Upfront/Onside: Dispatches from The 2015 Women’s World Cup

By | July 27, 2015

I had the opportunity to help set up and edit and also contribute to a blog called “Upfront/Onside” set up at Sports Illustrated to cover the Women’s World Cup this summer in Canada. The blog brought together authors who had earlier gathered at the “Futures of Women’s Soccer” conference here at Duke in April.

Here are links to my pieces:

On France’s Jessica Houara and the issue of the Hijab in Women’s Football (co-authored with Shireen Ahmed)

On the Turf Controversy

A First-Person Account of the France-Germany Quarter-Final

A First-Person Account of the USA-Germany Semi-Final (co-authored with Brenda Elsey)

Category: 2015 Women's World Cup Women's Soccer

About Laurent Dubois

I am Professor of Romance Studies and History and the Director of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at Duke University. I founded the Soccer Politics blog in 2009 as part of a course on "World Cup and World Politics" taught at Duke University. I'm currently teaching the course under the title "Soccer Politics" here at Duke. My books include Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (University of California Press, 2010) and The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (Basic Books, 2018)

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