The Global Game

Writers on Soccer

John C. Turnbull, Alon Raab, Thom Satterlee (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2008
Bison Books (Verlag)
978-0-8032-1078-3 (ISBN)

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Reflects the universal and infinitely varied ways in which soccer connects with human experience. This book shows readers soccer's stars and fans, politics and rituals, as well as the game's power to encourage resistance, inspire faith, and build community.

Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa

The world’s most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planet’s prevalent cultural expressions, celebrated and debated as an art form, observed with ritual and passion. Thus it has inspired literary efforts of every sort, from every corner of the globe, by women and men. The writings gathered in this volume reflect the universal and infinitely varied ways in which soccer connects with human experience. Poetry and prose from Ted Hughes, Charles Simic, Eduardo Galeano, Günter Grass, Giovanna Pollarolo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Elvis Costello—to name but a few—take us to a dizzying array of cultures and climes. From a patch of ground in Missoula, Montana, to a clearing in a Kosovo forest, from the stadiums of Burma and Iran to the northern lights over Greenland to remotest Sierra Leone, these writers show us soccer’s stars and fans, politics and rituals, as well as the game’s power to encourage resistance, inspire faith, and build community.

John Turnbull is a freelance writer on soccer and an editorial consultant. He maintains www.theglobalgame.com, a soccer Web site with an accent on women’s soccer, media, and culture. Translator and author Thom Satterlee is associate professor of English at Taylor University. Alon Raab is a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author of articles, reviews, and interviews. Contributors: Rafael Alberti, Eduard Bass, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Hebe de Bonafini, Lawrence Cann, Bridget Carson, Hernán Casciari, Elvis Costello, Edilberto Coutinho, Erik Eggers, Friedrich Christian Delius, György Dragomán, Philippe Dubath, Álvaro Enrigue, Eduardo Galeano, Günter Grass, Einar Már Guðmundsson, William Heyen, Miroslav Holub, Ted Hughes, Ian Jack, Elísabet Jökulsdóttir, Ephraim Kishon, Simon Kuper, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Driton Latifi, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Mario Vargas Llosa, Subcomandante Marcos, Javier Marías, Andrew Marshall, Stanley Matthews, Christopher Merrill, Mássimo Moratti, Lady Murasaki, Mark Nuttall, Giovanna Pollarolo, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Paul Richards, Klaus Rifbjerg, Nelson Rodrigues, María Graciela Rodríguez, Umberto Saba, Matilde Sánchez, Thom Satterlee, Rogelio Ramos Signes, Charles Simic, Antonio Skármeta, Osvaldo Soriano, David Starkey, Gay Talese, Crispin Thomas, Bea Vidacs, Luiz Vilela, Sarah Wardle, Ch’ao Yueh-chih, and Uroš Zupan.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note to Readers

Part 1. Space

Introduction

1. The Orb

      Klaus Rifbjerg

2. The Origins

      Eduardo Galeano

3. Hem and Football

      Nalinaksha Bhattacharya

4. The Daily Life of Cameroonian Football

      Bea Vidacs

5. The Soccer Moms--1996

      David Starkey

6. Atiguibas

      Julio Ramón Ribeyro

7. Why Eleven of All Numbers? Football between Carnival and Freemasonry

      Erik Eggers

8. Klapzuba's Eleven

      Eduard Bass

9. Holland, a Country of Clubs

      Simon Kuper

10. Readymade

      Álvaro Enrigue

11. Soccer Fields, Fort Missoula

      Bridget Carson

12. "Get Him a Body Bag!" (A Brief, Enthusiastic Account)

      María Graciela Rodríguez

Part 2. Improvisation

Introduction

13. Young Shoots

      Lady Murasaki

14. A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball

      Christopher Merrill

15. Fallen from the Sky

      Javier Marías

16. Combing Over History

      Stanley Matthews

17. Encomiastic Arts of Our National Gamesmen

      Antonio Skármeta

18. The Longest Penalty Ever

      Osvaldo Soriano

19. Fretting While the Scarlet Tide Make History

      Elvis Costello

20. Streaker Disrupts Iceland vs. Albania

      Einar Már Gumundsson

21. Football at Slack

      Ted Hughes

22. Dead Radio

      Charles Simic

23. Fahrenheit 1976

      Rogelio Ramos Signes

Part 3. Challenge

Introduction

24. Dreaming of Sunday Afternoons

      Giovanna Pollarolo

25. A Fine Fla-Flu

      Nelson Rodrigues

26. Escaping with the Ball

      Luiz Vilela

27. Generals and Fools

      Andrew Marshall

28. 1974

      Günter Grass

29. End of the World

      György Dragomán

30. Not So Much a Religion, More a Way of Life

      Ian Jack

31. Kimmel Springs vs. Metula

      Ephraim Kishon

32. For the Sake of My Right and Not Football

      Anonymous

33. Let the Games Begin

      Subcomandante Marcos and Mássimo Moratti

Part 4. Loss

Introduction

34. On a Painting of Playing Football

      Ch'ao Yueh-chih

35. Beauty Is Nothing but the Beginning of a Terror We Can Hardly Bear 000

      Uro Zupan

36. Playing Football in Secret

      Driton Latifi

37. Why Does My Wife Love Peter Crouch?

      Thom Satterlee

38. The Dynamo Team: Legend and Fact

      Anatoly Kuznetsov

39. Boycotting the World Cup

      Hebe de Bonafini and Matilde Sánchez

40. Football in Athens, with Her

      Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

41. Sierra Leone, Social Learning, and Soccer

      Paul Richards

42. Parity

      William Heyen

43. Penalty Phase

      Gay Talese

44. Platko (Santander, May 20, 1928)

      Rafael Alberti

Part 5. Belief

Introduction

45. The Lord's Prayer, Recast

      Edilberto Coutinho

46. Communicate, Lads

      Elísabet Jökulsdóttir

47. Five Poems for the Game of Soccer

      Umberto Saba

48. Living to Tell a Tale (Letter to Diego)

      Hernán Casciari

49. The Empty Pleasure

      Mario Vargas Llosa

50. Match

      Sarah Wardle

51. Zidane and Me

      Philippe Dubath

52. The Sunday I Became World Champion

      Friedrich Christian Delius

53. Art Works Football Club

      Lawrence Cann

54. Football Is

      Crispin Thomas

55. Arsarnerit: Inuit and the Heavenly Game of Football

      Mark Nuttall

56. On the Origin of Football

      Miroslav Holub

Source Acknowledgments

Further Reading

Verlagsort	Nebraska
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fußball
ISBN-10	0-8032-1078-7 / 0803210787
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-1078-3 / 9780803210783
Zustand	Neuware