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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/2008/10/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/ 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 Sept 17 | 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/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/born-in-invisible-town-marta-gains-life-in-visible-ink/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/born-in-invisible-town-marta-gains-life-in-visible-ink/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:40:36 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=576 Sept 15 | Diego Graciano makes clear in the title of his biography the nature of Marta’s struggle. Você é mulher, Marta! (You Are a Woman, Marta!) alludes to Marta's mother's reply when, as a girl, Marta asked her for a real ball.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/born-in-invisible-town-marta-gains-life-in-visible-ink/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/womens-football-this-book-is-dedicated-to-other-martas-barefoot-and-dirty/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/womens-football-this-book-is-dedicated-to-other-martas-barefoot-and-dirty/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:07:13 +0000 Diego Graciano http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=600 Você é mulher, Marta (You Are a Woman, Marta!) (2008), the new biography of Marta Vieira da Silva by Diego Graciano. (Sept 15)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/womens-football-this-book-is-dedicated-to-other-martas-barefoot-and-dirty/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/brasil-brasil/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/brasil-brasil/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:22:17 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=299 Brasil, Brasil, tracks the evolution of Brazilian music, from samba to forró to bossa nova to tropicalia to AfroReggae. Almost all of these traditions intersect with football.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/brasil-brasil/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/invisible-chain-of-solidarity-football-generated-passions-says-coelho-will-propel-brazil-toward-2014/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/invisible-chain-of-solidarity-football-generated-passions-says-coelho-will-propel-brazil-toward-2014/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:30:17 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=281 Football-generated passions, says Coelho, will propel Brazil toward 2014 Paris, Nov 8 | Within 24 hours of writing about Brazil's successful presentation to host the 2014 World Cup and the role of writer Paulo Coelho in the bid effort, we received a message from one of Coelho's assistants, taking note of our comments. We speak with Coelho about his role in the bid and the place of football in Brazilian life.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/invisible-chain-of-solidarity-football-generated-passions-says-coelho-will-propel-brazil-toward-2014/feed/ 18:06 Interview with writer Paulo Coelho on Brazil\'s successful bid to host the 2014 World Cup. Interview with writer Paulo Coelho on Brazil\'s successful bid to host the 2014 World Cup. Brazil,,FIFA,amp;,Governance,,Language,amp;,Literature,,Podcast The Global Game no No http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/garbage-will-be-collected-selectively-banal-wordplay-leads-to-inevitable-end-brazil-in-2014/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/garbage-will-be-collected-selectively-banal-wordplay-leads-to-inevitable-end-brazil-in-2014/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:07:58 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=279 Banal wordplay leads to inevitable end ... Brazil in 2014 Rio de Janeiro, Nov 1 | Should a nation's literary talent be enlisted as part of a state's quest for sporting laurels? One might ask the question following novelist Paulo Coelho's appearance on behalf of the Brazilian football federation Oct 30 in Zurich, backing the country's successful quest for the 2014 World Cup finals.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/garbage-will-be-collected-selectively-banal-wordplay-leads-to-inevitable-end-brazil-in-2014/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/09/do-other-martas-exist-in-machista-brazilian-culture-one-cant-be-sure/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/09/do-other-martas-exist-in-machista-brazilian-culture-one-cant-be-sure/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:13:43 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=272 Rio de Janeiro, Sept 12 | Argentine journalist Diego Graciano since 2004 has been assembling the story of Marta Vieira da Silva, Brazil's greatest female player and a potentially galvanizing figure in lifting women's status in her country. With her exploits in the cathedral of Brazilian futebol in July, leading the team to a Pan American Games gold medal with 12 goals and having her footprints calcified in the Maracana's Walk of Fame, she pushed herself into Brazil's male-dominated sporting consciousness.