February 2013
13 posts
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Feb 12th
5 notes
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Feb 12th
2 notes
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“There is reason to party. Almost two decades of waiting for Nigeria is over. One...”
– Firdose Moonda, Sunday, brilliant Sunday
Feb 12th
1 note
9 tags
Feb 12th
10 tags
“But Ghana is more specific with regard to a somewhat broader mission. Foreign...”
– Andreas Mehler, Political discourse in football coverage: The cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Feb 12th
4 notes
11 tags
Feb 6th
5 notes
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Feb 6th
10 notes
11 tags
Feb 6th
4 notes
8 tags
“While Moroccans are disappointed by many political decisions and dissatisfied...”
– Omar Bihmidine
Feb 1st
9 tags
Feb 1st
10 tags
Feb 1st
1 note
12 tags
Feb 1st
7 notes
9 tags
Feb 1st
January 2013
6 posts
8 tags
“The national team means a lot to this country. I think that today - and I choose...”
– Didier Drogba
Jan 30th
10 notes
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Jan 30th
2 notes
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Jan 30th
3 notes
9 tags
Jan 30th
2 notes
7 tags
“Because of its popularity both in Africa and abroad, and because it represents...”
– Alexander Nelson, World Cup Fever, Nationalism, and the Ambiguous Alliance of Nation-States and Transnational Corporations 
Jan 30th
2 notes
9 tags
Jan 25th
1 note
December 2012
20 posts
10 tags
Dec 12th
3 notes
11 tags
“Panathinaikos (PAO to its friends, vasles— from Vaseline— to its...”
– Neni Panourgia, Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography
Dec 12th
1 note
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Dec 12th
1 note
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“The physical agility and unexpected “fakes” lauded by Brazilian commentators...”
– Bernardo Borges Buarque de Hollanda, In Praise of Improvisation in Brazilian Soccer: Modernism, Popular Music, and a Brasilidade of Sports
Dec 12th
12 tags
Dec 12th
1 note
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Dec 12th
1 note
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Dec 11th
9 tags
“The transnational cultural ties connecting migrants and their places of origin...”
– Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Luz Marina Díaz, Transnational migration: a view from Colombia
Dec 11th
12 tags
Dec 11th
9 tags
Dec 11th
1 note
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“In Argentina, football is divided along political lines: if you are a Boca...”
– Leslie Ray, Argentina’s Left-Wingers
Dec 11th
3 notes
15 tags
Dec 11th
7 notes
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Dec 11th
3 notes
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Dec 11th
10 notes
11 tags
Dec 11th
14 tags
Dec 11th
2 notes
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“Barcelona has historically been seen as the most popular team and ‘idol of...”
– Jacques Paul Ramírez Gallegos, Identities and local and regional rivalries in Ecuador: a view from football
Dec 11th
1 note
12 tags
Dec 4th
10 tags
Dec 4th
1 note
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“Throughout the twentieth century this football rivalry has been constantly...”
– Elga Castro-Ramos, Loyalties, Commodity and Fandom: Real Madrid, Barça and Athletic fans versus “La Furia Roja” during the World Cup
Dec 3rd
1 note
November 2012
2 posts
12 tags
Nov 1st
1 note
9 tags
Nov 1st
1 note
October 2012
5 posts
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“Club América is, to begin, cosmopolitan in a way that arch-rival Deportivo...”
– David Faflik, Fútbol América: Hemispheric Sport as Border Studies
Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
1 note
11 tags
Oct 28th
1 note
7 tags
“Another contested site of national identity occurs among immigrants, who often...”
– Miriam Schacht, Imagined Communities on the Pitch: Nationalism, Soccer, and the Question of Gender
Oct 8th
1 note
11 tags
Oct 3rd