In places without a name, ‘Pelada’ films the football we never knew
Pelada debuts at the South by Southwest Film Festival as the ultimate expression of football’s capacity for communion.
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Mar 16, 2010 | 2 comments
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Auschwitz and the perversion of football
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we interview William Heyen about his poem “Parity,” concerning the 1944 football match at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Beside crematoriums, Nazis engineered the ultimate perversion of sport.
Jan 28, 2010 | 0 comments
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In disaster, soccer infrastructure becomes Haitian lifeline
Football grounds around the world have a tradition of offering refuge from disasters. Stadiums and soccer itself offer shelter and solace in Haiti following the devastating earthquake Jan 12.
Ahead of 2012, Ukraine reclaims iconographic and football treasures
With Orthodox nativity celebrations upon us, we wonder if Ukrainian traditions of religious iconography and football offer creative ideas for recovering lost history and making one nation.
Peruvian women, in ‘fulbito Andino,’ find light in the darkness
A six-team fulbito tournament in Lima in December concluded a nationwide competition involving more than 40,000 indigenous Andean women, who don colorful skirts(polleras) and play on weekends as respite from hard labors at home and in the fields.
Jan 05, 2010 | 0 comments
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Remembering Eudy, KwaThema’s brightest, killed on its darkest night
Eudy Simelane, former midfielder for the senior South African women’s national team, Banyana Banyana, shaped her world around football before her murder in Apr 08.
Aug 30, 2009 | 10 comments
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No último minuto (‘In the last minute’)
We publish a translation of a 1978 short story by Brazilian author 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.”
Feb 25, 2009 | 2 comments
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Cinema | A soccer player’s escape from Argentina … into philosophy
Claudio Tamburrini—philosophy professor and former goalkeeper—speaks about his Mar 1978 decision to “opt for life” and escape an Argentine prison. With podcast »
Aug 27, 2008 | 0 comments
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Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has campaigned to relocate the remains of goalkeeper-cum-existentialist Albert Camus from their resting place in Lourmarin. 
