Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296). - 2.Verlag: Combined Academic, Chesham
Contents
The orb / Klaus Rifbjerg
The origins / Eduardo Galeano
Hem and football / Nalinaksha Bhattacharya
The daily life of Cameroonian football / Bea Vidacs
The soccer moms, 1996 / David Starkey
Atiguibas / Julio Ramo¿n Ribeyro
Why eleven of all numbers? : football between Carnival and Freemasonry / Erik Eggers
Klapzuba's eleven / Eduard Bass
Holland, a country of clubs / Simon Kuper
Readymade / A¿lvaro Enrigue
Soccer fields, Fort Missoula / Bridget Carson
"Get him a body bag!" (A brief, enthusiastic account) / Mari¿a Graciela Rodri¿guez
Young shoots / Lady Murasaki
A boy juggling a soccer ball / Christopher Merrill
Fallen from the sky / Javier Mari¿as
Combing over history / Stanley Matthews
Encomiastic arts of our national gamesmen / Antonio Ska¿rmeta
The longest penalty ever / Osvaldo Soriano
Fretting while the Scarlet Tide make history / Elvis Costello
Streaker disrupts Iceland vs. Albania / Einar Ma¿r Gudmundsson
Football at Slack / Ted Hughes
Dead radio / Charles Simic
Fahrenheit 1976 / Rogelio Ramos Signes
Dreaming of Sunday afternoons / Giovanna Pollarolo
A fine fla-flu / Nelson Rodrigues
Escaping with the ball / Luiz Vilela
Generals and fools / Andrew Marshall
1974 / Gu¿nter Grass
End of the world / Gyo¿rgy Dragoma¿n
Not so much a religion, more a way of life / Ian Jack
Kimmel Springs vs. Metula / Ephraim Kishon
For the sake of my right and not football / Anonymous
Let the games begin / Subcomandante Marcos and Ma¿ssimo Moratti
On a painting of playing football / Ch'ao Yueh-chih
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of a terror we can hardly bear / Uro Zupan
Playing football in secret / Driton Latifi
Why does my wife love Peter Crouch? / Thom Satterlee
The Dynamo team : legend and fact / Anatoly Kuznetsov
Boycotting the World Cup / Hebe de Bonafini and Matilde Sa¿nchez
Football in Athens, with her / Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
Sierra Leone, social learning, and soccer / Paul Richards
Parity / William Heyen
Penalty phase / Gay Talese
Platko (Santander, May 20, 1928) / Rafael Alberti
The Lord's Prayer, recast / Edilberto Coutinho
Communicate, lads / Eli¿sabet Jo¿kulsdo¿ttir
Five poems for the game of soccer / Umberto Saba
Living to tell a tale (letter to Diego) / Herna¿n Casciari
The empty pleasure / Mario Vargas Llosa
Match / Sarah Wardle
Zidane and me / Philippe Dubath
The Sunday I became world champion / Friedrich Christian Delius
Art Works Football Club / Lawrence Cann
Football is / Crispin Thomas
Arsarnerit : Inuit and the heavenly game of football / Mark Nuttall
On the origin of football / Miroslav Holub