Where Cossacks held sway, women’s football adds international spice
Even women’s football in Ukraine has shown effects of globalization, with players from South Africa, Spain, Mexico and Australia joining one club in 2008.
Soccer as a second language
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Links- WC2010 » In Nelspruit, soccer lasts 6 hours, dirty puddle water for a lifetime (NYT)
- Cinema » Sacheri, writer of soccer stories, scores big with 'Secret' (LAT)
- Youth » 11-year-old goalie rallies from fluke spinal injury (Arizona Republic)
- Immigration » Mayan footballers, 'Montezuma’s Revenge' and the border fence (Brownsville Herald)
- Rules » Desire for 'human game' prevails over goal-line technology (AP)
- Pathos » Remembering Bob Kap, who brought soccer's approach angle to NFL (Dallas Morning News)
- England » Resurrected memories of Newton Heath color ManU protests (WSJ)
- Medicine » Unknown African plants fuel FIFA's WC2010 doping fears (AP)
- Nigeria » African bloggers' formula: take player's reported age, then add 10 (Observer)
Anthology
David Goldblatt calls The Global Game: Writers on Soccer "the first truly global survey of writing" on world football. Buy from Amazon »
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