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We announce a new website to accompany the anthology, released Nov 1, from University of Nebraska Press. (See below for details on ordering.) So far, we include features on the soccer mom - in the odd guise of unsuccessful Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin - as well as podcast interviews with Bridget Carson ("Soccer Fields, Fort M issoula"), William Heyen ("Parity"), Elísabet Jökulsdottír of Iceland ("Communicate, Lads"), Mark Nuttall of Alberta ("Arsarnerit: Inuit and the Heavenly Game of Football"), David Starkey ("The Soccer Moms - 1996") and Uroš Zupan of Slovenia ("Beauty Is Nothing but the Beginning of a Terror We Can Hardly Bear"). All interviews available for free download. See also comment from translator and co-editor Thom Satterlee on the poem by Klaus Rifbjerg of Denmark ("The Orb"), as well as a book excerpt and bibliography.
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From 'invisible town,' Marta gains life in visible ink
A package of stories on Brazilian sensation Marta Vieira da Silva and the biography by Argentine journalist Diego Graciano, Você é mulher, Marta! (You Are a Woman, Marta!). We review the b ook, 200 copies of which were self-published in Portuguese, and translate the author's prologue and a preface by Iraci Nogueira. Finally, we discuss the barriers to publishing in Brazil that have prevented Marta's tale from reaching a broader audience: "[I]t’s her right to earn profits in any business opportunity that arises. Why forfeit them?" asks Marta's agent, Fabiano Farah.
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More Lusophone-accented football
Portugal has stood by the controversial strategy it started in 2004 of tapping diaspora players for its national women’s teams, even expanding the practice to age-level squads through active scouting and recruiting in Canada and the United States, writes Timothy Grainey. To Portuguese coaches and football authorities, these North American imports are "new Portuguese." ... At the five-a-side Paralympic football final in Beijing in September, correspondent Veronique Dragonet writes that low-grade hooligan behavior intrudes even at an event featuring the sight-impaired. When one spectator objects to another holding cardboard over his head, "open-handed fisticuffs" result. "Violence plagues soccer stands in lots of places I guess," Dragonet says.
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Our article on the 1968 NASL champion Atlanta Chiefs appears in the Dec 08 edition of When Saturday Comes (London), at kiosks now. ... An article on Sarah Palin and the soccer moms is published in So Foot (Paris) (no. 60), a special issue on American soccer.

Heard on the terraces

"If you took a map of America where [Barack] Obama is strongest and laid it over a map of where soccer has its biggest appeal, you'd see an incredible overlap. The blue states on both coasts are very soccer-friendly as well as huge areas of support for Obama, whereas the center of the country is full of people who are the enemies of soccer and Obama - white, 50-and-over guys who listen to talk radio and only care about football or basketball." (Joe Roth, quoted in Patrick Goldstein, "Would Obama's Election Make Soccer a Major League Sport?" The Big Picture [Los Angeles Times], Oct 31).

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The Global Game | Writers on Soccer
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The writings gathered in this volume - available both in North America and the UK - reflect the univers al and infinitely varied ways in which soccer connects with human experience. Poetry and prose from Ted Hughes, Charles Simic, Eduardo Galeano, Günter Grass, Giovanna Pollarolo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Elvis Costello - to name but a few - take us to a dizzying array of cultures and climes. From a patch of ground in Missoula, Montana, to a clearing in a Kosovo forest, from the stadiums of Burma and Iran to the northern lights over Greenland to remotest Sierra Leone, these writers show us soccer's stars and fans, politics and rituals, as well as the game's power to encourage resistance, inspire faith, and build community.

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