My relationship with football, or I guess sports in general for that matter, is quite minimal and insignificant in nature, but that doesn’t mean I can’t understand the appeal for billions of others around the world. Both of the readings for this week’s topic opened up some avenues of thought for me that I hadn’t […]
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I do not know much about sports but Galeano’s work was a fun read. The writing is playful yet authoritative so it made the book easier to read. Anywho, I wanted to bring some aspects about how spectator sports like soccer are similar to the act of war in some ways, from the technical layout…
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I do not know much about sports but Galeano’s work was a fun read. The writing is playful yet authoritative so it made the book easier to read. Anywho, I wanted to bring some aspects about how spectator sports like soccer are similar to the act of war in some ways, from the technical layout…
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I do not know much about sports but Galeano’s work was a fun read. The writing is playful yet authoritative so it made the book easier to read. Anywho, I wanted to bring some aspects about how spectator sports like soccer are similar to the act of war in some ways, from the technical layout…
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Galeano separates the ecosystem of soccer into sections and dissects the sport from each position in the game. The exploration of each roles of the player, goalkeeper, the idol , the fan, the fanatic, the goal, etc. The explanation of the referee is done well and suggests how the job requires to run the entire […]
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From becoming vegetarian when I was 17 to finding televised soccer boring, I have never been the upstanding Argentinian of my family haha. My interests have never really aligned directly with anything “traditionally Argentinian” except for empanadas and Argentinian art/music (which I found later on in life). Luckily though, I have been given slack for …
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I’m not at all a a soccer person, I’ve never really understood the game. Coming from a British school system I have played it but found it tedious. What i loved about this reading was the way that Galeano broke down the the key aspects of this game. which embraced a community. from the payers […]
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I found this week’s reading to be surprisingly captivating because I’m a nerd who doesn’t play sports. However, I feel like I picked up on the theme of the different representatives in the story as an aspect or category of culture. For instance, the idol and the goal-keeper represent a specific type of person within […]
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I have never been a fan of football, and I have never really understood what it is about football that attracts people. I mean, people chase a ball and kick it around. People are insane about football, especially in Argentina where people would go out on streets and rob stores and start fights after winning […]
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I found Eduardo Galeano’s piece “Soccer in Sun and Shadow” quite dramatic. This doesn’t surprise me as someone who has played soccer and watched a lot of soccer on tv there is almost a cult like following the surrounds the sport. What I did find interesting however was his “confession” at the beginning. This is […]
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