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Casual racism? The not so funny side to the Australian Football League

AFL is arguably Australia’s national game and it encompasses so much of the Australian way of life. It’s known affectionately as footy to its fans, and even ‘aerial ping pong’ to his haters. Fans are passionate about th...
by Trudy McIntosh
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Football

No Easy Game to Play: Nationalist Incentives from War to the Olympics

  Nation-states have recently come under attack, as several scholars have argued that a global world requires novel forms of governance that will eventually make old nations a relic of the past. For the time being, however...
by Lorenzo Piccoli
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 1 – Mostar

Arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one immediately has mixed emotions. Upon seeing the bullet-holes and mass graves – the recent memories that are a tragically normal part of everyday life in this remarkable country, one...
by James Appleby
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Brazil
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A Beleaguered Beautiful Game

Football is turning increasingly ugly but its defects are merely symptomatic of the wider flaws of a modern capitalist society out of control. Football. A divisive topic at the best of times, an obsession for some and an irri...
by Kishan Koria
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 3 – Mostar

After a wonderful, uplifting day providing football workshops for the orphans at Our Kids Foundation in Mostar, it was time to use spread our messages of anti-discrimination and anti-racism to the promising children of Mostar&#...
by James Appleby
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Remembering The Lima Football Tragedy, 50 Years On

Fifty years ago, Peru’s National Stadium in Lima became the site of what is today considered the worst tragedy to ever happen at a football stadium, during which 320 people were killed and 500 were wounded. On May 24, 196...
by Gabriela Garcia Calderon
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 4 – Mostar

The conclusion of our ground-breaking multi-ethnic tournament that brought together fierce city rivals Velez Mostar and Zrinjski Mostar onto the same pitch playing in harmony was upon us, and it was those two teams who were to ...
by James Appleby
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EURO 2012

EURO 2012 UPDATE: Nationalist Riots

Nationalism and footballing sympathies came to a head in Warsaw on Tuesday prior to the second leg of the EURO 2012 group stages, in a match between historical and political rivals Russia and Poland in their first meeting since...
by Colin Busby
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Brazil
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Beyond the World Cup Headlines: Iran’s Lacking Team Spirit, But Brazil’s Favelas Have Plenty

The group stages of the World Cup are largely considered boring affairs in which fans get a glimpse of the more exciting matches to come during the knock-out stage, when every game makes the difference between continuing in the...
by Global Voices
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