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/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/2009/07/ukraine-where-the-cossacks-held-sway-womens-football-adds-international-spice/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/07/ukraine-where-the-cossacks-held-sway-womens-football-adds-international-spice/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:37:51 +0000 Timothy Grainey http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2276 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/07/ukraine-where-the-cossacks-held-sway-womens-football-adds-international-spice/feed/ 1 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/2005/09/womens-football-5624-miles-7%c2%a0goals-2%c2%a0portlands-and-1%c2%a0mole-us-v-ukraine/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2005/09/womens-football-5624-miles-7%c2%a0goals-2%c2%a0portlands-and-1%c2%a0mole-us-v-ukraine/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:16:50 +0000 Alon Raab http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=551 Portland, Oregon | U.S. Soccer Federation officials in 2005 improvised to fill out a slate of impromptu summer friendlies. One of those was a game against Ukraine, assisted on its visit by a West Coast–based expatriate known as "the mole."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2005/09/womens-football-5624-miles-7%c2%a0goals-2%c2%a0portlands-and-1%c2%a0mole-us-v-ukraine/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2004/12/in-the-end-they-opted-for-christmas-orange/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2004/12/in-the-end-they-opted-for-christmas-orange/#comments Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:25:48 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=337 Kiev, Ukraine, Dec 28 | Football has been part of the upheavals contested in an election following the "Orange Revolution" of Nov 04.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2004/12/in-the-end-they-opted-for-christmas-orange/feed/ 2