Tag Archives: soccer

joy is round

Posted on 02/02/2013 by

Jessica Hilltout’s notebooks | via Nat’l Geo :: Joy Is Round: On fields through- out Africa, plastic bags, old clothes, and shredded tires transform into magic orbs — soccer balls. My most recent and challenging project has been a grassroots … Continue reading →

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headbutt

Posted on 28/09/2012 by

Headbutt by Algerian sculptor Adel Abdessemed “This statue goes against the tradition of making statues to honor victories,” said Phillipe Alain Michaud, who directed the exhibition. “It is an ode to defeat… Zidane’s downward glance recalls that of Adam, chased … Continue reading →

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marilyn + football

Posted on 13/06/2012 by

[uncredited] via everyday i show

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sawa

Posted on 10/01/2012 by

Homare Sawa, captain of the Japanese women’s football team, is FIFA’s women’s player of the year. Sawa, 33, led her team to win the World Cup last year. Sawa receives her award from Shakira. Sawa listens to her nation’s national … Continue reading →

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obrosov

Posted on 13/12/2011 by

Moscow. Studio of artist Igor Obrosov and his cat (1985) Photo: Igor Palmin via everyday i show

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rage

Posted on 05/05/2011 by

If your love of soccer has brought you to a point where you’re no longer really able to see the game as something wonderful and amazing except in narrow moments of unequivocal triumph, then you are doing it wrong… ~ … Continue reading →

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zizou

Posted on 26/02/2011 by

Zinedine Zidane photographed by Martin Schoeller via everyday i show

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#9

Posted on 10/12/2010 by

Cover of Lennon’s 1974 album Walls and Bridges showing a football match that John painted at age 11. Featured in Brian Phillips’ story about its origins, Football and the Beatles, on The Run of Play.

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socc’air

Posted on 31/10/2010 by

photo by Frederic Baque addendum: photo: anto XIII

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‘an imperfect, fragile piece of momentary happiness’

Posted on 07/09/2010 by

excerpts from Pelé as a Comedian by Brian Phillips …the beauty created by a great athlete playing a game can help us dream of transcending our own physical limits, can give us the sense, fleetingly, …that our bodies aren’t at … Continue reading →

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