FOOTBALL

Ask The Sophist 

• The Sophist

Is It Fair to Run Up the Football Score Against Outnumbered Eight-Year-Olds?

Published on Oct 20, 2022 12:47AM EDT

War and Soccer

• Ernest Ifeanyi Nweke

How one man's goals helped heal a war-torn country

Published on Mar 28, 2022 6:00AM EDT

Praise the Good

• Yonatan Raz Portugali

on singing from the stands, when the stadium goes remote

Published on Jun 29, 2020 9:00AM EDT

We weren’t really sure which fans we had been seeing on the streets

• Shirley Wang

The driver showed us a wrinkly red River jersey that he had stuffed between the passenger seat.

Published on Jul 23, 2019 6:00AM EDT

Levski versus CSKA

• Savannah Fortis

Their reverence for the past clashing with concern for their culture’s place in a future modernization alongside that of Western Europe, played out in the extremist mentality that characterizes sports culture everywhere in the world.

Published on Apr 10, 2019 11:00AM EDT

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This was no park kickaround

• Matthew Hirtes

If the ball needs to be kicked out, it’s whacked.

Published on Feb 6, 2019 9:00AM EST

George Alhassan: Footballer and Photographer

• Kwabena Agyare Yeboah

I wanted to find out about Alhassan the photographer, but that meant reckoning with Alhassan the football star.

Published on Jan 22, 2019 4:15PM EST

Miscellany: Bodies

• The Editors

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul

Published on Jan 1, 2019 9:40PM EST

In what other sport do you have a moment where one man will determine the mood of millions?

• Rami Danon

This one moment Greek tragedy-like climax of personal drama combined with nationalism exists in no other sport.

Published on Oct 7, 2018 12:00PM EDT