Je trouve le défi avec l’immigration dans le foot très intéressant. Actuellement, tout de l’Europe lutte contre le racisme, mais en plus je suis absorbé par les grands sentiments du nationalisme radical. C’est un phénomène en Europe où tous les citoyens des pays européennes veulent que les joueurs dans leurs ligues viennent de leurs pays.… Read More »
Suivant les quarante jours de deuils après les débandades létales du Caire tuant autours de 30 spectateurs, les autorités Égyptiennes ont décidées d’autoriser la continuation des matches, mais en stades privés et fermés aux supporteurs. Les émeutes du 8 Février auparavant du match long attendu entre Zamalek et ENPPI dans la Coup Egyptiennes au Stade Défense… Read More »
Autre jour, autre incidence de racisme en foot. Jour par jour nous voyons incidents comme laquelle en haut. Les fans de Chelsea ont empêché un homme noir d’entrer en Metro après de match entre Chelsea et PSG dans le ligue des championnats. Je supporte Chelsea, et pour moi, regardant cette video et très décevant. Mais… Read More »
Mucho se ha dicho de la decisión de la FIFA de dar la sede del Mundial 2022 a Catar, un pais con pésimo record de derechos humanos, un clima que no es favorable para una competencia profesional, y una candidatura de muy alto riesgo dado que en este momento casi nada de la infraestructura necesaria… Read More »
The 20th century was a wicked roller coaster ride for Germany. Two World Wars, each spawned by high levels of nationalism, both resulted in German defeat. In the course of less than fifty years, Germany’s territory, economy, and politics were reduced to rubble, rebuilt, and then subsequently destroyed multiple times. Post World War II, the… Read More »
* This article is cross-posted with the blog ¿Opio del pueblo? During the Mexico-Trinidad/Tobago Gold Cup quarterfinal the other night, I was part of an engaging twitter discussion about racism in CONCACAF soccer that centered around these posts: It has struck me how much blatant racism you see around #GoldCup chat sites/twitter directed at Caribbean… Read More »
This Post was originally published at Football is a Country. My thanks to them for permission to cross-post. The French national anthem, La Marseillaise, is, if you think about it, a pretty nasty song. It dreams, in one of its more memorable verses, that the “blood of the impure” will “irrigate our fields.” It’s a… Read More »
(Article cross-posted from “Muslim Feminisms” forum at The Feminist Wire) Members of the Iranian National Women’s Football team (Source: FIFPro) On Friday, July 6, the French Football Federation announced that it would ban the wearing of hijab during all organized competitions held in France. The Federation declared that in doing so it was fulfilling… Read More »
During international football competitions like the European Cup, eleven players briefly become their country, for a time, on the pitch. A nation is a difficult thing to grasp: unpalpable, mythic, flighty. Historians might labor away to define the precise contours of a country’s culture and institutions, and even sometimes attempt to delineate its soul, while… Read More »
In 1996, after France narrowly defeating Bulgaria to move on from the group stages of the European Cup competition, the French defender Marcel Desailly made a striking accusation during a press conference. Hristo Stoichkov, the star Bulgarian striker, had racially abused him during the game. “Hey Desailly, do you know that little kids are dying… Read More »
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