football
Germany, er, the U.S. beats Italy 1-0 in soccer
The best young American soccer players used to come from big states with large immigrant populations like California, Texas and New Jersey. That might not be true anymore. These days the U.S.A is developing a promising crop of youngsters from a surprising place: Germany....
Oligarch spends fortune on soccer in Russia’s poorest province
LatitudeNews Sports Thursday: For twenty years Russian forces have battled Islamic guerrillas in poverty-stricken Dagestan. Now, a secretive Russian billionaire is trying to turn the local soccer team, Anzhi Makhachkala, into a global force . . . ...
Super Bowl pretty much all American
American culture spans the globe, but its most popular sport doesn't get much interest. Everyone else prefers European football, even on Super Bowl Sunday. Will a new American football league in India change things?...
Egypt’s political football
In Egypt and throughout the Gulf region, football is politics. The stadium is a place for displays of power as well as fanfare. What happened in Port Said was a message, not a mistake... ...
Italian footballers bond to save the world
Italy's debt-soaked economy looks an awful lot like Greece's. Italy's famously self-indulgent soccer players have pitched in to help their country, by buying Italian debt. Their effort was part of a rare show of unity in a bitterly divided country. ...
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