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Running the gamut of genres
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer is scheduled for November release - the product of some three years of compiling, winnowing and permissions seeking by myself and editors Thom Satterlee and Alon Raab, along with strong support and belief from the University of Nebraska P ress in Lincoln and heroic efforts from a network of translators, working in Spanish, French, Italian, Danish, Portuguese and Slovenian.
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'On that Saturday ... there were soccer games in Pripyat'
Apr 29 | Twenty-two years ago, more than 1,000 buses commandeered from Kyiv rumbled northward toward Pripyat, Ukraine, to evacuate its 50,000 residents. By sunset on 27 Apr 1986, as Chernobyl reactor no. 4 burned, in one soldier's recollection, like a "beautiful blue fire," the town was empty. Left behind in the silence: a newly built football stadium sitting just to the north of a bright yellow Ferris wheel, a gift from Soviet authorities in commemoration of the upcoming May Day holiday.
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In 'Tiro libre,' walls of separation and misunderstanding
Apr 23 | A film conceived by Chileans about the aspirations of Palestine's national team has stirred a Chicago film festival - at least judging by an 11-page torrent of comments that debates which filmmaker deserves credit for the idea and which has the more credible connections to justice struggles (Ed M. Koziarski, "Social Justice, with Soccer," Chi cago Reader, Apr 3).
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Heard on the terraces

"He had internal torments. Previously, a word or glance was enough to assert his authority and explain what he wanted. Maybe it was typical of the Communist system, but now players have a greater freedom and an individuality. They become stars - like Beckham, what is Beckham? A pop star? - and so they do not put the team first" (Serhiy Polkhovskyi on Valeriy Lobanovskyi, quoted in Jonathan Wilson, Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football [London: Orion, 2006], 22).

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