Wor(l)ds for football | From ‘ball-coise’ to ‘kaduregel’ to ‘voetbal’
A long explanation for why we include “socca’ ” and “socker” on our newest T-shirt offering.
Archive for April, 2007
Apr 20, 2007 | 7 comments
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The year of Speedy Gonzales | In 2006 Texas final, Brownsville’s Cowboys produced outsider’s art
The Porter High School Cowboys’ soccer season ended prematurely this year, in a regional quarterfinal playoff to Brownsville rivals Rivera.
By defeating Coppell in the 2006 final, the school, however, will always lay claim to having become the first team from the Rio Grande Valley, in any sport, to have won a state championship competing among Texas’ largest high schools (class 5A). They also validated, in the face of prejudice, their existence as straddlers of culture and language.
Apr 13, 2007 | 5 comments
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Apr 03, 2007 | 0 comments
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Talisman of the throw | FIFA searches for new moniker to proclaim Blatter’s reign
Zurich, Apr 1 | Suits at FIFA, the governing body for the world game, apparently are a bit miffed at the license being taken with Joseph “Sepp” Blatter‘s honorific. Gliding unopposed into a third term as FIFA president, Blatter has on occasion been heralded in press reports as the FIFA “boss,” “supremo” or, sometimes, “kingpin.”
Apr 01, 2007 | 0 comments
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