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Some News for Tue Nov 3, 2009

Du Nord 03 November @ 05:11 PM EST
STARTERS
DC 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 NEWS
It was great to see that New England had scrubbed their field of all football lines for Sunday's game. Click to continue reading...

El Futbol y Albert Camus

FutblogMexicano 02 August @ 10:19 PM EST

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 resaltaría "el Extranjero" la cuál la definiría como la obra de la indiferencia, tiene una relación muy importante con el Futbol.

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Cambalache de Mario Benedetti

FutblogMexicano 26 May @ 10:03 PM EST

¿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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Cambalache de Mario Benedetti

FutblogMexicano 26 May @ 10:03 PM EST

¿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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REFEREES: GODS PLAYING THE FOOLS OR FOOLS PLAYING THE GODS?

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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REFEREES: GODS PLAYING THE FOOLS OR FOOLS PLAYING THE GODS?

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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Galeano, Obama, and the Politics of Football

A More Splendid Life 20 April @ 06:01 PM EST
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. Click to continue reading...