Du Nord 03 November @ 05:11 PM EST
STARTERSDC United announced that head coach Tom Soehn has resigned, so the team now join New York, Kansas
City and Toronto in the hunt for a new leader.
MLS PLAYOFF NEWSIt was great to see that New England had scrubbed their field of all football lines for Sunday's
game.
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Lease Albert Camiu, Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1957, parte de la generación de los
existencialistas y contemporáneo a Jean Paul Sartre, con quién sostuvo una
polémica por la inclinación Comunista de este. Con una obra tan extensa pero donde resaltarÃa
"el Extranjero" la cuál la definirÃa como la obra de la indiferencia, tiene una relación muy
importante con el Futbol.
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¿Quién puede decir que Mario Benedetti ha muerto?, a lo mejor sus restos lo
comprueban, pero su sentimiento, inteligencia y pasión estan tan vivas que basta repasar
cualquiera de sus obras para corroborarlo. Como buen Uruguayo le dió, o le da mejor dicho un
espacio importante al Fútbol, en este caso incluimos su cuento Cambalache.
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¿Quién puede decir que Mario Benedetti ha muerto?, a lo mejor sus restos lo
comprueban, pero su sentimiento, inteligencia y pasión estan tan vivas que basta repasar
cualquiera de sus obras para corroborarlo. Como buen Uruguayo le dió, o le da mejor dicho un
espacio importante al Fútbol, en este caso incluimos su cuento Cambalache.
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Footsmoke 22 May @ 11:15 AM EST
Or, A Post Kind of Like The Last One, With Different Words
"The losers owe their loss to him and the winners triumph in spite of him. Scapegoat for every
error, cause of every misfortune, the fans would have to invent him if he didn't already exist. The
more they hate him, the more they need him."
- Eduardo Galeano, Soccer In Sun and Shadow
Referees serve some of the game's most cruel paradoxes.
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Footsmoke 22 May @ 11:15 AM EST
Or, A Post Kind of Like The Last One, With Different Words
"The losers owe their loss to him and the winners triumph in spite of him. Scapegoat for every
error, cause of every misfortune, the fans would have to invent him if he didn't already exist. The
more they hate him, the more they need him."
- Eduardo Galeano, Soccer In Sun and Shadow
Referees lie at the center of the game's most cruel paradoxes.
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Perhaps every bookish football supporter has heard of/read the writings of Uruguayan journalist and
poet, Eduardo Galeano. Judging how often his name is dropped among left-wing academic armchair
football "fans" (see SWPL on the subject), he's also becoming the face of football for the growing
body of mostly North American academes who deem football the one acceptable spectacle sport, in
contrast with those "brute expressions of masculine oppression," American gridiron and hockey.
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