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/2010/09/football-made-in-nigeria-a-short-story-by-uzor-maxim-uzoatu/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/09/football-made-in-nigeria-a-short-story-by-uzor-maxim-uzoatu/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:59:19 +0000 Uzor Maxim Uzoatu http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3507 Coach Clemence, a Nigerian side discovers that it cannot play this imported game. “I can’t afford to spend all my life chasing the wind,” says Brother Okoro.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/09/football-made-in-nigeria-a-short-story-by-uzor-maxim-uzoatu/feed/ 2 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/07/taking-a-turn-%e2%80%98in-the-woods%e2%80%99-confronting-the-goalkeeper%e2%80%99s-choice/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/07/taking-a-turn-%e2%80%98in-the-woods%e2%80%99-confronting-the-goalkeeper%e2%80%99s-choice/#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:51:43 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3401 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/07/taking-a-turn-%e2%80%98in-the-woods%e2%80%99-confronting-the-goalkeeper%e2%80%99s-choice/feed/ 6 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/notes-from-babel-to-win-a-world-cup-you-must-be-at-your-most-virtuous/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/notes-from-babel-to-win-a-world-cup-you-must-be-at-your-most-virtuous/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 02:17:40 +0000 Sean Smith http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3209 Sean Smith before the World Cup.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/notes-from-babel-to-win-a-world-cup-you-must-be-at-your-most-virtuous/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/11/in-chicago-midfields-hemon-discovers-transcendental-soccer-nation/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/11/in-chicago-midfields-hemon-discovers-transcendental-soccer-nation/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:54:15 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2856 Aleksandar Hemon, the Bosnian-born writer, lack of soccer means spiritual death. With interview »]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/11/in-chicago-midfields-hemon-discovers-transcendental-soccer-nation/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/ukraine-anatoly-kuznetsov-and-dynamo-kyivs-almost-incredible-story/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/ukraine-anatoly-kuznetsov-and-dynamo-kyivs-almost-incredible-story/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:09:34 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2282 Anatoly Kuznetsov's work, smuggled to the UK in 1969, contained what would become, when translated, one of the first English-language accounts of Dynamo Kyiv's deeds during World War II.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/ukraine-anatoly-kuznetsov-and-dynamo-kyivs-almost-incredible-story/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/05/israel-settling-palestinian-question-in-90-minute-war/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/05/israel-settling-palestinian-question-in-90-minute-war/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 18:37:04 +0000 Alon Raab http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2222 Itay Meirson's first novel, Milchemet Tisheem Hadakot (The 90-Minute War), the intractable Middle Eastern dispute over Palestine is decided in one football match. The winning team keeps the Holy Land. The losers get eastern Oregon.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/05/israel-settling-palestinian-question-in-90-minute-war/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/literature-why-samuel-pepys-was-deemed-unfit-for-the-writers%c2%a0xi/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/literature-why-samuel-pepys-was-deemed-unfit-for-the-writers%c2%a0xi/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:25:05 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1701 Samuel Pepys had too many appointments to indulge in the well-established practice of street soccer. But, one frosty morn in Jan 1665, he notices a street "full of footballs."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/literature-why-samuel-pepys-was-deemed-unfit-for-the-writers%c2%a0xi/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/02/translations-no-ultimo-minuto-%e2%80%98in-the-last-minute%e2%80%99/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/02/translations-no-ultimo-minuto-%e2%80%98in-the-last-minute%e2%80%99/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:38:19 +0000 Sérgio Sant'Anna http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1672 Sérgio Sant'Anna in which a goalkeeper's anxiety and his separation from fellows figure large: "The stadium explodes and I feel my own head bursting apart. ... It’s like everything is very far away, without any relation to me."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/02/translations-no-ultimo-minuto-%e2%80%98in-the-last-minute%e2%80%99/feed/ 2 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/12/literature-israeli-writers-trophy-leads-to-emptiness-of-the-day-after/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/12/literature-israeli-writers-trophy-leads-to-emptiness-of-the-day-after/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:06:32 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1149 Assaf Gavron, captain of the Israeli writers' XI (see 9 Dec 08), regards football as a legitimate literary subject: "The main appeal is to accomplish the boyhood dream of many men really, not only writers. It is to be a football star." With podcast »]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/12/literature-israeli-writers-trophy-leads-to-emptiness-of-the-day-after/feed/ 2