Il y a des dizaines d’académies de football pour les aspirants joueurs de football professionnel. Les meilleures joueurs de football du monde sont formés dans ces académies de football; par exemple, David Beckham, Gareth Bale, Franz Beckenbauer, Andres Iniesta, Adam Lallana, Sep Maier, Leonel Messi, Nani, Neymar Jr., Wesley Sneijder, Theo Walcott, Xavi, et des… Read More »
(Detalle de camiseta de la selección peruana. Jesús Hidalgo, 2015) La próxima semana cumpliré 30 años -sí, lo sé, estoy viejo. Pese a que he visto 7 Copas del Mundo en estas 3 décadas -uno de mis primeros recuerdos relacionados al fútbol es el penal que el arquero argentino Sergio Goycochea tapó a Italia en… Read More »
With all of the recent conversation about favela destruction, drug gang violence, and a supposed World Cup of Terror in the running up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, one very unexpected Dutch immigrant is providing a ray of hope to many of the impoverished children in the favelas, through the game of… Read More »
Despite football’s massive popularity in the world, the world’s four largest countries by population are, for the most part, quite disinterested in the game. The Chinese prefer basketball, the Indians are obsessed with Cricket, the United States has it’s Big 4 sports (Basketball, Baseball, American Football and Ice Hockey), while Indonesia loves its Badminton. If… Read More »
While this post is not about Soccer exactly, I think in light of today’s class discussions comparing youth (American) football to youth soccer in the US it is of interest: Today a Think Progress article came out entitled “Enrollment in Youth Football down 10%”. The numbers given in the article show how youth football in… Read More »
A recent article in the The New York Times about “an American boy wonder in Barcelona” caught my eye this morning. The wonder boy is Ben Lederman, age 13. The Lederman family packed up everything and left their lives, family, and friends in California to move to Barcelona in 2011 when Ben (who was then… Read More »
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