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Fan Culture as Community in Caracas

I’ve been a serial note-taker all my life. Doodling in the back pages of school exercise books, writing reminders in biro on my hands, and noting down quotes whenever they resonate or…

AFCON, Asian Cup, Eurocentrism, continental football, media bias, international football, football fans, South Korean, football fandom, football culture
Why AFCON and the Asian Cup Matter

The World Cup comes around every four years. For a greedy international football fan like me, that’s four years too long. I can somewhat satisfy those cravings through continental tournaments like the…

Washington D.C. America United States Soccer Community
The Beauty of a Neighborhood Game

The August nights were humid and pleasantly long. As the summer turns to fall, the game gets shorter. The kids take the fields until six and it’s dark by 7:45. The weather…

Brazil and the birth of a footballing culture
Brazil and the birth of a footballing culture

Mexico 1970 was Brazil’s coronation as a footballing culture, coming 20 years since the tragedy of the Maracanazo. But the wheels were set in motion in Sweden, when a 17-year-old Pele helped…

A Love Letter to the Scissor Kick
A Love Letter to the Scissor Kick

If the answer is ”the scissor kick”, the question of course is, ”What do Chilean strawberries, a Spanish Spy, the Aztecs and Peter Crouch have in common?” Dear Chilena, I found your name…

God is Round: Why Football Writing Matters
God is Round: Why Football Writing Matters

Citing the examples, anecdotes & words of Coltrane, Van Gogh, Chesterton, Einstein, Mondrian, Cruyff and Bob Dylan to tell you why football writing matters. ‘’Have you heard the story about the Church…

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