From the Ballon d’Or to the Presidency of Liberia
During the 2022 FIFA World Cup, in the 34th minute of the USA-Wales match, held at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al-Rayyan in Qatar, Yunus Musa and Josh Sargent initiated a collective offensive action and brought in Christian Pulisic. Pulisic made a well-timed run...
When Getting There (and Back) Was More than Half the Fun: The 1996 Men’s Olympic Soccer Quarter-Finals
“The ride back was every bit as joyful and cacophonous as the ride to Birmingham had been, marked by serial engagements with passing fans in passing cars, smiling, waving, beeping, singing and just celebrating – the win, the loss, whatever.”
Does “Mens sana in corpore sano’’ apply to soccer players?
“Let’s look at those who combined athleticism with scholarship. We will consider the ones who were fortunate enough to enjoy true happiness, according to the dictate of the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who said “What man is happy? Whoever has a healthy body, a sophisticated mind, and teachable nature.”
The 1960 Scandal
Dr. José Luis Pierrend from Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation recently shared his feeling that the biggest mistake ever made in Golden Ball history is that Ferenc Puskas did not win the trophy in 1960. This article aims to reflect on such a miss, which can be...
Was it Destiny or Fate?
The question for today’s assignment is which quote about destiny or fate relates the most to the stories below, which all happened on the biggest stage on Earth: the FIFA World Cup.