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January 25, 2019

Persiguiendo el juego: Pelada, Galeano y la magia del fútbol

Pelada en Brasil, picado en Argentina, pachanga en España; son algunas de las palabras usadas para nombrar los partidos espontáneos e informales que se juegan en calles, parques o barrios fuera de los grandes estadios y del espectáculo. Pelada es un documental que sigue a dos exjugadores de soccer estadounidenses, Gwendolyn Oxenham y Luke Boughen,… Read More »
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Published on January 25, 2019 16:38

January 22, 2019

Galeano “Le football, ombre et lumière”

Le Football, ombre et lumière d’Eduardo Galeano, est l’un des livres les plus encensés par la critique jamais écrits sur le football. La forme et le contenu sont particulièrement uniques : plutôt que de proposer aux lecteurs une suite de noms, de chiffres et de dates, Galeano leur offre 150 vignettes qui abordent des aspects différents… Read More »
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Published on January 22, 2019 12:31

Sachin Nakrani: “Paul Pogba’s ‘pace and power’ stresses need for rethink over BAME coverage”

In an insightful opinion piece published in yesterday’s Guardian, sports writer Sachin Nakrani criticizes the tendency to write of black soccer/football players in a way that emphasizes these players’ brute strength over their technique. This kind of coverage, Nakrani argues, “feeds into narrative that follows black athletes around, namely that their primary attributes are physical rather… Read More »
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Published on January 22, 2019 10:47

January 19, 2019

Las ventanas sobre el fútbol de Eduardo Galeano

El fútbol a sol y sombra (1995) es considerado hoy uno de los mejores libros sobre fútbol y, dicen por ahí, que es una lectura obligada para todo aquel que se considere futbolero. Su autor, Eduardo Galeano (Montevideo, 1940 – 2015), uno de los grandes escritores de América Latina, era un gran hincha del fútbol.… Read More »
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Published on January 19, 2019 20:14

Las ventanas sobre fútbol de Eduardo Galeano

El fútbol a sol y sombra (1995) es considerado hoy uno de los mejores libros sobre fútbol y, dicen por ahí, que es una lectura obligada para todo aquel que se considere futbolero. Su autor, Eduardo Galeano (Montevideo, 1940 – 2015), uno de los grandes escritores de América Latina, era un gran hincha del fútbol.… Read More »
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Published on January 19, 2019 20:14

Reading Galeano

Eduardo Galeano’s Soccer in Sun and Shadow is one of the most lauded books written about soccer to this day. Rather than providing a standard ‘nuts and bolts’ account of the game, forcing the reader to sift through countless names, dates and statistics, Galeano instead provides his readers with 150 short sketches about the game.… Read More »
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Published on January 19, 2019 07:07

January 11, 2019

El fútbol como ritual y un experimento cinematográfico con Zidane en la cancha

Para esta semana discutiremos la idea del fútbol como ritual, propuesta por el antropólogo francés Christian Bromberger, en dialogo con la película Zidane, un retrato del siglo XXI. Bormberger ha estudiado durante años los partidos de fútbol y el comportamiento de sus fans. En su libro en francés, Le match de football, el antropólogo se… Read More »
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Published on January 11, 2019 18:13

Le football comme rituel, Zidane et le cinéma expérimental

Dans son livre Le Match de football paru en 1995, l’anthropologue français Christian Bromberger analyse les passions soulevées par le football, plus particulièrement dans les villes de Marseille, Turin et Naples. Il résume les conclusions de son étude dans un article en anglais, “Football as World-View and as Ritual.” Dans ce texte, il décrit le football… Read More »
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Published on January 11, 2019 11:02

January 10, 2019

Soccer as Ritual, and Being on the Pitch with Zidane

The French anthropologist Christian Bromberger has studied and written about football games as a kind of ritual that provides an “inexhaustible terrain of interpretation” for those who participate and watch. In his French-language book “Le match de football,” he studied how crowds experienced and interpreted games in the European football heartlands of Marseille, Milan, and… Read More »
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Published on January 10, 2019 08:01

May 5, 2018

Stephanie Labbé Banned from Men’s Professional League

Stephanie Labbé, Canada’s starting goalkeeper is trying her luck playing on a men’s team. The 31-year-old from Alberta stepped away from her NWSL club the Washington Spirit midway through the 2017 season after struggling with mental health. After struggling to find a solution in the NWSL through trades, Labbé looked to stay closer to home… Read More »
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Published on May 05, 2018 14:15

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