http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog Soccer as a second language Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:25:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Copyright © The Global Game 2011 admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) 1440 http://www.theglobalgame.com/images/dembaksm.jpg http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog 144 144 Soccer as a second language The Global Game The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com no no http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/when-kanoute-scored-and-iraq-exploded%e2%80%94a-spurs-supporters-prison-diray/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/when-kanoute-scored-and-iraq-exploded%e2%80%94a-spurs-supporters-prison-diray/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 02:16:23 +0000 Emad Nimah http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3190 Emad Nimah's "grief was made worse due to total ignorance of how Tottenham were getting on."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/when-kanoute-scored-and-iraq-exploded%e2%80%94a-spurs-supporters-prison-diray/feed/ 2 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 04:37:09 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3006 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/in-disaster-soccer-infrastructure-becomes-haitian-lifeline/feed/ 3 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.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/lathletique-dhaiti-the-soccer-program-is-going-to-be-back-on-track/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/books-municipal-de-futbol-where-angelenos-do-not-fear-to-tread/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/books-municipal-de-futbol-where-angelenos-do-not-fear-to-tread/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:41:43 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1902 Municipal de Fútbol focuses on what the project's essayist, Jennifer Doyle, calls the most developed subculture in Los Angeles: improvisational soccer. With podcast »]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/books-municipal-de-futbol-where-angelenos-do-not-fear-to-tread/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/02/grassroots-cleats-of-many-nations-now-tread-georgia-clay/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/02/grassroots-cleats-of-many-nations-now-tread-georgia-clay/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:50:56 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1522 Martin Luther King Day soccer tournament. Local nonprofits use soccer to help children from warring countries, whether Angola or Burma or Sudan, adjust. With video (8:39) »]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/02/grassroots-cleats-of-many-nations-now-tread-georgia-clay/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/trading-fruitcakes-for-futbol-as-soccer-project-reaches-la-paz/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/trading-fruitcakes-for-futbol-as-soccer-project-reaches-la-paz/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:07:22 +0000 Gwendolyn Oxenham http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=909 Gwendolyn Oxenham chronicles The Soccer Project, an in-process documentary film that tells of the intimate bonds soccer creates through pickup games (aka “kickabouts”) in South America, Israel, France, Kenya and elsewhere.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/trading-fruitcakes-for-futbol-as-soccer-project-reaches-la-paz/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:58:39 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=728 Ron Newman helped build the U.S. game, calling on carpentry skills to construct goalposts out of discarded building materials. In Atlanta in 1967, he jumped off a Memorial Day float and kicked a ball to youngsters. With podcast »]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/feed/ 2 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/for-brazil-silence-is-golden-at-paralympic-final/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/for-brazil-silence-is-golden-at-paralympic-final/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:43:37 +0000 Veronique Dragonet http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=674 Beijing | Brazil's got a striker so good he can score blindfolded. Felipe Marcos's goal in the last minute broke a tie with China and gave Brazil Paralympic gold, 2–1, in five-a-side soccer, blind classification.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/for-brazil-silence-is-golden-at-paralympic-final/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:31:53 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=454 Sports Illustrated writer Gary Smith again has applied his odd epistemology to soccer (“Alive and Kicking," Jun 23). In 8,000 words, he writes passionately in his familiar mode of author-vacated all-knowing about the Fugees of Clarkston, Georgia—ground already well plowed by Warren St. John of the New York Times (see 25 Jan 07). (Jun 19)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/feed/ 1