The Global Game http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog Soccer as a second language Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 2007-2009 admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) posts 1440 football, soccer, world cup, women soccer, world football, world soccer, fifa, football culture Interviews on world soccer culture. Interviews on world soccer culture. The Global Game The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com No no http://www.theglobalgame.com/images/dembaksm.jpg The Global Game http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog 144 144 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/TheGlobalGamehttp://feedburner.google.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Auschwitz and the perversion of football http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:35:00 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3078 William Heyen about his poem "Parity," concerning the 1944 football match at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Beside crematoriums, Nazis engineered the ultimate perversion of sport. No related posts.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/feed/ 0 In disaster, soccer infrastructure becomes Haitian lifeline http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/in-disaster-soccer-infrastructure-becomes-haitian-lifeline/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/in-disaster-soccer-infrastructure-becomes-haitian-lifeline/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:37:09 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3006
  • 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’
    • ]]>     http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/in-disaster-soccer-infrastructure-becomes-haitian-lifeline/feed/ 0     L’Athlétique d’Haiti | ‘The soccer program is going to be back on track’ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/lathletique-dhaiti-the-soccer-program-is-going-to-be-back-on-track/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/lathletique-dhaiti-the-soccer-program-is-going-to-be-back-on-track/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:06:14 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3033 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. Related posts:
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    ]]>     http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/lathletique-dhaiti-the-soccer-program-is-going-to-be-back-on-track/feed/ 0     Ahead of 2012, Ukraine reclaims iconographic and football treasures http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/ahead-of-2012-ukraine-reclaims-iconographic-and-football-treasures/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/ahead-of-2012-ukraine-reclaims-iconographic-and-football-treasures/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:57:27 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2958
  • Anatoly Kuznetsov and Dynamo Kyiv’s ‘almost incredible’ story
  • Canada | Far west of the Carpathians, Ukraine unites
  • Ukraine | Coal mining, football and other former Soviet spheres of influence
    • ]]>     http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/ahead-of-2012-ukraine-reclaims-iconographic-and-football-treasures/feed/ 1     Peruvian women, in ‘fulbito Andino,’ find light in the darkness http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/peruvian-women-in-fulbito-andino-find-light-in-the-darkness/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/peruvian-women-in-fulbito-andino-find-light-in-the-darkness/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:22:17 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2931 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. Related posts:
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    ]]>     http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/11/in-chicago-midfields-hemon-discovers-transcendental-soccer-nation/feed/ 0     Afrika’s tale—saved from the streets to play on the streets http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/09/south-africa-afrikas-tale%e2%80%94saved-from-the-streets-to-play-on-the-streets/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/09/south-africa-afrikas-tale%e2%80%94saved-from-the-streets-to-play-on-the-streets/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:04:14 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2644 Martin Afrika. The 32-year-old captain for South Africa at the Homeless World Cup has reconstructed his identity through sport. With podcast » Related posts:
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    ]]>     http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/09/south-africa-afrikas-tale%e2%80%94saved-from-the-streets-to-play-on-the-streets/feed/ 1     Remembering Eudy, KwaThema’s brightest, killed on its darkest night http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/south-africa-remembering-eudy-kwathemas-brightest-killed-on-its-darkest-night/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/south-africa-remembering-eudy-kwathemas-brightest-killed-on-its-darkest-night/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:23:17 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2556 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. Related posts:
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    ]]>     http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/south-africa-remembering-eudy-kwathemas-brightest-killed-on-its-darkest-night/feed/ 10     Ukrainian will, Carpathian pride and the summer of ’69 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/history-ukrainian-will-carpathian-pride-and-the-summer-of-%e2%80%9969/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/history-ukrainian-will-carpathian-pride-and-the-summer-of-%e2%80%9969/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:15:25 +0000 Igor Khrestin http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2512
  • In the end, they opted for Christmas Orange
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