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Idioms of play On a recent Saturday morning in New York, I stopped by a basketball court in a park to watch two men work out with a soccer ball. Shirtless with shaved heads and pale skin, they had taken up positions at opposite ends of the court and were playing the ball to one another through the air, crosses whizzed low and hard through the air that nary a touch at the near post would convert into a goal on match day. Thwack, one would take the ball square on his bared chest and then as it landed, fire...
...Something about the way you're playing the ball, I answered. Even before they opened their mouths, their soccer betrayed an English "accent...
...grew up watching soccer in an era when it was still possible to discern distinct national idioms in the way the game was played: The English game was all kick-and-rush, the ball played high into the penalty area as quickly and as often as possible where a tough-as-nails "target man" striker would power his way above the defenders to direct it with his head, either goalwards or else into the path of a supporting forward who could shoot past the keeper. It was an approach that rewarded hard work, physicality, finishing ability (creating a goal...
...their life seemed to approach perfection. They had two children, Wade and Catharine; John's career as a trial lawyer took off, making them fabulously wealthy; and Elizabeth managed to juggle her own legal work with the duties she cared about most: attending PTA meetings, shuttling the kids to soccer games and making their Halloween costumes. One year, when Wade and his friends wanted to dress as parts of a golf course, she figured out how to make real grass grow on cardboard. The idyll collapsed in April 1996, when Wade, 16, died in a freak car accident...
...American practice of franchises moving from one city to another has, until now, been unthinkable in European soccer. But the dynamics of globalization of the game are now such that it's no longer wholly inconceivable, particularly in light of the emerging cartel spirit among the G-14. The political events of the past decade suggest that despite the optimism of globalization's cheerleaders, the process has hardly dissipated sectarian and ethnic political passions in historical trouble spots. But the dynamics of globalization in the game suggest it may become increasingly hard to sustain soccer as an outlet for them...