soviet soccer history.
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