In Chicago midfields, Hemon discovers transcendental soccer nation
For Aleksandar Hemon, the Bosnian-born writer, lack of soccer means spiritual death. With interview »
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For Aleksandar Hemon, the Bosnian-born writer, lack of soccer means spiritual death. With interview »
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 »
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 »To admire a footballer is to admire something very close to pure poetry or abstract painting. It is to admire form for form’s sake, without any rationally identifiable content.
— Mario Vargas Llosa, El País, 1982