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...Saturday afternoon, the Harvard women’s soccer team trounced the Bears 3-0 in a decisive victory at Stevenson Field in Providence. “We knew with this game that our destiny was in our hands, because we have four more Ivy teams to play,” junior Christina Hagner said. “If we win all our games, we will be in really good position to win Ivies.” With this victory over the Bears (5-5-4, 1-2-1 Ivy), the Crimson (7-3-3, 3-1) extended its winning...
Games don’t come much bigger than this. When the Harvard men’s soccer team takes the field against Brown tomorrow night in Providence, R.I., the two best teams in the Ivy League will be on display. Up for grabs? A big head start in the race for the league crown—and the automatic tournament spot that comes with it. The Crimson (5-3, 2-0 Ivy) comes into the match feeling confident after back-to-back wins to start its Ivy schedule. Following a devastating 5-1 loss at the hands of Boston...
...those remedies may be missing the cause of the problem. Most of the booing came not from visiting Tunisians, but from fans born and raised in France. Such booing has come to be used by ethnic-Arab French soccer fans to protest the racial, social and economic discrimination suffered by those not fortunate enough to be among the stars of les Bleus. It's hardly coincidental that previous outbreaks of anthem booing (and resulting expressions of indignation by politicians) occurred before a France-Algeria match in 2001, a France-Morocco game in 2007, and a 2002 French Cup final orchestrated...
...Corsican exception apart, booing France's anthem has become an effective tactic for drawing attention away from the largely black and Arab faces that defend France's honor on the soccer field, and back to the communities from which they come in the decrepit housing projects surrounding the Stade de France and other suburban stadia. On Tuesday night, the protest carried a sharper edge, given the fact that the anthem was being sung by Franco-Tunisian R'n'B artist Laam, whose own childhood was marked by poverty and hardship...
...under the skin of French officialdom, a more effective response may be to feign indifference in order to rob the slight of its intended impact. In fact, a significant portion of the booing has little to do with politics at all - it's the reaction of white French soccer fans to the parlous state of the national team, and failure of an unresponsive establishment to rectify it by firing the widely loathed national coach, Raymond Domenech...