Terminal sadness | Stranded in time, Ghanaian plays football alone
Within Diosdado Macapagal International Airport six miles northwest of Angeles City in the Philippines, Ghanaian footballer Ayi Nii Aryee spends his days in legal limbo, lacking proper paperwork to...
View ArticleMind over rattan | In a meld of meditation and footvolley, the Burmese excel
Doha, Qatar, Jan 3 | In the family tree of football variants, cuju begat chinlone begat sepak raga begat sepak takraw. While this genealogy may be speculative—less formalized and less freighted than...
View ArticlePride of lions | Iraqi Asian Cup victory reminds a civilization what ‘normal’...
Baghdad, Aug 9 | A triumphant march through the Asian Cup tournament in July contributed to the resurgence of the Arabic phrase Assood al-Rafidain (Lions of Mesopotamia) to refer to the Iraqi national...
View ArticleIslands | A multihued archipelago, tuned to soccer’s harmonics
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...
View ArticleBooks | Murakami runs from soccer, to the distance
As a sidebar to the Feb 29 entry (“A multihued archipelago, tuned to soccer's harmonics”), part-time Hawai‘i resident Haruki Murakami reflects in a recent Spiegel Online interview on his sporting...
View ArticleChina | Football at all compass points on EastSouthWestNorth
James Montague has dissected the "footballing Venn diagram of ... political and social hatreds" that constituted the recent East Asian Championships in Chongqing, China (“Football? What Football? The...
View ArticleChina | For Brazil, silence is golden at 5-a-side Paralympic final
Beijing | Brazil's got a striker so good he can score blindfolded. Felipe Marcos's goal in the last minute broke a tie with China and gave Brazil Paralympic gold, 2–1, in five-a-side soccer, blind...
View ArticleObama schedules soccer summit in Soccer City
Barack Obama has put executive-branch muscle and street soccer cred behind the United States bid for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup finals. In Jun 2010 he will attend Opening Ceremonies at Soccer City in...
View ArticleThe ‘wrong-footed soccer maiden’ who bridged Manhattan, Beijing
Gay Talese, following the Women's World Cup final on 10 Jul 99, takes interest in the Chinese player who misses a penalty kick, Liu Ying. With podcast »
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