The Global Game: Writers on Soccer is scheduled for November release—the product of some three years of compiling, winnowing and permissions seeking by myself and editors Thom Satterlee and Alon Raab, along with strong support and belief from the University of Nebraska Press in Lincoln and heroic efforts from a network of translators, working in Spanish, French, Italian, Danish, Portuguese and Slovenian. (Apr 24)
“[O]fficial history ignores soccer,” Eduardo Galeano has written, but Jacques Barzun does not respond completely, judging by the sports snippets in his cultural tome, From Dawn to Decadence: Five Hundred Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present.
Anthropologist Beatriz Vélez on the intensely masculine world of Colombian fútbol and how it provokes “much suffering for women who play football.”
Writes Eduardo Galeano of the new collection from
University of Nebraska Press, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer, "At the end, soccer believers will confirm ... that they have never been alone. And pagans will be converted." Go to website »
