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Cole wrote a new post, Cole PCQ 1/16/2014 Problems with 21st Century Football, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:21:35 -0500

Racism, Sexism, and International Migration in 21st Century Football
The football academies in the United Kingdom are an excellent example of how commercialized and global all aspects of the game have become. […]

Cole wrote a new post, Cole TIFO 1/16/2014 Addition to Yesterday's TIFO, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:07:39 -0500

Continuation of Yesterday’s TIFO
I found this article today and lists some more great examples of how Bayern Munich is using the player transfer market to dominate not just the German league, but all of Europe. […]

Cole wrote a new post, Cole PCQ 1/15/2014 European Nationalism and Football since the 1970s, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:03:54 -0500

European Nationalism and Football since the 1970s
The rebirth that the Dutch football team went through for the 2006 World Cup is interesting because instead of looking to the outside to help fix the team, the […]

Cole wrote a new post, Cole TIFO 1/15/2014 A Consolidation of Power, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:52:48 -0500

This article demonstrates how the German Football League, the Bundesliga, is experiencing a similar problem to the Italian league’s beginning of a small number of teams holding all the best players. Right now, […]

Cole wrote a new post, Cole PCQ 1/14/2014 US and Them, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:39:19 -0500

America’s Soccer Identity
In his article, Buffington describes what makes America unique in the area of soccer and defining the idea of a national culture. One passage that seemed spot on to my thinking about […]

Cole wrote a new post, Cole TIFO 1/14/2014, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:48:05 -0500

A Team Attitude
Franck Ribery’s third place finish in the competition for the 2014 Ballon d’Or is nothing to be taken lightly considering the first and second place finishers of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel […]

Cole wrote a new post, An Italian Football Renaissance Under Fascism? Cole Sylvester PCQ 1/9/2014, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:27:30 -0500

Italian Football Renaissance
Italian football in its infancy was riddled with arguments and fighting due to the smaller clubs holding a majority over the larger clubs in the FIGC. This struggle is very similar […]

Cole wrote a new post, Is the Best Still to Come? TIFO 1/9/2014, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:33:42 -0500

Is the Best Still to Come?
In this article, the author makes many good points about how once a team has reached the pinnacle of club football, it is only a matter of time until they fall. Bayern Munich’s success […]

Cole wrote a new post, Early Football History in England and France - by Cole Sylvester, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:19:36 -0500

Cole PCQ 1/8/2014
In Peter Swain and Adrian Harvey’s article on the origins of modern football, they explain how football’s origins center around a rudimentary rule system that is almost completely different from […]

Cole wrote a new post, TIFO: “Neuer Named World’s Best Goalkeeper” - by Cole Sylvester, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:36:11 -0500

This article shows how German players are reaching the pinnacle of their careers just as the World Cup is coming around again. Neurer’s upsetting of Spanish icon Iker Casillas’s five year reign over the award […]

Cole commented on the post, Carter PCQs 1/7/14, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:25:16 -0500

In the cases of Yaya Toure and Djibril Cisse, you bring up good points about how racism in sports is still prevalent even in today’s modern world. Those same notions from the beginning of the Brazilian clubs that […]

Cole commented on the post, Mac PCQ 1/7/14, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:17:08 -0500

You make some very interesting points about how soccer clubs were are are more than just sports teams. These clubs fulfil society’s need for a distraction from the drone of ordinary life as well as a place to […]

Cole wrote a new post, Early Football, Race, Ethnicity and National Identity in Brazil - by Cole Sylvester, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:45:32 -0500

Cole PCQ 1/7/2014
An interesting idea that the article, The Making of Brazilian Football, brings up is the idea that soccer is a sport that can be learned and played by any social or economical class. It is an […]

Cole wrote a new post, TIFO: Lewandowski Transfer Settled Amid Bayern Munich and Chelsea Talk, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:41:34 -0500

Cole TIFO 1/7/2014
This TIFO talks about the final decision of one of the top players in the European Champions League to leave his former club team for Bayern Munich and how media speculation has been a big part […]

Cole wrote a new post, Race, Nationalism, Globalization and Sports - by Cole Sylvester, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT)

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:28:29 -0500

Cole PCQ 1/6/2014
The article, Theories of “Race” by Michael Banton, takes a look at the idea that “race” does not have a biological reason or empirical existence. Rather, the idea that there are separate “races” […]