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About 90% into this year's Wimbledon Tennis Championship, it's worth retelling how David Samaai became the first Black South African to play there in…
4 hrs ago
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Sean Jacobs
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A Radical Guide to World Cup Matchups: The Quarterfinals
Predictions based on support for Palestinian liberation, the strength of democratic politics, who has the better music (that's subjective), and which…
Published on Eleven Named People
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4 hrs ago
Take Me to Your Leader: Kylian Mbappe
Mbappé, in the news over political comments about the Right in France, is hardly radical. Ironically, tech billionaires he admires back right-wing…
Published on Eleven Named People
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23 hrs ago
Take me to your Leader: Achraf Hakimi
Morocco's Hakimi has become the face of an evolving national team, yet the unresolved sexual assault allegations against him make him a deeply…
Jul 9
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Ivan Pech
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A Radical Guide to World Cup Matchups: The Quarterfinals
Predictions based on support for Palestinian liberation, the strength of democratic politics, who has the better music (that's subjective), and which…
Jul 9
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Sean Jacobs
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I am immigrant when we win
Countries aiming for football success should follow Morocco’s lead: embrace diaspora talent, invest in domestic development, and celebrate immigrant…
Jul 9
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Zamir Karim
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Overturn This
Trump largely ignored the World Cup—until he undercut U.S. soccer and pushed the goodwill its young players had built up against embarrassing "Ugly…
Jul 8
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Jason Burke Murphy
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11 Questions: Dawson McCall
For this occasional series, I ask people to answer 11 questions about teams, players, rivalries that shaped them. Sports historian Dawson McCall is…
Jul 8
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Sean Jacobs
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Afrophobia
How to make sense of violence directed almost exclusively at Black migrants and their South African-born children and South Africans who look "too…
Jul 8
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Sean Jacobs
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David Jacobs
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Take me to your leader: Lise Klaveness
Norway's FA president is emerging as an alternative to Gianni Infantino's corruption, avoiding easy rhetoric while navigating a FIFA where Europe no…
Jul 6
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Sean Jacobs
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Ivan Pech
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Five Ways to Watch the World Cup; Finally: Whose Nation?
In the final installment, Ron Krabill, Director of the Global Sport Lab at the University of Washington writes about how nations themselves are…
Jul 6
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Ron Krabill
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A Radical Guide to the Round of 16: All the Matchups
It's not about form, tactics or talent, but these criteria: Palestinian liberation; the more radical democracy; popular music; and how welcoming…
Jul 4
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Sean Jacobs
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