Where Cossacks held sway, women’s football adds international spice
Even women’s football in Ukraine has shown effects of globalization, with players from South Africa, Spain, Mexico and Australia joining one club in 2008.
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Even women’s football in Ukraine has shown effects of globalization, with players from South Africa, Spain, Mexico and Australia joining one club in 2008.
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has campaigned to relocate the remains of goalkeeper-cum-existentialist Albert Camus from their resting place in Lourmarin. More about language & literature »In-process documentary on L'Athlétique d'Haiti, a youth soccer program and school in Port-au-Prince. After the Jan 12 earthquake, L'Athlétique has housed and fed families on its vast pitch. Go to article »
David Goldblatt calls The Global Game: Writers on Soccer "the first truly global survey of writing" on world football. Buy from Amazon »I don’t know, that question, why do I play football? It’s like why do you drink water?
— Raja Ghazali, as told to Nicole Matuska, “Players on a Masculine Stage,” The Global Game, 1 Oct 07