Ce Janvier FIFA a finalement réprimandé le Mexique avec l’Argentine, le Chili, le Pérou, et l’Uruguay pour utiliser des chants homophobes. Les pays ont dû payer 20,000 francs suisses (70,000 pour le Chili). L’amende était une surprise pour la fédération mexicaine, qui était investigué par FIFA pendant le Mondial 2014 pour le même délit. Il… Read More »
To preface this blog post, I understand very little of soccer but I do keep up with Kardashians. Howevers the parallels between the transfer market in soccer and the current plight of Kesha have intrigued me to explore further. So what is going on with Kesha? Kesha Rose Sebert, previously known to the world as… Read More »
For the first time in the 124-year history of the club, Liverpool fans staged a walkout during one of their Premier League matches—and it was not for lack of quality on the pitch that was at issue with the home faithful. Liverpool was leading 2-0 at Anfield Saturday against Sunderland in an English Premier League… Read More »
On May 26, 2013, Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Robbie Rogers became the first openly gay male to compete within a major North American professional sports league, stepping onto the pitch in the 77th minute of his club’s match against the Seattle Sounders and demonstrating, even if for only several minutes, a liberation he had never… Read More »
El fútbol femenino es un universo fascinante pero que ha recibido muy poca atención por parte de la prensa deportiva, los estudios históricos e incluso artes como la literatura y el cine. Uno de los pocos textos que tiene al fútbol femenino como tópico central es el libro de Gail J. Newsham, In a League of Their… Read More »
It’s not uncommon for a bloke in England watching a football news program to hear the phrase “manager lose the dressing room”. An idiom referring to a situation in which the players cease to respect and follow their manager’s instructions, this phrase is such a popular term to use in speculating any disputes within a… Read More »
En 2012, fui a mi primer partido de fútbol a mirar los Red Bulls de Nueva York versus los Tottenham Hotspurs. Era el tercer verano Thierry Henry, un jugador francés muy famosa, jugó por los Red Bulls. Senté en la sección de los hinchas de los Red Bulls e inmediatamente cuando los jugadores entraban el… Read More »
In the past three days, the soccer world has been flooded with terrifying stories of soccer-related bombings, Nazi chants, and even an attempted choking on an airplane. Although I haven’t been following the sport of soccer for very long, this burst of soccer-related violence and hate is both unexpected and depressing. But if anything, these recent events of violence… Read More »
Written by Nick Kachulis, Paige Newhouse and Thamina Stoll Preface: When we started discussing the role of migration and race issues in German soccer about a week ago, we had absolutely not anticipated that this topic would become so relevant to the Duke community a couple of days later. Due to shocking recent events that took place… Read More »
After a video of Chelsea fans’ racist behavior went viral last week, I bet bost of us expected fans to calm down. According to an article by Fox News however, the club’s following has yet to learn its lesson. This first incident, one we discussed in class, resulted in the ban of five Chelsea supporters by… Read More »
