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FILM
PRESERVES ZIDANE’S DAY OF WORK ON ‘THE GREEN OF THE FIELD’
Given the paucity
of festival appearances stateside for Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait—which
premiered at Cannes last year—and as yet unformed plans for distribution,
group screenings in the U.S. will have to be undertaken with the heinous
benefit of DVD conversion software. Read
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PODCASTS
Dundee, Scotland, May 31 |
In our second
podcast, we speak with Billy Kay, author
of The Scottish World: A Journey into the Scottish Diaspora.
Kay discusses the Scots' role in spreading an artistic passing
game in the early days of association football and his encounters
with the Tartan Army.
Geoff Hurst, for one,
falls victim to the Scots' wit. Of Hurst's controversial
1966 strike versus West Germany, he hears, 20 years later,
"It wesnae a goal by the way, Geoff." Read
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Out
of thin air | Where llamas and footballers prosper, FIFA fears
to tread La Paz, Bolivia, Jun 15 | On May 27, FIFA's executive committee announced the ban on competitive international matches 2,500m above sea level. For once united internally and with their Andean neighbors, Bolivia—the country most severely affected—is organizing. A manifesto sponsored by several Bolivian newspapers concludes, "Bolivians are a poor people, we play football with humility, but we are dignified and we have a national character such that we will defend our rights when we are not at fault."
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We
brake for commercials | Soccer spectacle fits seamlessly in America’s
land of make-believe May
27 | Multibillionaire Philip Anschutz,
owner of three Major League Soccer teams, has seized on football as
a consumable, offering it to the American public in packaged, market-tested
form devoid of any native countercultural quality. Such practice is
in keeping with what Umberto Eco and isolated voices
from the past, such as Britain's suffragettes, have noticed about
male spectator sport: that it is a cultural neurosis "for which
there is neither a reasonable explanation nor an effective cure."
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Flower
of Scotland | Do nationalist feelings last longer than 90 minutes? Edinburgh,
Scotland, May 8 | Nationwide parliamentary elections
have lifted Scottish nationalists, for the first time, into a plurality
of seats in the Scottish Assembly at Holyrood. Football plays its
role in this independent-leaning Scottish self-conception, having
led to the coining of the phrase "90-minute patriot" for
the supporter lustily baying �Flower of Scotland� at Hampden Park
while other vestiges of anti-Englishness have worn away. Read
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The
year of Speedy Gonzales | In 2006 Texas final, Brownsville’s
Cowboys produced outsider’s art Brownsville,
Texas, Apr 13 | The Porter High School Cowboys' soccer
season ended prematurely this year, in a regional quarterfinal playoff
to Brownsville rivals Rivera. By defeating Coppell in the 2006 final,
the school, however, will always lay claim to having become the first
team from the Rio Grande Valley, in any sport, to have won a state
championship competing among Texas' largest high schools (class 5A).
They also validated, in the face of prejudice, their existence as
straddlers of culture and language. Read
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Talisman
of the throw | FIFA searches for new moniker to proclaim Blatter’s
reign Zurich,
Apr 1 | Suits at FIFA, the governing body for the
world game, apparently are a bit miffed at the license being taken
with Joseph "Sepp" Blatter's honorific. Gliding unopposed
into a third term as FIFA president, Blatter has on occasion been
heralded in press reports as the FIFA "boss," "supremo" or, sometimes,
"kingpin." Instead, the football organization wants to try "high
priest," "honourable helmsman" or "play-maker
supreme" on for size. Read
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Offside
trap | Iranian women, in Panahi’s film, move beyond a boundary Tehran,
Iran, Mar 28 | The women in Offside—
Jafar Panahi's 2006 production now receiving limited release
in American cinemas—have "entered a forbidden space before
the law has given them permission to do so," Panahi says. "They
don't have that permission yet, but they've gone ahead and entered
the territory anyway. They've overturned the rules." Read
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Don’t
smoke ’em if you got ’em | Coming ban in England
stadia another blow to terrace nostalgia London,
Mar 16 | Connections between smoking and football, as
in sports in general, have been persistent, with the relationship
only in the past 10 years or so, influenced by anti-smoking lobbies,
having moved to one of antipathy rather than bonhomie. Any traces
of the UK terrace culture after which nostalgists now pine may be
snuffed out permanently as of 1 July, at 6 a.m., when a
nationwide public smoking ban comes into force. Read
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