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/2010/06/excavating-american-soccer-fields-uncovering-buried-layers-of-sport/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/06/excavating-american-soccer-fields-uncovering-buried-layers-of-sport/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:48:49 +0000 Martha Saavedra http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3257 Martha Saavedra conducts a virtual excavation of youth soccer fields, showing that all sporting terrain leaves a legacy in sediment and memory.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/06/excavating-american-soccer-fields-uncovering-buried-layers-of-sport/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:35:00 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3078 William Heyen about his poem "Parity," concerning a 1944 football match at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Beside crematoriums, Nazis engineered the ultimate perversion of sport.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/feed/ 3 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/history-ukrainian-will-carpathian-pride-and-the-summer-of-%e2%80%9969/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/history-ukrainian-will-carpathian-pride-and-the-summer-of-%e2%80%9969/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:15:25 +0000 Igor Khrestin http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2512 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/history-ukrainian-will-carpathian-pride-and-the-summer-of-%e2%80%9969/feed/ 3 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/2008/06/in-1937-appearance-james-joyce-joined-hungarians-in-the-middle/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/in-1937-appearance-james-joyce-joined-hungarians-in-the-middle/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:23:44 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=452 Vladimir Nabokov lectures in a Parisian literary salon and espies James Joyce "sitting, arms folded and glasses glinting, in the midst of the Hungarian football team."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/in-1937-appearance-james-joyce-joined-hungarians-in-the-middle/feed/ 3 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/as-foretold-in-scripture-queen-of-the-south-4-aberdeen-3/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/as-foretold-in-scripture-queen-of-the-south-4-aberdeen-3/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:34:33 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=439 Dumfries, Scotland, Apr 18 | "All our dreams are viable," ventures songwriter Chris Belford, launching into the refrain of the Queen of the South anthem. "We're the only team in the Bible." The strength of the connection to Jesus' prophecy about the "queen of the South" rising at judgment day (Matthew 12:42) is dubious, but Doonhamers' supporters, following the side's first berth in a Scottish Cup final, are convinced about the rest: "Something greater than Solomon is here!"]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/as-foretold-in-scripture-queen-of-the-south-4-aberdeen-3/feed/ 4 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:04:15 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=437 Oneida Football Club of Boston, honored with an obelisk in Boston Common as "the first organized football club in the United States." While Oneida played one of the football codes—perhaps a soccer-rugby hybrid—beginning in 1862, photographic evidence offered by a descendant of a Paterson FC captain suggests that the New Jersey side, formed in 1880, staked claim early to playing by the FA rules established in London in 1863.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/feed/ 6 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:43:16 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=420 Newark, New Jersey, Mar 30 | At the start of its 13th season, MLS lacks a nuanced appreciation for history. But the sense of American soccer as a game among immigrant enclaves has been preserved, with regional focus, at Sport Clube Português and within a northeastern amateur league featuring divisions along ethnic lines (see New York Times coverage).]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/feed/ 5 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/poetry-view-well-this-ball-the-present-of-your-lords/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/poetry-view-well-this-ball-the-present-of-your-lords/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:51:57 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=410 Matthew Concanen the Elder's 1720 canto describing a six-a-side football match in Dublin—at variance with a traditional view that only the frenzied folk football variety was contested at the time. The players "around the field in decent order stand ..." (Mar 13)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/poetry-view-well-this-ball-the-present-of-your-lords/feed/ 1