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/2008/10/soccer-mom-sarah-palin-seeks-portfolio/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/soccer-mom-sarah-palin-seeks-portfolio/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:09:56 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=812 Oct 19 | Soccer moms have existed in North America at least since mixed-gender indigenous football games were documented early in the 17th century. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin (left) has killed rabbits and bagged salmon but says we must look to the soccer sidelines to find the real America.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/soccer-mom-sarah-palin-seeks-portfolio/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:58:39 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=728 Oct 4 | Ron Newman built the U.S. game in literal terms, calling on carpentry skills to construct goalposts out of discarded building materials. In Atlanta in 1967, he jumped off a Memorial Day float and kicked a ball to youngsters.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/islands-americas-internationalists-have-a-vague-idea-of-cuban-life/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/islands-americas-internationalists-have-a-vague-idea-of-cuban-life/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:00:33 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=585 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/islands-americas-internationalists-have-a-vague-idea-of-cuban-life/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/07/from-amish-heartland-fc-indiana-gives-womens-soccer-multicultural-vision/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/07/from-amish-heartland-fc-indiana-gives-womens-soccer-multicultural-vision/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:43:13 +0000 Timothy Grainey http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=456 Lafayette, Indiana, Jul 18 | FC Indiana in four years has become a force in women’s club soccer in the United States, winning two Women’s Premier Soccer League titles and one U.S. Open Cup. But despite origins within a Midwest Amish agricultural enclave, its influence extends worldwide.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/07/from-amish-heartland-fc-indiana-gives-womens-soccer-multicultural-vision/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:31:53 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=454 Sports Illustrated writer Gary Smith again has applied his odd epistemology to soccer (“Alive and Kicking," Jun 23). In 8,000 words, he writes passionately in his familiar mode of author-vacated all-knowing about the Fugees of Clarkston, Georgia—ground already well plowed by Warren St. John of the New York Times (see 25 Jan 07). (Jun 19)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/06/media-whats-that-echo-gary-smith-on-the-fugees/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/05/a-big-day-for-haiti-a-big-day-for-little-haitians/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/05/a-big-day-for-haiti-a-big-day-for-little-haitians/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:20:13 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=449 Miami | Haiti past, present and future came together early in May on an urban oasis in Little Haiti. After 10 years of negotiation and bureaucratic delay, an all too rare inner-city, publicly funded, full-size soccer pitch opened on one-time industrial ground north of downtown. With multimedia and podcast.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/05/a-big-day-for-haiti-a-big-day-for-little-haitians/feed/ 26:29 The multimedia presentation includes interviews with Emmanuel Sanon Jr.mdash;after whose father the park is namedmdash;Miami immigration attorney Andre Pierre and social activist and Lrsquo;Athleacute;tique drsquo;Haiti ... The multimedia presentation includes interviews with Emmanuel Sanon Jr.mdash;after whose father the park is namedmdash;Miami immigration attorney Andre Pierre and social activist and Lrsquo;Athleacute;tique drsquo;Haiti president Robert Duval. One of Duval's teams from Citeacute; Soleil in Port-au-Prince provided opposition in a series of opening-day friendly matches. (6:55) Go to full-size version raquo; Miami #124; Haiti past, present and future came together earlier this month on an urban oasis in La Petite Haiti. After 10 years of negotiation and bureaucratic delay, an all too rare inner-city, publicly funded, full-size soccer pitch opened May 3 on one-time industrial ground north of downtown. In the end, consecration of the park became an act of remembrance to Emmanuel "Manno" Sanon, referred to as an "objet d'art du football haitien" in obituaries following his death in February, at 56, from pancreatic cancer. Sanon's home was in Conway, Florida, outside Orlando, but he had maintained contacts in Miami as well as his broader significance within Haitian culture. His goal against Italy in Haiti's first and only World Cup finals appearance in 1974 proved, at some level, Haiti's existence to the world. Some grumbled that the Sanon Soccer Park had cost too much, took too long to be realized and lacked the necessary amenities, but on opening day it looked like paradise. One would be hard pressed to find such an unbroken greenscapemdash;consisting of a regulation FIFA field and practice area along with airy, covered grandstandmdash;elsewhere in urban America (see also Feb 9). The atmosphere took on aspects of Carnival with roving bands of konegrave; (trumpet) players and revellers. Pointing to one group that bounced and drummed during a series of three friendly matches, local businessman Edward Leon said, "This is what it is like in Haiti," referring to the rara festival or Haitian Mardi Gras, the time to acknowledge the return of life. In front of the stadium, kids splashed in a water park surrounded by palm trees; water sheeted from the top of what looked like a giant mushroom. Vendors sold goat's-meat pies and banaan peze (pressed plantains), accessorized by sugary fruit drinks. A steady kreyograve;l patter burst from the announcer's boothmdash;comments on the play and sales pitches for currency-transfer shops and bargains on international dialing rates. Goat's-meat pie with rice adds savor to a display of futebol arte, the preferred Haitian expression of the game. Given its longtime connection with the Haitian diasporamdash;intellectuals, exiled by Franccedil;ois Duvalier, started arriving in Miami and South Florida in the 1950smdash;Little Haiti, while boasting its own institutions and creative force, has retained some of the factionalism in Haitian society. "There is division here, too," says Marleine Bastien, executive director of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (Haitian Women of Miami). But, echoing the comments of other Miami-based Haitians, Bastien mentions soccer's rallying power and its capacity to give life a communal purpose. "The only time Lavalas, Convergence and other factions come together is for soccer. Everyone is there. When there is a game, people wave the Haitian flag." According to Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center, some 400,000 Haitians and Haitian Americans live in the Miami-Dade region, having arrived in increasingly impoverished and desperate waves beginning in the 1970s. A soccer park fills a gap in the slow reconstitution of a neighborhood that many Haitians, once established, seek to leave. Haitians have made their mark locally in creating radio stations and newspapers and in winning political office, but the centrality of football to Haitian life could not find a steady outlet. Miami attorney Andre Pierre, who emigrated from Haiti in 1983, opened his own firm to emphasize immigration law and has represented several hundred asylum seekers. He played in the ... Caribbean,,Grassroots,amp;,Youth,,Podcast,,Stadia,amp;,Supporters,,Teaching,Resources,,USA The Global Game no No http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:04:15 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=437 Oneida Football Club of Boston, honored with an obelisk in Boston Common as "the first organized football club in the United States." While Oneida played one of the football codes—perhaps a soccer-rugby hybrid—beginning in 1862, photographic evidence offered by a descendant of a Paterson FC captain suggests that the New Jersey side, formed in 1880, staked claim early to playing by the Football Association rules established in London in 1863 (see also Mar 30). (Apr 16)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:43:16 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=420 Newark, New Jersey, Mar 30 | At the start of its 13th season, MLS lacks a nuanced appreciation for history. But the sense of American soccer as a game among immigrant enclaves has been preserved, with regional focus, at Sport Clube Português and within a northeastern amateur league featuring divisions along ethnic lines (see New York Times coverage).]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/feed/ 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/