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/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:35:00 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3078 William Heyen about his poem "Parity," concerning a 1944 football match at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Beside crematoriums, Nazis engineered the ultimate perversion of sport.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/auschwitz-and-the-perversion-of-football/feed/ 3 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/ahead-of-2012-ukraine-reclaims-iconographic-and-football-treasures/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/ahead-of-2012-ukraine-reclaims-iconographic-and-football-treasures/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:57:27 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2958 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/ahead-of-2012-ukraine-reclaims-iconographic-and-football-treasures/feed/ 2 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/history-ukrainian-will-carpathian-pride-and-the-summer-of-%e2%80%9969/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/history-ukrainian-will-carpathian-pride-and-the-summer-of-%e2%80%9969/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:15:25 +0000 Igor Khrestin http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2512 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/08/history-ukrainian-will-carpathian-pride-and-the-summer-of-%e2%80%9969/feed/ 3 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/ukraine-anatoly-kuznetsov-and-dynamo-kyivs-almost-incredible-story/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/ukraine-anatoly-kuznetsov-and-dynamo-kyivs-almost-incredible-story/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:09:34 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2282 Anatoly Kuznetsov's work, smuggled to the UK in 1969, contained what would become, when translated, one of the first English-language accounts of Dynamo Kyiv's deeds during World War II.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/06/ukraine-anatoly-kuznetsov-and-dynamo-kyivs-almost-incredible-story/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/far-west-of-the-carpathians-ukraine-unites/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/far-west-of-the-carpathians-ukraine-unites/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:52:53 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=451 Ukraine United and Shakhtar played a friendly, not in the motherland, but on an artificial pitch at Ontario Soccer Centre.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/far-west-of-the-carpathians-ukraine-unites/feed/ 5 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/near-chernobyl-the-football-forest-designed-to-radiate-life/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/near-chernobyl-the-football-forest-designed-to-radiate-life/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:40:18 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=448 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/near-chernobyl-the-football-forest-designed-to-radiate-life/feed/ 6 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/internet-liveblogging-dnipro-dnipropetrovsk-v-dynamo-kyiv/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/internet-liveblogging-dnipro-dnipropetrovsk-v-dynamo-kyiv/#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:45:26 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=400 Ukrainian championship—back after winter break—and the weekend's top fixture, second-place Dnipro Dnipropetrovs'k (43 points) hosting fourth-place Dynamo Kyiv (39). (Mar 2)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/internet-liveblogging-dnipro-dnipropetrovsk-v-dynamo-kyiv/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/coal-mining-football-and-other-former-soviet-spheres-of-influence/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/coal-mining-football-and-other-former-soviet-spheres-of-influence/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:22:36 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=338 Yulia Tymoshenko's Dec 23 visit to perennially troubled Zasyadko mine in eastern Donetsk, where 101 coal miners died in a Nov 18 explosion. Her comments stirred memories of past mining disasters and of the wheelchairs that regularly circled the Shakhtar Donetsk football ground (see also 26 Dec 04.) (Dec 28)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/coal-mining-football-and-other-former-soviet-spheres-of-influence/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/11/links-for-2006-11-18/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/11/links-for-2006-11-18/#comments Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:27:54 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=191 Ferenc Puskás at 79; Hugo Sánchez's first statements as coach of Mexico; Ligo Revelacion in Decatur, Alabama; a grumpy columnist in Israel; and another study on sectarianism in Scottish football.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2006/11/links-for-2006-11-18/feed/ 2