http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog Soccer as a second language Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:50:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 ©The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) admin@theglobalgame.com(The Global Game) 1440 football, soccer, world cup, women soccer, world football, world soccer, fifa, football culture Interviews on world soccer culture. Interviews on world soccer culture. 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/cinema-the-zen-of-mathare-brew-liquor-carry-water-play-soccer/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-the-zen-of-mathare-brew-liquor-carry-water-play-soccer/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:06:22 +0000 Gwendolyn Oxenham http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=988 Gwendolyn Oxenham's diaries supporting The Soccer Project. (Nov 30)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-the-zen-of-mathare-brew-liquor-carry-water-play-soccer/feed/ 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/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/in-liberias-hidden-places-amputee-footballers-wait-for-empowerment/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/in-liberias-hidden-places-amputee-footballers-wait-for-empowerment/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:14:06 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=429 Monrovia, Liberia, Apr 6 | Football has its hidden stories, but even when these stories are reported some aspects still remain hidden. Such is the case with amputee footballers of Liberia, who on Apr 6 defeated neighbor Sierra Leone to earn the championship of the second All Africa Amputee Cup of Nations. In the final at Antoinette Tubman Stadium—the facility named for the spouse of former president William Tubman—Junior Kulee scored Liberia's lone goal. With 14-minute podcast.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/in-liberias-hidden-places-amputee-footballers-wait-for-empowerment/feed/ 14:23 Monrovia, Liberia #124; Football has its hidden stories, but even when these stories are reported some aspects still remain hidden. Such is the case with amputee ... Monrovia, Liberia #124; Football has its hidden stories, but even when these stories are reported some aspects still remain hidden. Such is the case with amputee footballers of Liberia, who on Aprnbsp;6 defeated neighbor Sierra Leone to earn the championship of the second All Africa Amputee Cup of Nations. In the final at Antoinette Tubman Stadiummdash;the facility named for the spouse of former president William Tubmanmdash;Junior Kulee scored Liberia's lone goal. The segment, reported by Ackerman, aired on Foreign Exchange on 4nbsp;Jan 08. Peter Tarr, describing the routine of begging on Monrovia streets, says that "we wait for people who got golden hearts." (Copyright copy; 2008 Azimuth Media #124; World Security Insitute, in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, 8:12) Journalist Ruthie Ackerman had come across a side of amputee footballers during a reporting visit to Monrovia. Unlike earlier media reports, the results of her investigationmdash;including an article in The Nation (ldquo;Scars and Stripes," 28 Jan 08)mdash;focused on the less seemly aspects of the amputees' stories: that they must beg for their bread and that many have been left in the lurch by oversubscribed and underfunded rehabilitation programs. More to come ... Africa,,Faith,amp;,Resistance,,Podcast The Global Game no No http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/showing-mugabe-the-red-card-proves-a-difficult-trick/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/showing-mugabe-the-red-card-proves-a-difficult-trick/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:42:41 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=413 Harare, Zimbabwe, Mar 28 | For nearly 10 years political opponents have tried to send off President Robert Mugabe, but he still has not left the pitch. Drawing on the range of football metaphor in the Zimbabwean political process, the Movement for Democratic Change shortly after its founding in 1999 initiated a red-card campaign to retire the 84-year-old strongman, who has led the state since independence in 1980. Voters have another opportunity to reject Mugabe on Saturday at parliamentary and presidential elections.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/showing-mugabe-the-red-card-proves-a-difficult-trick/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/womens-football-maize-husks-mark-lines-in-mzuzu-says-mr-happy/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/womens-football-maize-husks-mark-lines-in-mzuzu-says-mr-happy/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:18:13 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=415 Africa Unplugged in Nkhata Bay, Malawi. A revival of the charity's Nkhata Bay United Sisters FC (see 15 Jan 07) involved several players participating in regional trials for the Malawi senior women's team. (Mar 19)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/womens-football-maize-husks-mark-lines-in-mzuzu-says-mr-happy/feed/ 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 03:27:06 +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/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/internet-testing-liveblogging-with-ghana-v-cameroon/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/internet-testing-liveblogging-with-ghana-v-cameroon/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:32:42 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=377 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/internet-testing-liveblogging-with-ghana-v-cameroon/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/california-ghana-and-a-football-exchange/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/california-ghana-and-a-football-exchange/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:16:25 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=324 Robert Sackey for the first time takes a girls' team to his native Ghana. (Dec 17)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/california-ghana-and-a-football-exchange/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/10/players-on-a-masculine-stage-juggling-identities-moroccan-women-look-for-a-game/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/10/players-on-a-masculine-stage-juggling-identities-moroccan-women-look-for-a-game/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:55:15 +0000 Nicole Matuska http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=276 Juggling identities, Moroccan women look for a game Rabat, Morocco, Oct 1 | Fulbright fellow Nicole Matuska wonders why players with the women's club side she has been following for the past year are not watching the Women's World Cup. "A paradox still exists. In spite of [their] achievements, the football field remains a masculine stage."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/10/players-on-a-masculine-stage-juggling-identities-moroccan-women-look-for-a-game/feed/