.@eldacantu: “ Part of the seduction of football is its mythologies. In the case of Peru, this is the return of an underdog against all odds, a tale of redemption. Of redemption, and of suffering.”
#WorldCup2018https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/06/19/world-cup-2018-perus-permission-to-dream/ …
.@AfshinMolavi: “as Europe’s immigration debate heats up, the Belgian squad can point the way toward an ideal of successful, merit-based integration while boosting national pride as they play sublime soccer before billions of viewers”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/06/what-france-and-belgiums-world-cup-success-says-about-european-immigration/ …
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@wwJJDdo: "You want to troll French fascists? Tell them the truth: the most French man in the world right now is a black kid called Kylian Mbappé. And in the eternal words of Aimé Césaire: n’allez pas le répéter, mais le nègre vous emmerde. En français."https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/fear-of-a-black-france …Show this thread -
#Ozil: “I will no longer be playing for Germany at international level whilst I have this feeling of racism and disrespect. The treatment I have received from the@DFB_Team_EN and many others makes me no longer want to wear the German national team shirt”https://twitter.com/ajenews/status/1021113174895063040?s=21 …
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@KarenAttiah: “From France's Les Bleus to Germany's Mezut Ozil, soccer is exposing Europe's racist hypocrisies”https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/24/how-soccer-is-exposing-europes-racist-hypocrisies/ …Show this thread
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