Taking a turn ‘in the woods,’ confronting the goalkeeper’s choice
Goalkeepers—as 20th-century existentialists knew—provide football’s paradigm for action in the face of uncertainty.
Goalkeepers—as 20th-century existentialists knew—provide football’s paradigm for action in the face of uncertainty.
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.”
The Clarkston Community Center, Soccer in the Streets, the Decatur-DeKalb YMCA and the International Community School collaborated on an MLK Day soccer tournament on 19 Jan 09. The sport helps bring together displaced children from Angola, Burma, Burundi, Kurdistan, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and elsewhere.
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