Trinity Banter | Gabriel | Activity https://commons.trincoll.edu/members/gmaletta/activity/ Activity feed for Gabriel. Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:29:28 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=9.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7a1417c447b14143550eb526c4faef62 Gabriel wrote a new post, Gabriel Maletta Final Paper, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/21/gabriel-maletta-final-paper/ Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:14:37 -0500 European Integration and Racial Controversy at Euro 2012

Soccer is often described as the “beautiful game,” captivating people around the world with its simplicity and ability to bring people together. This can […]

]]> b77ce5f1c1eddf3f3abf2cfe130ace63 Gabriel wrote a new post, TIFO 8: BBC Documentary was 'necessary', on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/19/tifo-8-a-controversial-documentary/ Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:24:42 -0500 This TIFO is the BBC’s response to accusations of sensationalism in its documentary ‘Stadiums of Hate.’ The BBC declared that the documentary was beneficial for soccer in Eastern Europe, as it was enough of a gut […]

]]> 02b5b70dad95e2522dbdd1034cba9a5b Gabriel wrote a new post, TIFO 7: The 'Polish Effect', on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/19/tifo-7-the-polish-effect/ Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:21:16 -0500 This TIFO is a page from the Polish Ministry of Sport and Tourism. It seeks to redub ‘the Barcelona effect’ the ‘Polish Effect’ as the EURO 2012 games had an overwhelming effect upon Polish tourism and the […]

]]> 8519dd00712352ed9f51e767cea436ee Gabriel wrote a new post, PCQ 7 Gabriel Maletta, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/17/pcq-7-gabriel-maletta/ Fri, 17 Jan 2014 03:59:04 -0500 Rowe’s article ‘Stages of the global’ shows both the positive and negative effects that media has upon football. On one side the media is capable of broadcasting football to the world. Just as our classroom shows, […]

]]> 5a810e6fe830f9c66cef0e429065d8be Gabriel wrote a new post, Style and Identity PCQ 6, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/17/style-and-identity-pcq-6/ Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:45:06 -0500 Lechner’s article focuses on the Dutch national team and their development of a “Dutch National Style” of football throughout the late 20th century. Lechner bases some of the Dutch resurgence in the late 20th […]

]]> 9ef189fa54df68d8ffda9f2e81e65f7e Gabriel wrote a new post, TIFO 6: Controversy over 'Stadiums of Hate' , on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/16/tifo-6/ Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:45:57 -0500 This TIFO is in response to an early TIFO I submitted, a documentary by the BBC’s Panorama program. After additional research I have found the documentary to be highly controversial, with many accusing it of being […]

]]> 7c77aeedc4f5274e3dc8b190a4f330bb Gabriel wrote a new post, Soccer: Fighting for a spot at the table PCQ 5, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/16/soccer-fighting-for-a-spot-at-the-table-pcq-5/ Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:17:35 -0500 In his article Buffington reveals the multitude of problems that face soccer in the United States. One of the aspect he touches on briefly is soccer’s ‘newcomer’ status as a sport in America. Buffington argues […]

]]> 3c2db6111c88b4d3ab976e4c5f4eabac Gabriel wrote a new post, TIFO 5: Racism Blocks Reintegration, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/15/tifo-5-racism-blocks-reintegration/ Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:46:38 -0500 This TIFO focusses on sporting events as a platform for ‘showing off’ a nation to the world. This piece in particular focuses on Poland as one of the host nations for Euro 2012. The piece argues that if Poland is […]

]]> 5a1e0e7ca6a839bd108800ef68d03744 Gabriel wrote a new post, TIFO 4: Racism Fears at EURO2012 Part 2, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/14/tifo-4-racism-fears-at-euro2012-part-2/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:06:20 -0500 This TIFO continues the theme from my last TIFO about racism fears leading up to the Euro 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine. Several weeks before the events the BBC released a short documentary highlighting racist […]

]]> 0610bc43c654fc5a0d1dedd83c206546 Gabriel wrote a new post, Fascism: Good or Bad for Italian Football?, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/10/fascism-good-or-bad-for-italian-football/ Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:51:02 -0500 The two chapters of Simon Martin’s book ‘Football and Fascism: The National Game under Mussolini’ deal with the early influence of Fascism on the game in the 1920s and 1930s and their effect on the teams of the […]

]]> c997cb807682b0656cbbc80eabc97e15 Gabriel wrote a new post, TIFO 3: Racism Fears at Euro2012, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/09/tifo-3-racism-fears-at-euro2012-gabriel-maletta/ Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:03:33 -0500 This article, dated May 2012, highlights the fears of racism that cast a dark cloud in the run up to the 2012 European Cup. The Cup was hosted by both Poland and the Ukraine, countries known for xenophobia and […]

]]> ac97649ba89f49a8c0a0e7e65775b59c Gabriel wrote a new post, Gabriel Maletta PCQ 3, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/09/gabriel-maletta-pcq-3/ Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:00:25 -0500 The Business of Soccer
Swain’s article reflects on the progression of football from a private school boy’s game into a professional sport in the later half of the 19th century in the region of Lacashire, England. […]

]]> 4c81f2db7efebbcb10e4c619fe607af0 Gabriel commented on the post, Early Football, Race, Ethnicity and National Identity in Brazil - by Cole Sylvester, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/07/cole-sylvester-pcq-172014/comment-page-1/#comment-939 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:59:55 -0500 Cole you mention Bocketti’s argument that soccer helped to bridge the cultural gap for many Italian immigrants in Brazil. However, Bocketti also presents the backlash that the Italian-Brazilians faced when they […]

]]> 228bccb55ed9759b1ef56e1a5e813a1f Gabriel wrote a new post, Gabriel Maletta TIFO 2, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/08/gabriel-maletta-tifo-2/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:25:20 -0500 This TIFO focuses on Football Against Racism in Europe or the FARE Network.  The FARE network is a dedicated group of NGOs, player Unions and Leagues which act to erase racism from soccer through campaigning and […]

]]> 200c4fd4f383da839c82b9de1e3d57df Gabriel wrote a new post, Gabriel Maletta PCQ2, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/08/gabriel-maletta-pcq2/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:46:48 -0500 Lopes article tracks the growth of soccer in Brazil, beginning with the early games played by Europeans and the elite up until Brazil’s 1998 run to the World Cup in France where the national team fielded a […]

]]> f03d2f2b5bdfcbbf9d390cccdcfa015c Gabriel wrote a new post, TIFO: Thierry Henry's "Stand UP Speak UP Commercial" - by Gabriel Maletta, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/07/233/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:01:47 -0500 This TIFO shows one of the many commercials used in the ‘Stand Up, Speak Up’ campaign launched in 2005 by Footballer Thierry Henri and Nike. The campaign fights to bring attention to racism in professional soccer […]

]]> 542962aa91d673368ef91a2c55aa3235 Gabriel wrote a new post, Race, Nationalism, Globalization and Soccer, by Gabriel Maletta, on the site Sports History at Trinity College (CT) http://commons.trincoll.edu/sportshistory/2014/01/07/pcq-1/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:52:10 -0500 The first article, Banton’s Theories of ‘Race’ seeks to define Race as a social construct born out of the scientific and social enlightenments of the last few centuries. He argues that the development of race as a […]

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