Category: Opinion
South American Football: Beauty in the Roughness
In the United States, it’s rare that football makes its way into the national conversation. Rarer still is it when South American football is the subj [...]
Why I’m Not Supporting Ireland as an Irishman
With the European Championships in full swing in France at the moment, I find myself one of a select few Irish football fans not caught up in the hyst [...]
Maradona’s Andalusian Nightmare
Just a few years removed from the World Cup Final at Italia ’90, Diego Armando Maradona would find himself in a particularly grim situation at Napoli. [...]
Brazilian Football and the China Dilemma
By Dave Caren in Brazil
I arrived in Brazil in 2010 to an economy that was booming.
The Brazilian Real, the local currency, was the stronges [...]