February 2013
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There is reason to party. Almost two decades of waiting for Nigeria is over. One...
– Firdose Moonda, Sunday, brilliant Sunday
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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
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While Moroccans are disappointed by many political decisions and dissatisfied...
– Omar Bihmidine
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January 2013
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The national team means a lot to this country. I think that today - and I choose...
– Didier Drogba
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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
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December 2012
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Panathinaikos (PAO to its friends, vasles— from Vaseline— to its...
– Neni Panourgia, Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography
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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
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The transnational cultural ties connecting migrants and their places of origin...
– Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Luz Marina Díaz, Transnational migration: a view from Colombia
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In Argentina, football is divided along political lines: if you are a Boca...
– Leslie Ray, Argentina’s Left-Wingers
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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
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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
November 2012
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October 2012
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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
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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
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