Laurent Dubois's Blog, page 57

Les Académies de Football

Il y a des dizaines d’académies de football pour les aspirants joueurs de football professionnel. Les meilleures joueurs de football du monde sont formés dans ces académies de football; par exemple, David Beckham, Gareth Bale, Franz Beckenbauer, Andres Iniesta, Adam Lallana, Sep Maier, Leonel Messi, Nani, Neymar Jr., Wesley Sneijder, Theo Walcott, Xavi, et des… Read More »

China’s Winter Spending Spree

By Cali Nelson The Chinese Super League, the top league in China, has gained considerable international attention over the last few months due to a spectacular spending spree during China’s winter transfer period, which ran from January 1st to February 26th.  During this period, Chinese clubs spent a record $365 million. To put that in… Read More »

El milagro del Leicester City

En estas semanas, discutiremos la dinámica y a veces conflictiva relación entre la economía y el fútbol entendido como un negocio con características muy especiales, tal como lo muestra David Goldblatt en su libro The Game of Our Lives. En su artículo para BBC Mundo, Raúl Fain Binda intenta explicar cómo un equipo con un presupuesto muchísimo… Read More »

Steven Gerrard and Aging Veterans effect on the MLS

Many would agree soccer’s popularity in America has increased slowly but surely over the last decade mainly due to the influx of aging overseas players seeking to broaden the sports brand in the globe’s largest sports market. Many of these aging stars come to America for large transfer fees hoping to show the American fan… Read More »

Memories of Games

A brief disclaimer. This is a work of memory, it is my best recollections of two particular games I had the good fortune to attend. Therefore I cannot guarantee the full accuracy of this due to the nature of memory. It is simply my own remembrances of these games as best I can. The first… Read More »

GOL INIESTA SUDÁFICA 2010

En este post hablaré del gol de Andrés Iniesta en la final de la Copa del Mundo 2010 celebrada en Sudáfrica. El gol que hizo campeona a España por primera vez en su historia. España llegaba a ese mundial como una de las favoritas tras haber ganado la Eurocopa de 2008. Fue un torneo muy… Read More »

How Instant Replay Can Improve Soccer

Do the officials need to get better, or should more technology be introduced to the sport of soccer? In today’s day and age, officials of any sport have been heavily scrutinized thanks to cameras that record every angle of every incident in a particular match. This can cause a slow motion replay to either prove… Read More »

February 26th, 2016

      Friday will mark one of the most historical days in football history. While immorality surrounds FIFA following the corruption charges, there will be an election held to replace Sepp Blatter as president of this important organization.   FIFA stands for The Federation Internationale de Football Association. It was founded in France on… Read More »

Players and Popstars

To preface this blog post, I understand very little of soccer but I do keep up with Kardashians. Howevers the parallels between the transfer market in soccer and the current plight of Kesha have intrigued me to explore further.   So what is going on with Kesha? Kesha Rose Sebert, previously known to the world as… Read More »

Park Chu-young vs Japan: 2012 London Olympics

Park Chu-young vs Japan: 2012 London Olympics It was August 10th of 2012 London, when Chu-young Park, the Arsenal FC forward (at the time) scored this amazing solo goal against Japan. It was the game after Korea lost to Brazil in the semi-finals and Bronze medal was on the line.  It was minute 37 of… Read More »