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"In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favorite soccer team."
- Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist
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rantnrave:// Some things we read, watched and listened to regarding that big event in Brazil where people kick a ball around... World Cup Bracket and schedule... Stuff to know... Cord cutter guide...
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How Soccer Explains the Sports Page
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When a handful of newspaper reporters helped introduce America to the 'Beautiful Game' 32 years ago For decades, the American sports page ... what's that? What was the sports page? That was the place we got our news, our opinion, our agate type. The man you see yelling about sports on TV?
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The Burden of Being Messi
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In much of Argentina, where Lionel Messi lived until he was 13, native speakers replace the "y" sound with a "sh" sound. Yo, the personal pronoun for "I," becomes "sho," and calle, which other Spanish speakers would pronounce "ka-yay," becomes "ka-shey." The sound gives Argentine Spanish a slurry softness that resembles aspects of the Portuguese spoken in Brazil.
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Diamonds in the Rough
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The human body is 18 percent carbon, which means that if you subject it to high enough pressures at high enough temperatures and hold it there for a long enough time, it will form diamonds. You can try this yourself, in a laboratory.
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Let Them Eat Soccer
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The legacy that comes with this Cup is a very vile one ... [W]e love soccer, but for the first time we have to be honest ... In all reality [society] doesn't have the necessary health, education and all it needs in terms of security and transportation, amongst other things ...
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Top 10 World Cup Goals including Diego Maradona, Pele
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The World Cup is an all-consuming spectacle, but ultimately it is about one thing: the enormous rush of seeing the ball hit the back of the net. There have been 2,063 goals in the World Cup; here's a subjective list of the top 10.
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Why We Call Soccer 'Soccer'
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New Zealand's largest newspaper is deeply conflicted. With the World Cup underway in Brazil, should The New Zealand Herald refer to the "global round-ball game" as "soccer" or "football"? The question has been put to readers, and the readers have spoken. It's "football"-by a wide margin. We in the U.S., of course, would disagree.
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World Cup 2014 makes history with new goal-line tech
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Every four years, the FIFA World Cup reminds us of what makes the tournament historic: great rivals face off; new stars emerge; and moments become unforgettable. This World Cup will make history for an additional reason.
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Why Soccer Is Un-American
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Sports are a reflection of national character and aspirations, and it is no coincidence, I think, that soccer has had a hard time catching on in the United States. Simply put, soccer-call it “football” if you must-is a tragic game, and thus it cuts deeply against the grain of the American ethos.
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How Much Technology Is Too Much Technology for Soccer?
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On a brighter note than Blatter and FIFAand it's hard to think of a darker note-this is the first World Cup where technology rather than human eye and judgement will decide whether a goal has been scored, or at any rate whether the ball has or has not crossed the line.
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World Cup Mystery: Why is China So Horrible at Soccer?
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The Middle Kingdom cannot seem to transfer "small balls" dominance to "big balls" China may be the world's most populous nation but a men's soccer giant it is not. Indeed, the nation, ranked 103 in FIFA's rankings - that's one below Equatorial Guinea - didn't even make this year's World Cup finals.
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Five Brazil World Cup stadium tech facts
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Summary: As the World Cup kicks off, we list five technology projects rolled out across the venues that will be hosting the tournament in Brazil over the next month. 1. Security The Brazilian government acquired 27 robots from US company IRobot for $7.2m which are able to detect bombs and explosives, as well as other risk activities in and around the venues.
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How Does Immigration Affect the Teams at the World Cup?
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In 2004, Qatar tried to buy their way to the World Cup. This wasn't the country trying to buy the rights to host the tournament ( that would come in 2012). This was the Gulf nation attempting to qualify for the tournament by bringing in a small cadre of talented Brazilian players and giving them Qatari citizenship.
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World Cup uniforms again pushing fashion envelope
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The World Cup uniforms will provide a carnival of colour and fashion, from Brazil's bright yellow jerseys to the Netherlands' classic orange to Croatia's red checkered home kit and the superhero-inspired looks of Mexico.
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Why Being Short Can Help in Soccer
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"It is not easy to find another contact sport which remains so open to smaller players," FIFA wrote in an article on its site after the last World Cup, which was titled "Little guys enjoying last laugh."
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Why This Is the Most Important World Cup Ever for American Soccer’s 99 Percent
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Most domestic American players don't make that much money, but with new collective bargaining negotiations coming up, a good performance from the U.S. National Team could help to change that. * Over the past few summers, American soccer fans have flocked to stadiums, watching Major League Soccer teams play out the middle of their 10-month-long seasons.
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Soccer: Let Your Players Drink and They'll Win Games. In Spain, at Least.
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Eight by Eight: World Cup 2014 (Issue 03) The Eight by Eight World Cup Special Issue features 116 bold and beautiful pages about football's most revered and celebrated competition. Issue 03 contains exclusive writing from some of the sport's most acclaimed journalists and showcases striking photography, illustration, and infographics, to create an award-winning, vibrant, large-format package.
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The World Cup’s massive inequality problem is about to blow up
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There is, as media people like to say, a narrative emerging around Brazil's upcoming World Cup. And it's not about soccer, but about unfinished infrastructure, opulent stadiums, match-fixing, evictions and protests. The sordid business of hosting an international sporting event isn't a back story; it's the story.
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Will Soccer Ever Be as Big as Football in the United States?
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As soccer picks up fans and followers in the U.S., entrepreneurs are betting that they'll be able to make a lot of money off of a sport that's already enormously popular elsewhere. Will their bets pay off? * There are several ways to measure the popularity of a sport.
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A long (and short) history of World Cup hemlines and women’s fashion
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When the 2014 World Cup soccer players take the field this afternoon, the hemlines of their shorts will hover not far from their knees. Of course, athletic uniforms must be designed for performance, but like all clothing, they're also affected by the styles of the times.
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Will football always be the biggest sport in the world?
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On the eve of the World Cup, football seems bigger and more dominant than ever. It's the world's richest, most watched and most played sport. The summer Olympics is the only sporting event able to match the World Cup, and this is only through combining some 41 sports.
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Forget John Oliver — FIFA Makes a Mockery of Itself
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Of course you've heard by now - it's all over the Internet: John Oliver on Sunday absolutely eviscerated FIFA, world soccer's governing body, in that special form of dressing-down that only he can conjure.
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