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/2007/12/footballs-place-in-yuletide-ritual/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/footballs-place-in-yuletide-ritual/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:40:58 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=340 Pascal Khoo Thwe recalls in From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey that football helped mark the festival calendar. To commemorate trophies at distant tournaments, his township team would receive homecoming welcome from a brass band playing Handel. But not The Messiah. (Dec 29)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/footballs-place-in-yuletide-ritual/feed/ 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 02:06:19 +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/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/04/documenting-the-passed-cane-ball-trapped-on-celluloid/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/04/documenting-the-passed-cane-ball-trapped-on-celluloid/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:34:52 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=137 Mandalay, Burma, Apr 20 | Dry dispatches announcing chinlone tournaments appear occasionally in the New Light of Myanmar, the mouthpiece of Burma's military regime. The terse pronouncements show that despite the political and economic torpor and the governing junta's Orwellian logic—the capital recently was relocated from Rangoon based partly on the forecasts of astrologers—a taste for the beauties of "cane ball" remains.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/04/documenting-the-passed-cane-ball-trapped-on-celluloid/feed/