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The Global Game The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com No no http://www.theglobalgame.com/images/dembaksm.jpg http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog 144 144 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 Nov 23 | Filmmaker, writer and footballer 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/ 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 20:58:39 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=728 Oct 4 | Ron Newman built the U.S. game in literal terms, 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.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/feed/ 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 Sept 17 | 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/ 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/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/far-west-of-the-carpathians-ukraine-unites/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/far-west-of-the-carpathians-ukraine-unites/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:52:53 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=451 Toronto, Jun 9 | At any given time, an uncountable number of football universes exist in parallel. Such was the case in late May when Ukraine United and Shakhtar FC faced each other in a friendly match, not in the motherland, but on an artificial pitch at the 25-acre Ontario Soccer Centre.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/far-west-of-the-carpathians-ukraine-unites/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/05/a-big-day-for-haiti-a-big-day-for-little-haitians/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/05/a-big-day-for-haiti-a-big-day-for-little-haitians/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:20:13 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=449 Miami | Haiti past, present and future came together early in May on an urban oasis in Little Haiti. After 10 years of negotiation and bureaucratic delay, an all too rare inner-city, publicly funded, full-size soccer pitch opened on one-time industrial ground north of downtown. With multimedia and podcast.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/05/a-big-day-for-haiti-a-big-day-for-little-haitians/feed/ 26:29 The multimedia presentation includes interviews with Emmanuel Sanon Jr.mdash;after whose father the park is namedmdash;Miami immigration attorney Andre Pierre and social activist and Lrsquo;Athleacute;tique drsquo;Haiti ... The multimedia presentation includes interviews with Emmanuel Sanon Jr.mdash;after whose father the park is namedmdash;Miami immigration attorney Andre Pierre and social activist and Lrsquo;Athleacute;tique drsquo;Haiti president Robert Duval. One of Duval's teams from Citeacute; Soleil in Port-au-Prince provided opposition in a series of opening-day friendly matches. (6:55) Go to full-size version raquo; Miami #124; Haiti past, present and future came together earlier this month on an urban oasis in La Petite Haiti. After 10 years of negotiation and bureaucratic delay, an all too rare inner-city, publicly funded, full-size soccer pitch opened May 3 on one-time industrial ground north of downtown. In the end, consecration of the park became an act of remembrance to Emmanuel "Manno" Sanon, referred to as an "objet d'art du football haitien" in obituaries following his death in February, at 56, from pancreatic cancer. Sanon's home was in Conway, Florida, outside Orlando, but he had maintained contacts in Miami as well as his broader significance within Haitian culture. His goal against Italy in Haiti's first and only World Cup finals appearance in 1974 proved, at some level, Haiti's existence to the world. Some grumbled that the Sanon Soccer Park had cost too much, took too long to be realized and lacked the necessary amenities, but on opening day it looked like paradise. One would be hard pressed to find such an unbroken greenscapemdash;consisting of a regulation FIFA field and practice area along with airy, covered grandstandmdash;elsewhere in urban America (see also Feb 9). The atmosphere took on aspects of Carnival with roving bands of konegrave; (trumpet) players and revellers. Pointing to one group that bounced and drummed during a series of three friendly matches, local businessman Edward Leon said, "This is what it is like in Haiti," referring to the rara festival or Haitian Mardi Gras, the time to acknowledge the return of life. In front of the stadium, kids splashed in a water park surrounded by palm trees; water sheeted from the top of what looked like a giant mushroom. Vendors sold goat's-meat pies and banaan peze (pressed plantains), accessorized by sugary fruit drinks. A steady kreyograve;l patter burst from the announcer's boothmdash;comments on the play and sales pitches for currency-transfer shops and bargains on international dialing rates. Goat's-meat pie with rice adds savor to a display of futebol arte, the preferred Haitian expression of the game. Given its longtime connection with the Haitian diasporamdash;intellectuals, exiled by Franccedil;ois Duvalier, started arriving in Miami and South Florida in the 1950smdash;Little Haiti, while boasting its own institutions and creative force, has retained some of the factionalism in Haitian society. "There is division here, too," says Marleine Bastien, executive director of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (Haitian Women of Miami). But, echoing the comments of other Miami-based Haitians, Bastien mentions soccer's rallying power and its capacity to give life a communal purpose. "The only time Lavalas, Convergence and other factions come together is for soccer. Everyone is there. When there is a game, people wave the Haitian flag." According to Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center, some 400,000 Haitians and Haitian Americans live in the Miami-Dade region, having arrived in increasingly impoverished and desperate waves beginning in the 1970s. A soccer park fills a gap in the slow reconstitution of a neighborhood that many Haitians, once established, seek to leave. Haitians have made their mark locally in creating radio stations and newspapers and in winning political office, but the centrality of football to Haitian life could not find a steady outlet. Miami attorney Andre Pierre, who emigrated from Haiti in 1983, opened his own firm to emphasize immigration law and has represented several hundred asylum seekers. He played in the ... Caribbean,,Grassroots,amp;,Youth,,Podcast,,Stadia,amp;,Supporters,,Teaching,Resources,,USA The Global Game no No http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/islands-the-pan-pacific-soccer-paradise/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/islands-the-pan-pacific-soccer-paradise/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:12:23 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=390 Michael Tsai, "Can the Pan-Pacific Soccer Tourney Deliver?" Honolulu Advertiser, Feb 18). Such grassroots strength—for additional background, see our report of 7 Jun 06—has helped lure the Pan-Pacific Soccer Championships, which starts Feb 20. (Feb 19)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/islands-the-pan-pacific-soccer-paradise/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-new-place-to-play-in-little-haiti/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-new-place-to-play-in-little-haiti/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:29:34 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=380 Miami, Feb 9 | A cultural renaissance in Miami's La Petite Haiti (Little Haiti), the most populous Haitian neighborhood outside the Caribbean nation, continues as a community complex and soccer park conceived 10 years ago come to fruition. A series of soccer games on 3 May will conclude two days of inaugural events, including an art exhibition at the nine-acre site at Northeast Second Avenue and 59th Street.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-new-place-to-play-in-little-haiti/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/slippery-white-pitch-tricky-footing-for-linesmen-the-ball-gets-a-kick/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/slippery-white-pitch-tricky-footing-for-linesmen-the-ball-gets-a-kick/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:06:16 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=362 Atlanta, Jan 20 | The freakish confluence of Arctic cold with Gulf of Mexico–spawned low pressure on Jan 19 seemed to bode great things for the three-seven-year-old Metropolitan Atlanta Casual Soccer League. Snow started falling at 10 a.m., an hour before matchtime. Children shouted in the cold. Atlantans had the steering wheels of 2½-ton sport-utility vehicles in their viselike grips, praying for safe passage over slightly damp pavement.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/slippery-white-pitch-tricky-footing-for-linesmen-the-ball-gets-a-kick/feed/