http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/in-lusophone-ancestral-home-north-americans-on-a-mission-as-new-portuguese/ Soccer as a second language Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/in-lusophone-ancestral-home-north-americans-on-a-mission-as-new-portuguese/comment-page-1/#comment-65318 x-factor Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:47:25 +0000 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=874#comment-65318 Great piece ... I'd like to see more on this subject, with more detail about how to follow these players in the media. The only issue I had with the above is that players like Emerson (playing for Qatar, for whom he has no ancestry but gets paid a lot) can't be fairly compared to women playing for their "blood" countries who pay them little but allow them to re-establish a link with their family roots. Great piece … I’d like to see more on this subject, with more detail about how to follow these players in the media. The only issue I had with the above is that players like Emerson (playing for Qatar, for whom he has no ancestry but gets paid a lot) can’t be fairly compared to women playing for their “blood” countries who pay them little but allow them to re-establish a link with their family roots.

]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/in-lusophone-ancestral-home-north-americans-on-a-mission-as-new-portuguese/comment-page-1/#comment-65131 Of Nationalities and National Teams - USA Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:11:06 +0000 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=874#comment-65131 [...] American players with multiple lineages for many years now. I’ll let Timothy Grainey at The Global Game explain further: Ahead of the 1999 Women’s World Cup in the United States, Mexico stocked more [...] [...] American players with multiple lineages for many years now. I’ll let Timothy Grainey at The Global Game explain further: Ahead of the 1999 Women’s World Cup in the United States, Mexico stocked more [...]

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