Global Game Wallpaper 29

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Global Game Wallpaper 29

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Mural outside a station along the Réseau Express Régional, the urban-rail network in Paris, on 4 July 2006. On the next day France would defeat Portugal in a World Cup semifinal, but the Coupe du Monde would become known as the Coupe de Boule (Head butt). (Copyright © 2006 Jennifer Stanton)

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John Turnbull founded The Global Game in 2003. He was lead editor for The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) and has also written on soccer for Afriche e Orienti (Bologna, Italy), the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the New York Times Goal blog, Soccer and Society, So Foot (Paris) and When Saturday Comes. His essay "Alone in the Woods: The Literary Landscape of Soccer's 'Last Defender' " in World Literature Today was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Also for World Literature Today he edited a special section on women's soccer, "World Cup/World Lit 2011," before the Women's World Cup in Germany. The section appeared in the May-June issue. His next project is a book on soccer and faith.

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