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Blog /// A Soccer Ball for Good
July 27, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
It’s a good day when you can say you’re helping the world by playing a game of soccer. A new business, the One World Futbol Project, has just released a soccer ball made of closed cell foam—similar to the material in Croc sandals—that the company says will last generations. It won’t deflate, even if you puncture it with a knife, and it’s been tested in many environments…including a lion’s den. The best news is that for every new ball the company sells on its website, it gives a second ball to an NGO, including refugee camps, UN hot spots and inner cities. -
Essay /// Soccer’s Great Debate
June 15, 2010 by Kim Tingley
It’s June, it’s 2010, and for the millions of us who tune in every four years to follow the World Cup, it’s time to start looking ahead to another championship. For most, being prepared probably involves at least three things: casting about for an accommodating friend with cable television; indulging a few private moments of nostalgia—How young we were a quadrennial ago! How much farther we’ve traveled toward the grave!—and provoking at least one fellow viewer (though preferably not the aforementioned TV owner) into a voluble dispute concerning the finer points of tournaments past.Tags: soccer, sportsmanship, rules, competition
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Blog /// Responsible Sporting | Sidelined Parents
May 26, 2009 by Kathy McManus
When parents act irresponsibly, should they get a time-out? A group of soccer parents in Bethesda, Maryland was recently ordered away from the game and exiled to a nearby hill, where they needed binoculars to see their daughters play.Tags: sportsmanship, soccer
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