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/2009/07/womens-football-the-wrong-footed-soccer-maiden-who-bridged-manhattan-and-beijing/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/07/womens-football-the-wrong-footed-soccer-maiden-who-bridged-manhattan-and-beijing/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:31:17 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2386 Gay Talese, following the Women's World Cup final on 10 Jul 99, takes interest in the Chinese player who misses a penalty kick, Liu Ying. With podcast »]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/07/womens-football-the-wrong-footed-soccer-maiden-who-bridged-manhattan-and-beijing/feed/ 4 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/south-africa-barack-in-time-to-settle-2010-security-concerns/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/south-africa-barack-in-time-to-settle-2010-security-concerns/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:15:12 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2218 Barack Obama has put executive-branch muscle and street soccer cred behind the United States bid for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup finals. In Jun 2010 he will attend Opening Ceremonies at Soccer City in Soweto.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/south-africa-barack-in-time-to-settle-2010-security-concerns/feed/ 0 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 Beijing | 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/ 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/2008/03/books-murakami-runs-from-soccer-to-the-distance/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/books-murakami-runs-from-soccer-to-the-distance/#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:20:25 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=398 A multihued archipelago, tuned to soccer's harmonics”), part-time Hawai‘i resident Haruki Murakami reflects in a recent Spiegel Online interview on his sporting interests and their relationship to his writing (“When I Run I Am in a Peaceful Place," Feb 20). (Mar 1)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/books-murakami-runs-from-soccer-to-the-distance/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-multihued-archipelago-tuned-to-soccers-harmonics/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-multihued-archipelago-tuned-to-soccers-harmonics/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:52:52 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=395 Honolulu, Feb 29 | Gamba Osaka's 6–1 victory over Houston Dynamo in the Pan-Pacific Soccer Championships final added another jot to the history of the Japanese on the Hawaiian Islands—a history that spans three centuries and that has helped create a multicultural population well-suited to building soccer from the grassroots.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-multihued-archipelago-tuned-to-soccers-harmonics/feed/ 4 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/08/pride-of-lions-iraqi-asian-cup-victory-reminds-a-civilization-what-normal-feels-like/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/08/pride-of-lions-iraqi-asian-cup-victory-reminds-a-civilization-what-normal-feels-like/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:47:12 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=266 Baghdad, Aug 9 | A triumphant march through the Asian Cup tournament in July contributed to the resurgence of the Arabic phrase Assood al-Rafidain (Lions of Mesopotamia) to refer to the Iraqi national football team. "It's a way of labeling them with this unifying and historic cultural icon," says Newsweek Baghdad correspondent Larry Kaplow, who appeared on our Aug 7 podcast. Rising above divisions by ethnicity and sect, the Iraqi team, which trains and plays matches in Jordan, defeated Saudi Arabia 1–0 on Jul 29 to lift the Asian Cup for the first time.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/08/pride-of-lions-iraqi-asian-cup-victory-reminds-a-civilization-what-normal-feels-like/feed/ 1 0:18:10 Baghdad, Aug 9 | A triumphant march through the Asian Cup tournament in July contributed to the resurgence of the Arabic phrase Assood al-Rafidain (Lions of Mesopotamia) to refer to the Iraqi national football team. "It's a way of labeling t[...] Baghdad, Aug 9 | A triumphant march through the Asian Cup tournament in July contributed to the resurgence of the Arabic phrase Assood al-Rafidain (Lions of Mesopotamia) to refer to the Iraqi national football team. "It's a way of labeling them with this unifying and historic cultural icon," says Newsweek Baghdad correspondent Larry Kaplow, who appeared on our Aug 7 podcast. Rising above divisions by ethnicity and sect, the Iraqi team, which trains and plays matches in Jordan, defeated Saudi Arabia 1–0 on Jul 29 to lift the Asian Cup for the first time. Asia, Grassroots, Iraq, Podcast admin@theglobalgame.com no no http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/01/mind-over-rattan-in-a-meld-of-meditation-and-footvolley-the-burmese-excel/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/01/mind-over-rattan-in-a-meld-of-meditation-and-footvolley-the-burmese-excel/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:06:19 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=217 Doha, Qatar, Jan 3 | In the family tree of football variants, cuju begat chinlone begat sepak raga begat sepak takraw. While this genealogy may be speculative—less formalized and less freighted than that in the first chapter of Matthew—the importance is that the stylized kickball game of imperial China has found expression in the modern era.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/01/mind-over-rattan-in-a-meld-of-meditation-and-footvolley-the-burmese-excel/feed/ 2 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/12/stranded-in-time-ghanaian-plays-football-alone-readings-for-8-december-2006/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/12/stranded-in-time-ghanaian-plays-football-alone-readings-for-8-december-2006/#comments Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:17:22 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=200 Ayi Nii Aryee spends his days in legal limbo, lacking proper paperwork to travel to his destination or back to his point of origin. He has been living at the airport, the one-time U.S. air base formerly known as Clark Field, since July, sleeping first on terminal chairs and then on a cot provided by the airport's fire brigade.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/12/stranded-in-time-ghanaian-plays-football-alone-readings-for-8-december-2006/feed/ 0