Gary Andrews asks if a supporters’ initiative at Arsenal to pool money and purchase shares in the club will meet its goal of increasing the voice of the fans at the Emirates.
Andrew Guest considers flopping, pain and perception: does it really hurt, Arjen?
Our regular book reviewer Alex Usher delves into football in Israel with Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler’s Goals for Galilee: The Triumphs and Traumas of the Sons of Sakhnin, Israel’s Arab Football Club and Tamir Sorek’s Arab Soccer in a Jewish State.
The United States is unique in its reliance on colleges for developing players — but this is changing, and fast. What is the future for American college soccer?
Despite much progress in Brazilian women’s soccer, their performance in international youth competitions and their lack of a domestic league is impeding the production of the next Marta.
Alex Usher dissects a new book by Laurent Dubois that attempts to tie together the history of colonial and post-colonial France with its national soccer team’s success.
Andrew Guest is back from South Africa, and explains how his World Cup trip ended in a personal fandom apotheosis.
National team player, coach for his country’s only major international triumph, co-founder of a FIFA confederation, and the man who set in motion the chain of events that led to South Africa becoming the first African nation to host the World Cup: we look at the late Ethiopian visionary Ydnekatchew Tessema.
Over the course of the 2010 World Cup, we brought you the front page of a newspaper somewhere around the world almost every day, global glimpses at the shared madness of the World Cup. Today we tell that story, one day at a time.
The World Cup heads from well-organised South Africa to a country with a backwards and corrupt football federation: Ricardo Teixeira’s Brazil.
We take a look at the newspaper front pages in Spain today, and find that the idea national support for their team at the World Cup is eclipsing the issue of Catalonia’s national identity to be problematic.
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