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Entries Tagged ‘culture’

Is It Racism or Cultural?

Jon Lowder did a followup on my recent post about racism in soccer and took it in the direction of the shortage of minorities of any color playing in North Carolina leagues:

I don’t think that overt racism is a contributing factor to the lack of diversity on the soccer fields. I think most clubs would [...]

Jugadores confusos del fútbol

Just when you were comfortable with your weekends free to do whatever, so begins another season! And there was much rejoicing! As luck would have it, we had beautiful weather in January with temperatures often hitting 60 or 70. As soon as practices started – yup – frigid temperatures, wind, rain, even a little snow. [...]

The Culture of Soccer (Moms)

Watercolor by Maryann Burton
If you haven’t had a chance to stop by the relatively new blog ‘Culture of Soccer‘ by David Keyes, you should find some time to do so. I found my way there thanks to Josh over at ThroughBall and have enjoyed reading David’s in depth posts about a variety of topics related [...]

A Home On The Field

Lisa over at LDSM, Soccer Mom recently highlighted a new book that is out called ‘A Home On The Field‘ which sounds very interesting. Written by TIME Magazine reporter Paul Cuadros, it chronicles the experiences and hardships of a group of Latino students working to start up a soccer team at [...]