The Global Game

Preface    

Acknowledgments  

Note to Readers  

Part 1. Space

Introduction     

1. The Orb 

      Klaus Rifbjerg

2. The Origins   

      Eduardo Galeano

3. Hem and Football    

      Nalinaksha Bhattacharya

4. The Daily Life of Cameroonian Football

      Bea Vidacs

5. The Soccer Moms--1996     

      David Starkey

6. Atiguibas     

      Julio Ramón Ribeyro

7. Why Eleven of All Numbers? Football between Carnival and Freemasonry

      Erik Eggers

8. Klapzuba's Eleven   

      Eduard Bass

9. Holland, a Country of Clubs     

      Simon Kuper

10. Readymade

      Álvaro Enrigue

11. Soccer Fields, Fort Missoula   

      Bridget Carson

12. "Get Him a Body Bag!" (A Brief, Enthusiastic Account)  

      María Graciela Rodríguez

Part 2. Improvisation

Introduction     

13. Young Shoots

      Lady Murasaki

14. A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball   

      Christopher Merrill

15. Fallen from the Sky

      Javier Marías

16. Combing Over History     

      Stanley Matthews

17. Encomiastic Arts of Our National Gamesmen  

      Antonio Skármeta

18. The Longest Penalty Ever 

      Osvaldo Soriano

19. Fretting While the Scarlet Tide Make History     

      Elvis Costello

20. Streaker Disrupts Iceland vs. Albania

      Einar Már Gu<d'>mundsson

21. Football at Slack

      Ted Hughes

22. Dead Radio   

      Charles Simic

23. Fahrenheit 1976     

      Rogelio Ramos Signes

Part 3. Challenge

Introduction     

24. Dreaming of Sunday Afternoons  

      Giovanna Pollarolo

25. A Fine Fla-Flu     

      Nelson Rodrigues

26. Escaping with the Ball   

      Luiz Vilela

27. Generals and Fools 

      Andrew Marshall

28. 1974   

      Günter Grass

29. End of the World   

      György Dragomán

30. Not So Much a Religion, More a Way of Life 

      Ian Jack

31. Kimmel Springs vs. Metula

      Ephraim Kishon

32. For the Sake of My Right and Not Football  

      Anonymous

33. Let the Games Begin

      Subcomandante Marcos and Mássimo Moratti

Part 4. Loss

Introduction     

34. On a Painting of Playing Football    

      Ch'ao Yueh-chih

35. Beauty Is Nothing but the Beginning of a Terror We Can Hardly Bear  000

      Uro<s^> Zupan

36. Playing Football in Secret     

      Driton Latifi

37. Why Does My Wife Love Peter Crouch?  

      Thom Satterlee

38. The Dynamo Team: Legend and Fact     

      Anatoly Kuznetsov

39. Boycotting the World Cup 

      Hebe de Bonafini and Matilde Sánchez

40. Football in Athens, with Her   

      Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

41. Sierra Leone, Social Learning, and Soccer  

      Paul Richards

42. Parity 

      William Heyen

43. Penalty Phase

      Gay Talese

44. Platko (Santander, May 20, 1928)     

      Rafael Alberti

Part 5. Belief

Introduction     

45. The Lord's Prayer, Recast

      Edilberto Coutinho

46. Communicate, Lads  

      Elísabet Jökulsdóttir

47. Five Poems for the Game of Soccer    

      Umberto Saba

48. Living to Tell a Tale (Letter to Diego)    

      Hernán Casciari

49. The Empty Pleasure 

      Mario Vargas Llosa

50. Match  

      Sarah Wardle

51. Zidane and Me

      Philippe Dubath

52. The Sunday I Became World Champion   

      Friedrich Christian Delius

53. Art Works Football Club  

      Lawrence Cann

54. Football Is  

      Crispin Thomas

55. Arsarnerit: Inuit and the Heavenly Game of Football    

      Mark Nuttall

56. On the Origin of Football

      Miroslav Holub

Source Acknowledgments 

Further Reading