Spain, which once did bestride the soccer world like a colossus, has been ousted from the World Cup.
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Spain No Longer a Soccer Colossus
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U. S. as Prey in Most Dangerous Game?
America’s soccer squad has an unsettling resemblance to the human prey in “The Most Dangerous Game.”
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Beckham Bends It Like Achilles
In 2010 Carol Ann Duffy compared Beckham to Achilles after he went down with an injury to his Achilles tendon.
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Spanish Soccer as the Lady of Shalott
In “The Lady of Shalott,” beauty can’t stand up against the real world. By winning the European Cup, Spain showed us this doesn’t always have to be the case.
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Twice Left for Dead, Japan Claws Back
Two images came to mind as I twice watched the Japanese soccer team rebound from deficits. One was from Alain’s Renais’s film “Hiroshima Mon Amour” where we see grass clawing its way back in the city streets on the day following the atom bomb. The other was of the tortoise crossing the road in “Grapes of Wrath.”
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Cinderella vs. Jane Eyre in Soccer Final
In tomorrow’s World Cup finals, Japan is Cinderella going up against America’s Jane Eyre.
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The Poetry of Spanish Soccer
The incomparable Xavi Sports Saturday Spanish sports is having a great year. First of all, Spanish forward Pau Gasol was a major reason why the Los Angeles Lakers won their 16th championship in an archetypal series against the Boston Celtics. Then we were officially ushered from the Age of Federer into the Age of Nadal […]
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