Honolulu, Feb 29 | Gamba Osaka’s 6–1 victory over Houston Dynamo in the Pan-Pacific Soccer Championships final added another jot to the history of the Japanese on the Hawaiian Islands—a history that spans three centuries and that has helped create a multicultural population well-suited to building soccer from the grassroots.
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 »
