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BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM. This touching English comedy has won rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic for its humorous depiction of women’s soccer. Or, as the characters would say, football. The movie follows the trials and tribulations of an 18 year-old Sikh girl determined to pursue a career in professional football. Her incredible on-field talent, though, is not enough to convince her religiously orthodox parents to allow her to trade the kitchen for the football pitch. So, she runs away from her home in West London to move to Hamburg and follow...
Today, when England faces Germany in soccer, English fans chant, "Two world wars and one World Cup." And what a Cup. An overtime goal gave England its only world championship. The climactic final was extended when the West Germans tied it 2-2 near the end of regulation. In O.T., England's Geoff Hurst blasted a shot off the underside of the crossbar that ricocheted down and over the goal line. Goal. No, on the line. No goal. The camps remain divided. But England celebrated because the only opinion that mattered was the ref's. Goal...
...People have responsibilities, jobs, kids to take to soccer practice—more immediate concerns,” Davis said...
...world's game, basketball remains a distant second to soccer, which has fans in almost every country, totaling more than 1.25 billion. But there's no denying that basketball's appeal is on the rise, especially among younger, urban and middle-class fans. Like soccer, basketball is a relatively cheap game and easy to start playing. It requires only a ball and a makeshift hoop hung on a tree or the side of a house. In Mexico, there is scarcely a town that doesn't have at least one court, and even in impoverished Nigeria, many homes have...
...mosque town of Pelaihari in Indonesia's South Kalimantan province to see the country's hottest and most controversial dangdut singer. They're rowdy, they're eager and, in clear defiance of the laws of physics, all 10,000 of them want in, now, through the soccer stadium's single narrow entrance. The snarling soldiers posted as security are helpless against this crush of sweating humanity. Somehow we all push through safely, and for a moment we pause inside the stadium, the open space disorienting after such close quarters. Then Inul swaggers on stage, packed in tight red jeans...