It is easy to spot the Croatian team. They are the white ones.
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The ZMan’s Blog is always worth reading, and today is no exception. Avoiding the cliché post about or around Bastaille Day, ZMan digs into the game at the heart of the recent World Cup hoo-haw: football, or as you Yanks call it, “soccer.”[1] (more…)
Germany’s World Cup victors. Clothes by Hugo Boss.
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The World Cup in Brazil is over, and Germany — with its predominantly white squad — is the first European team in history to win in Latin America. And, in the views of football experts and neutral fans around the world, it was a well-deserved victory. (more…)
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“Football now has an immense social responsibility, which it must meet.”
— Anti-discrimination sociologist and “fan researcher” Gerd Dembowski
A recent spate of articles celebrating multiculturalism and FIFA’s World Cup argue that more diverse football squads do better.[1] (more…)