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JAVIER PEREZ FARGUELL Soccer Club Dealmaker...
Farguell, 46, general manager of Futbol Club Barcelona, has made a three-year pact with the National Football League to help buoy the popularity of U.S. football in Europe and European soccer in the U.S. His soccer team will play exhibition games in NFL stadiums, and the Barcelona Dragons, part of NFL Europe, will join F.C. Barcelona's 16-team empire...
...19th century, acted as though barbarian troops were threatening to sweep across its soil imminently. But last year China scored a series of successes not through defensive belligerence but by raising its game, literally and figuratively: it won the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, its men's soccer team for the first time qualified for the World Cup finals and, most significantly, it joined the World Trade Organization. "Now that we feel we are gaining respect, our policy has become more professional, with more give-and-take," says the scholar...
...Daring to Win A SHAME OF TWO HALVES If there's one arena where little Hong Kong was never supposed to challenge Beijing, it was on the playing field. Clerical prowess, perhaps. Rolexes per capita, definitely. But last week at home, the former British colony's notoriously lackluster soccer team trounced the mainland in the Carlsberg Cup, a tournament generally more impressive for copious refreshments than any sporting achievements. So it was that the Hong Kong side, a group of expats and locals even fans describe as "total no-hopers," took on a Chinese World Cup squad whose recent form...
...Nablus, the son of a shopkeeper, but left after the 1967 war to study medicine in England. Not yet 18, he changed his mind - to his parents' displeasure - and headed for Barcelona. Survival and paying for his medical studies meant all sorts of jobs: distributing leaflets, playing semi-pro soccer, being a mafioso extra in a film about boxing. "One Christmas I was employed as one of the Three Kings, the black one," laughs Jamal over a coffee in the Ateneo, Barcelona's leading cultural forum. Jamal is now 50 and married to a Catalan. He has three children...