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CORPORATE ART: just draw it (2009)

 

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FETISH: nike+ sportwatch gps for runners (wired)

CALCIO: indi cowie's freestylin' (thanks c.)

...and it's 300! see you at 400 :-)

soccer players are so poor! (in the us)

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Screenshot of the day: Chiellini - Fifa 11 - truly virtual (EA Sports, Xbox 360 version)

 

Colonialist Italia Finally Out of Africa. Old Europe is Dead

 "France and Italy did not seem to have the stomach for a World Cup in Africa. The French never came out of their guarded camp except to catch the first plane home; the Italians soon followed, and one of Italy’s old, very old, campaigners, Gennaro Gattuso, summed up their resignation: “When we won the World Cup, they awarded us the Cavalier of Labor. Now they will make us Cavaliers of Shame: and correctly so. We have touched bottom.” [...]

But something got under the skin of the surly, withdrawn, self-obsessed and now departed French and Italians. They are big names in soccer, but of small consequence to the World Cup as it goes forward without them.

They will not be missed. The old order is dead, long live the new. Blow those vuvuzelas" (Rob Hughes, The New York Times)

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landon donovan: the american dream

 

dave eggers: the true story of american soccer

 "When children in the United States are very young, they believe that soccer is the most popular sport in the world. They believe this because every single child in America plays soccer. It is a rule that they play, a rule set forth in the same hoary document, displayed in every state capital, that insists that 6-year-olds also pledge allegiance to the flag—a practice which is terrifying to watch, by the way, good lord—and that once a year, they dress as tiny pilgrims with beards fashioned from cotton." (Dave Egggers, Slate)

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