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/09/do-other-martas-exist-in-machista-brazilian-culture-one-cant-be-sure/feed/ 2:10 A young Flamengo fan in the Maracanatilde; celebrates Marta's exploits at the Pan American Games in July. The sign reads, with reference to the Rio-based ... A young Flamengo fan in the Maracanatilde; celebrates Marta's exploits at the Pan American Games in July. The sign reads, with reference to the Rio-based scarlet-and-black, "Marta in the Mengatilde;o is the solution." (copy; 2007 Infoglobo S/A) Rio de Janeiro #124; Late last year we spent several days compiling a sketchy life history of Brazil's superior playmaking talent Marta Vieira da Silva (28 Dec 06). For our impressions we relied mainly on a Swedish documentary, Marta, Peleacute;s kusin (Marta, Peleacute;'s Cousin), that featured dialogue in Portuguese and subtitles in Swedish. Such is the sparseness of the English-language record. Little did we know that Marta, 21, has her own biographermdash;Argentine journalist Diego Graciano, who since 2004 has been assembling the story of Brazil's greatest female player and a potentially galvanizing figure in lifting women's status in her country. With her exploits in the cathedral of Brazilian futebol in July, leading the team to a Pan American Games gold medal with 12 goals and having her footprints calcified in the Maracanatilde;'s Walk of Fame (25 Jul 07), she pushed herself into Brazil's male-dominated sporting consciousness. (Click the link below to hear an account, in Brazilian radio broadcasting's signature reverb, of the side's fourth goal in the Jul 26 final, a 5ndash;0 victory over the U.S. U-20 team. Marta scores on a spot kick.) To find interest in his book, however, Graciano may have to rely on another superhuman performance from Marta in China and a Brazilian championship. As it stands, as Graciano writes in a recent e-mail interview (see below), "[T]here is not much interest from Brazilian publishers in having her life in their collections." Marta and her teammates have been advocating for a Brazilian league, but they are battling institutional inertia and a history that banned soccer for women until 1979. The federal government beginning in the 1980s limited sponsorship opportunities for women and prevented their competitions from being held at athletic grounds, consigning them to, in many cases, the beaches in Rio. Copacabana Beach, in fact, in 1981 served as the venue for the first women's tournament. The strongest women's side through much of the 1980s, Esporte Clube Radar, used the beach as its home ground. Opposition to women playing football has been constant. The challenges range from the physicalmdash;Marta reports that her brother hit her when he found she was playing, and BBC columnist Tim Vickery's girlfriend says she got similar lashings from her father (BBC Sport, Sept 10)mdash;to the subtly patronizing gender stereotypes that frame women, in the main, as an object of the male gaze or as devoted disciples of home and church. "Today, when I came into the field, I heard a guy say that I should be at a laundry sink, washing clothes," said a Radar player in 1984. "But I did not bother to reply to him, although I was angry. My reaction came later, with the ball at my feet." Writing in 1983, Janet Lever witnesses the stirrings of interest in women's soccer and sees the game as a social agent for starting to break down the "sexual apartheid" characterizing Brazilian society. She notices the large numbers of women who wager in the national sport lottery, yet comments that the women did not yet feel welcome as spectators: Women and girls have stayed away from stadia to "protect their reputations" and have avoided beach soccer and park games because of the coarse language and rowdy crowds. ... As it is now, men and women have different interests. The men I talked with insisted that their wives have the church and they have soccer. In traditional parts of Brazil, church is the one place women are trusted to go unescorted. It is a safe world for women, giving them freedom of movement to organize charities, fund-raisers, and social events. Unlike men's interest in soccer, however, women's churchgoing keeps them close to home. The ch... Brazil,,Language,amp;,Literature,,Teaching,Resources,,Women's,Football The Global Game no No http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/07/file-under-aesthetics-five-epiphanic-goals-from-marta-vieira-da-silva/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/07/file-under-aesthetics-five-epiphanic-goals-from-marta-vieira-da-silva/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:15:47 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=264 Rio de Janeiro, Jul 25 | Normally we do not post goal videos, but that these are goals by a woman—albeit one of the world's best-known players, Marta Vieira da Silva of Brazil—and that they were scored at a "lesser" football competition, the 15th Pan American Games, means that otherwise they will rapidly fade into obscurity, as if they had never happened.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/07/file-under-aesthetics-five-epiphanic-goals-from-marta-vieira-da-silva/feed/