The future of soccer is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed. This May, we’ve seen the full potential of women’s soccer materialize, one good news story at a time. It all happened in the space of one week. On Wednesday, May 19, the U.S. women’s national team announced that they had won their battle for equal pay for men and women in national football teams. … Continue reading How Women Just Conquered Soccer for Good
4 things you can learn from the film Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022) by Nina Menkes After watching this movie, I thought my view of movies would change forever. I thought I would have like new “5D glasses” that would allow me to see through the sexist filters of mainstream cinema. I thought I would now be able to see in color beyond the black and white machismo … Continue reading Big Pervert Brother Is Watching You
The transfers during the two mercatos were very different from each other. Their outcome too. Why? As if the weather had something to do with it, the summer mercato was euphoric during the preseason with some transfers more flashy than others; yet it was much ado about almost nothing. While the winter market was marked by transfers without much fanfare but with already palpable benefits and … Continue reading This Season Was a Tale of Two Mercatos
What is missing in Haiti for economic transformation is the sustained dynamism to move from an economy based on cheap labor to one based on higher productivity activities. Continue reading Why My Country Seems Just Doomed
ars at the end of the year, it’s time to celebrate effort, resilience and progress. Continue reading WHY FOOTBALL NEEDS A GOLDEN PLOT AWARD
Il est bruit que la Ligue des nations rend les équipes européennes plus compétitives qu’auparavant et risque d’élargir l’écart entre leurs niveaux et ceux des équipes des autres régions. Continue reading LA LIGUE DES NATIONS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE SCARY
Qui était George Floyd? Le roman ne répond pas à cette question. Mais il invite à l’enrichir, à prendre cette question par la main pour faire une généreuse promenade avec elle… Continue reading BLUES POUR GEORGE FLOYD ET LE RÊVE AMÉRICAIN
In 2006, Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira went so far as to predict that center forwards would soon lose their raison d’être in tactical formations and that soccer was heading straight for an inevitable 4–6–0 style of play. Continue reading THE UNEXPECTED RETURN OF AN ALMOST LOST POSITION
The entrepreneurship has its modern myths. In the 70s, two guys named Steve started in the chaos of a garage a venture that eventually changed the game in the IT industry. Such is the genesis of Apple. In the 2000s, a student launched a social website just to make fun of his classmates at Harvard University. Then Facebook is born, and the era of social … Continue reading IT TAKES MORE THAN A GARAGE
La migration, c’est… Tu montres dans un train. Tu cherches une place vide où te mettre avant que l’appareil redémarre. Tu trouves d’autres passagers, déjà là, leur valise tout aussi confortable, assise à côté d’eux. Tu as le choix. Soi tu restes debout. Sois tu forces un peu leur politesse. Quelques-uns, volontiers, vous créent de l’espace à côté d’eux. Eux, dejà installés. Toi, le nouveau-venu, … Continue reading QU’EST-CE QUE LA MIGRATION?
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