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May 3, 2018
Wage Inequality in Football
Introduction Wage Inequality in Society In 2017, for every dollar a man earned, a woman was paid 82 cents (Farber, 2017). While this difference has seen significant improvements, from the 54 cents to every dollar prior to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the 18-cent deficit is not insignificant when looking at equal pay for… Read More »
April 28, 2018
Reviewing the 2018 Champions League Semifinals
Now that we’re coming to the end of the year, the Champions league gets closer to the final in Kiev between the two greatest teams of Europe this year. So who are our contenders? In the red corner, we have Liverpool and Roma. Both teams have showcased their attacking prowess and defensive shortcomings throughout… Read More »
April 24, 2018
La place du football féminin dans la presse française
Comme je l’ai déjà écrit, parmi tous les thèmes abordés ce semestre, celui du football féminin est l’un de ceux qui ont le plus éveillé ma curiosité. En concluant mon blog post précédent (réponse a Pourquoi “Under the Lights and in the Dark” est le titre parfait sur la place occupée par le football féminin… Read More »
April 19, 2018
Roma v. Shaktar Donetsk
When I first bought my ticket for the Roma v. Shakhtar game I didn’t think much of it. I was already going to Rome with a few friends and the one of us that knew anything about soccer, Jake, practically begged us to go so I thought, “Why not…I don’t like sports much but I… Read More »
April 17, 2018
El futuro de GLT y VARS
Con el mundial en Rusia acercándose cada día, aficionados, entrenadores y jugadores de todos los rincones del mundo están mirando las adiciones más nuevas y más controversiales al campo de fútbol: GLT y VARS. ¿Qué son, exactamente? GLT, o sistema de detección automática de goles, es más fácil entender. El sistema consiste en una serie… Read More »
April 16, 2018
“Welcome to Russia”: Gwendolyn Oxenham
In the chapter “Welcome to Russia” from Gwendolyn Oxenham’s book Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer, she reinforces soccer’s ability to lift a player and their family out of the depth of depravity, a narrative our class has explored throughout the semester. Omolyn Davis, a Jamaica and Dani Foxhoven’s… Read More »
Quote from Gwendolyn Oxenham’s Book
In the chapter “Welcome to Russia” from Gwendolyn Oxenham’s book Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer, she reinforces soccer’s ability to lift a player and their family out of the depth of depravity, a narrative our class has explored throughout the semester. Omolyn Davis, a Jamaica and Dani Foxhoven’s… Read More »
Hublot and the referee board.
Something’s up. So. Every so often in soccer, one of the teams will sub out a player. (It’s a pretty common occurrence, I’m sure you’ve seen it before.) The incoming player and an accompanying referee walk out to the middle of field. That referee has this, kind of pointless, job of holding up a display… Read More »
April 14, 2018
The dual lives of women’s soccer stars
It’s 2009, I am in 7th grade, at Phillips Middle School in Chapel Hill, NC. We have a student teacher in our social studies class, a UNC student finishing up her Education major. Her name is Heather O’Reilly, you may have heard of her? Of course we were all excited to have her as a… Read More »
April 13, 2018
Corruption in FIFA: Where we Stand Today
In the summer of 2015, US authorities indicted 14 powerful constituents associated withe the FIFA governing body, including two FIFA vice presidents and five corporate executives. The indictments were issued for 47 different counts of criminality, including wire fraud, racketeering conspiracy, money laundering, and corruption. The 14 individuals in question were arrested at a luxury… Read More »
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