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/2010/06/from-johannesburg-lesbian-footballers-chosen-to-play-choosing-to-live/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/06/from-johannesburg-lesbian-footballers-chosen-to-play-choosing-to-live/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:54:15 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2640 Life in the FIFA-free zone | Chosen Few Lesbian Soccer Club in its witness to the healing powers of eros and sport outdoes FIFA in promoting football's influence on self and society.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/06/from-johannesburg-lesbian-footballers-chosen-to-play-choosing-to-live/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/notes-from-babel-to-win-a-world-cup-you-must-be-at-your-most-virtuous/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/notes-from-babel-to-win-a-world-cup-you-must-be-at-your-most-virtuous/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 02:17:40 +0000 Sean Smith http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3209 Sean Smith before the World Cup.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/notes-from-babel-to-win-a-world-cup-you-must-be-at-your-most-virtuous/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/03/on-streets-without-a-name-pelada-films-the-football-we-never-knew/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/03/on-streets-without-a-name-pelada-films-the-football-we-never-knew/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:53:30 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3112 Pelada debuts at the South by Southwest Film Festival as the ultimate expression of football's capacity for communion.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/03/on-streets-without-a-name-pelada-films-the-football-we-never-knew/feed/ 10 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/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/2009/02/translations-no-ultimo-minuto-%e2%80%98in-the-last-minute%e2%80%99/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/02/translations-no-ultimo-minuto-%e2%80%98in-the-last-minute%e2%80%99/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:38:19 +0000 Sérgio Sant'Anna http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1672 Sérgio Sant'Anna in which a goalkeeper's anxiety and his separation from fellows figure large: "The stadium explodes and I feel my own head bursting apart. ... It’s like everything is very far away, without any relation to me."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/02/translations-no-ultimo-minuto-%e2%80%98in-the-last-minute%e2%80%99/feed/ 2 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/08/a-soccer-players-escape-from-argentina%c2%a0-into-philosophy/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/08/a-soccer-players-escape-from-argentina%c2%a0-into-philosophy/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:41:36 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=334 Claudio Tamburrini—philosophy professor and former goalkeeper—speaks about his Mar 1978 decision to "opt for life" and escape an Argentine prison. With podcast »]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/08/a-soccer-players-escape-from-argentina%c2%a0-into-philosophy/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/2008/05/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, a rare inner-city, full-sized pitch opened on what was 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/ 2 0:26:29 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, a rare inner-city, full-sized pitch opened on what was industrial ground north of downtow[...] 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, a rare inner-city, full-sized pitch opened on what was industrial ground north of downtown. With multimedia and podcast » Caribbean, Grassroots, Podcast, USA admin@theglobalgame.com no no