The beautiful game: dispatches from the hill

 

Reasons behind the Soccer Blog

What do you get when you combine the minds of a French physicist, an Irish physicist and a New Yorker social historian? You get an interdisciplinary adventure into all facets of soccer. Although their fields of study range from nanoscience to gravitational waves to Einstein to navigating labor and social relations in African territories, these faculty share one thing in common: they geek out over soccer, and it’s awesome …
https://news.uark.edu/articles/64876/fulbright-faculty-and-honors-college-team-up-to-launch-interdisciplinary-soccer-blog

 

Part I of the Six Princes of Austria-Hungary: Árpád, Hugo and Matthias

 

From the Ballon d’Or to the Presidency of Liberia

 

Does “Mens sana in corpore sano’’ apply to soccer players?

 

The 1960 Scandal

 

Was it Destiny or Fate?

 

Studying Soccer Statistics: an Interview with Dr. José Luis Pierrend

 

The True Strategist from Corsica

 

Michels mes Beaux: The Beatles Were Almost Right

 

The Parallel Universes of Football and Football 

 

The Moses of Football 

 

Football 101: the Game’s Gear and Equipment

 

From Squirrels to Cheetahs: the Changing Names of the Benin National Team

 

How Soccer can Save the Soul of a Nation: Nigeria’s Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympics

 

The Women’s World Cup Through the Eyes of Thucydides, Gide and Aragon 

 

The Foot of the Angels

 

The Laurent 5 

 

Where Was King Richard III When You Needed Him?