From left: Boyzzz Khumalo, Tendai Jirira, Peter Alegi, Tumi Moshobane, Lesedi Mosielele The second episode of the Umhlaba Podcast, a program about sports and education in Africa and America, has been released! [Click here for free download.] In this episode, Umhlaba Vision Foundation founder Boyzzz Khumalo and I conduct a wide-ranging interview […]
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Russia 2018: A Fútbologist’s Lament
Prior to this year’s FIFA World Cup, which France won last night in Moscow by defeating Croatia 4-2 in the final, I had never experienced a World Cup without my Italy. To make matters worse, my secondary teams, USA and South Africa, also did not qualify. What would it be like to follow the most […]
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No Puskas for Oscar
Sport has gifted humankind with many unforgettable moments. “The Rumble in the Jungle” showed that tactical ingenuity, not only brawn had a place in boxing. Roger Milla dancing at a corner flag after yet another goal in the 1990 World Cup signaled African football’s arrival on the world stage. The drive and determination of Queen […]
Nelson Mandela would have been proud of Colin Kaepernick and the black (as well as a few white) U.S. athletes involved in the national anthem demonstrations against police violence and systemic racism. “Sport has the power to change the world,” Mandela believed. “It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a […]
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Johan Cruyff, Football Genius, Dies at 68
Johan Cruyff, the Dutch football genius, has died of cancer at the age of 68. When I was 7 or 8 years old, growing up in Rome, Italy, my older brother Danny took me along with some of his friends to watch “Il Profeta del Gol.” Sitting in the front row of a run-down movie theater […]
[View the story “FSF The Ugly Game” on Storify] Two weeks before the FIFA election to select Sepp Blatter’s successor as president, the Football Scholars Forum, an international group based at Michigan State University, discussed The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup by Heidi Blake and […]
The FIFA special presidential election will take place on February 26 in Zurich, Switzerland. On Thursday, February 11, at 2pm Eastern U.S. time. the Football Scholars Forum will intellectually and spiritually prepare for this momentous event with an online discussion of The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the […]