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 […]
I found “Soccer In Sun and Shadow” such a good read. It was super engaging, witty and still quite informative. I especially enjoyed how easy it was to read. As someone who doesn’t really understand football, I appreciated this factor a lot. You would probably expect me to know a decent amount about football sinceContinue reading “Week 10: Football”
First things first, I am no sports expert. Never mind soccer. I know nothing about most things sports related, and…
Firstly I want to say that the format that Galeano uses is quite interesting and makes the reading quite accessible, even for someone who is not that interested in football such as myself. What I found interesting from the very start is the distinction that was made between what is the shallow popular culture view …
Soccer in Sun and Shadow I hate sports, I really do. However, growing up in a Colombian household meant I could never escape football. Every FIFA tournament I would plead with my mom to free me from having to watch the games. Yet no matter how much I whined my mother never let me leave,Continue reading “Week 10: Football LAST 201”
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More resources on cholitas
This documentary was really interesting because it led me to a lot of introspection about entertainment. This was a phenomenon that I didn’t know much about. The concept of ‘chola’ that I have known is quite different and not characterized by skirt wearing. I also thought it was interesting that one of las cholitas noted […]
Lucha libre questions
Okay, first things first with The Fighting Cholitas short film, how rad are these women?! Let’s take a minute to…
