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In the final Round of 32 game, Colombia faces Ghana in Kansas City.
The same criteria apply: support for Palestine; how democratic the country is; which country has the better (totally objective, obviously) music; and which has the more hu...
Cape Verde’s captain, Robert Carlos Lopes.
In Game 15 of 16 in the Round of 32, Argentina faces Cape Verde. The Radical Guide to World Cup Matchups uses four criteria: first, support for Palestine; second, how democratic the country is; th...
In the lead-up to the World Cup, Samuel García, the governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, tried to tie the Netherlands’ fate to that of his party, Movimiento Ciudadano (Citizens’ Movement). García played up the connection between the...
In Game 14 of 16 in the Round of 32 later today, it is Australia vs Egypt. How do they match up in “The Radical Guide to World Cup Matchups”? First, on support for Palestine; second, how democratic are they; third, which country has the bet...
This Substack takes its title from historian Eric Hobsbawm’s observation that “the imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.” To that end, guests are sent 11 questions that explore how sport shapes att...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Sean Jacobs is on the faculty of The New School and is Founder-Editor of Africa is a Country. He has written about football culture for Al Jazeera, Africa Is a Country, The New York Times, The Guardian and Roads and Kingdoms, among others.
freelance journalist, author of a book about capitalism and nativism, now studying the geography of football (soccer) at CUNY
New York, NY
Ivan Pech is a recent graduate from The New School For Social Research. His work has appeared in Africa Is A Country, Michigan Quarterly Review,Public Seminar, among others.
Yékú is a poet and tenured professor at the University of Kansas.
World traveller, writer, photographer.
Atash Nowroozian is a PhD student at SOAS University of London. Her work draws on interdisciplinary approaches to examine colonial formations, and the intersections of power, technology, and resistance in contemporary conflicts.
Ron Krabill is Director of the Global Sport Lab at UW Seattle and Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell. He is a scholar of media, politics, cultural studies, global football, international education, and human rights.
Writing for RLS-NYC on Labor, Sports and Race.
Ashish Malhotra is a journalist based in New York. He is the host of The Soccernomics Podcast and creator of "The Dark Side of The World Cup" series for Zeteo News.
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