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/koman-coulibaly-refereeing-and-the-electronic-scrum-for-truth/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/06/koman-coulibaly-refereeing-and-the-electronic-scrum-for-truth/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:17:14 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3371 Koman Coulibaly is scapegoated in the U.S. draw with Slovenia Jun 18, launching a vicious Wikipedia war that sacrifices his humanity and ours.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/06/koman-coulibaly-refereeing-and-the-electronic-scrum-for-truth/feed/ 3 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/2010/05/palestinian-soccer-drama%e2%80%94%e2%80%98team-building-for-social-change/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/palestinian-soccer-drama%e2%80%94%e2%80%98team-building-for-social-change/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 01:51:41 +0000 Alon Raab http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3160 The Team creates a football-based "soap opera for social change."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/palestinian-soccer-drama%e2%80%94%e2%80%98team-building-for-social-change/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/03/on-streets-without-a-name-pelada-films-the-football-we-never-knew/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/03/on-streets-without-a-name-pelada-films-the-football-we-never-knew/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:53:30 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3112 Pelada debuts at the South by Southwest Film Festival as the ultimate expression of football's capacity for communion.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/03/on-streets-without-a-name-pelada-films-the-football-we-never-knew/feed/ 10 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/brazil-martas-story-deserves-to-be-told-but-who-deserves-to-tell-it/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/brazil-martas-story-deserves-to-be-told-but-who-deserves-to-tell-it/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:23:39 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=779 Diego Graciano in promoting his biography of sensational 22-year-old Marta Vieira da Silva (see earlier articles, Sept 15 and 12 Sept 07). (Oct 13)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/brazil-martas-story-deserves-to-be-told-but-who-deserves-to-tell-it/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 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/africa-destroyers-v-rebuilders-a-zimbabwean-allegory/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/africa-destroyers-v-rebuilders-a-zimbabwean-allegory/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:36:41 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=433 Zimbabwe Standard (“Matchless Match," Apr 12), the Destroyers—meaning the state apparatus of entrenched president Robert Mugabe—hold a 10–2 edge over political opponents, the Rebuilders. (Apr 15)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/africa-destroyers-v-rebuilders-a-zimbabwean-allegory/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/china-football-at-all-compass-points-on-eastsouthwestnorth/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/china-football-at-all-compass-points-on-eastsouthwestnorth/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:59:20 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=404 James Montague has dissected the "footballing Venn diagram of ... political and social hatreds" that constituted the recent East Asian Championships in Chongqing, China (“Football? What Football? The Asian Game Is about Politics," Guardian Unlimited, Mar 3). Within Asia, Montague concludes, football still comes with political intrigue, readily available in every permutation of a four-team round-robin featuring the hosts plus Japan, South Korea and North Korea. (Mar 5)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/china-football-at-all-compass-points-on-eastsouthwestnorth/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/music-kwass-meda-a-soccer-field-where-we-will-be-joyous/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/music-kwass-meda-a-soccer-field-where-we-will-be-joyous/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:27:06 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=383 Ejigayehu Shibabaw's, or Gigi's, song "Kwass Meda" (Soccer Field). The song features on the 2000 release One Ethiopia, with the translation from Amharic by Solomon Abebe and his nephew, Befekadu. (Feb 11)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/music-kwass-meda-a-soccer-field-where-we-will-be-joyous/feed/ 2