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• German Mimicry (Bayern 1-0 Madrid)

  

  This work is in some respects (especially after his blunders in the title-decider against Dortmund) one of Jupp Heynckes’s most attractive and accomplished... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Calcio and the Linceans (Back to Field Notes)

  

  North American Species of the Genus Catocala, New York, 1918{A few days ago I looked through an optical tube of marvelous clarity, and was astonished by what I... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Mario Balotelli—A Self-Consuming Artifact

  

  (Photograph of the author, Venice Biennale 2007)This pattern of Balotelli’s excesses is by now so frequent and familiar that it constitutes a mannerism. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• The Return of Kaká, Or Soccer Mating

  

  While mockery and pyramiding shapes are dominating symbols in Mourinho’s work, brought to sharper focus by their steady inclusion in the footballing landscapes... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Valderrama’s Southern-Sounding Cabeza

  

  The strongest interconnection between Colombia and soccer passes through Carlos Valderrama and his mass of blonde hair. They were permed, as if to accelerate... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Maradona/Messi: A Glossary of Ideas

  

  A learned glossary of these two exceptional players, fashioned in the manner of Flaubert. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Whirrrr. Moser in Verona, 1984

  

  Early one summer, walking around the Vigorelli Velodrome in Milan, north of the historical Fairground, between the cluttering noise of Viale Teodorico, a... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Emphasis. Moser at Roubaix, 1979

  

  Identifying bona fide brazen cycling heroes in the muddy cobbles of the Paris-Roubaix requires some precision, unless you are reporting on that behemoth... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Editor’s Picks: Patterns Leaping into Focus

  

  City Heaven, Imre KinszkiAfew years ago, still operating under the dazzling, jackknifed hand of David Mitchell, English novelists seemed to enjoy a... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Hustle and Flow: On Car Racing

  

  Some cars are like a caravan hotel, back to the time where we mostly traveled as a family, and round-trip journeys took up to six hours; you would be sitting... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Hemispheres (L.A. Galaxy 3-1 D.C. United)

  

  It’s probably not worthy getting on this as a tactical case-study (fascinating as it is, this 3-1 merely inverts the same result suffered by the Galaxy against... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Drowned Nativity (Chelsea 4-1 Napoli)

  

  This is one of the matches that keep playing and replaying in the minds of the protagonists, as if on a magnetic loop or under the dome of a planetarium (an... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• The Comma Sutra (Bayern 7-0 Basel)

  

  Clang, clang, clang. Seeking, sicking, a gaping symphony of intersecting lines. Bayern is scoring goals in the way pigeons are cooing on the suspended wire of a... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Landscape Management (CSKA 2-2 Zenit)

  

  Try to escape to a lakeside gem in the Catskill Mountains, at a farm-bound intersection where no one is zagging since not even a zig was required, and you’d hav... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Personal Best (Man Utd 2-3 Athletic Bilbao)

  

  Judging from the statuary posture of Alex Ferguson at the end of the game, stony like the guest of the final banquet in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Marcelo Bielsa ha... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Harmless Adventures of a Cyberflâneur

  

  According to Sherry Turkle, author of The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, there are three stages in the subcultures of AI, hacking and... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Benjamin and Soccer (A Russian Tableaux)

  

  The full force of a panorama of soccer and modernity opening to Walter Benjamin in Moscow. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Blogging After the Zonal Marking Hype

  

  I. Plasma Grenades: A Post-Homeric OverviewAt the beginning of January, in the bookshop of Terminal 2 at JFK airport in New York, I looked for a soccer... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Letter to a Jumble of 50,831 Media Bites

  

  READ THE PREVIOUS LETTER HEREMy Dear Reader.The graces of writing and conversation are of different kinds, though many strive to be equally successful in one an... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• If Renaissance History Were Soccer (or Vice Versa)

  

  I. Geopolitical ShapesIf Renaissance Italy was a soccer team, the formation would be, roughly, the 3—5—2. In the defense, from the south, the Kingdom of... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2012 CULTURE, LIFESTYLE, SOCCER, SPORTS