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A man who has any "feminine" traits is "poco hombre": boys who dislike soccer, men who enjoy the opera or express unmanly feelings such as sadness or tenderness, husbands who help with the housework or tend to their children, are considered effeminate.
As a psychotherapist specializing in homosexuality, I have been consulted many times by anxious parents terrified that their little boy is gay (at age five!): he likes to play with dolls, enjoys the company of girls, refuses to play soccer.
But once you take to soccer, you become obsessed with it.
And, to make matters worse, the French soccer team, whose World Cup victory in 1998 gave his predecessor Jacques Chirac a short respite and a passing popularity boom, was humiliated in June’s Euro championship.
But, instead of buying villas, yachts, or soccer clubs abroad, he invested his fortune in Russia.
Few doubt Brazil’s primacy when it comes to soccer.
In both football (soccer) and politics, the country had come to embody an unseemly mixture of arrogance and denial.
Intriguingly, some of the most important insights into the causes of MND – and thus how it can be treated – have been gained through observations of natives of the remote Pacific island of Guam and Italian soccer players.
Another valuable clue about MND emerged in 1998, when a large-scale investigation into illicit drug use in Italian soccer inadvertently revealed a shockingly high incidence of ALS among professional and semi-professional players in Italy.
It turns out that professional soccer players are ten times more likely to suffer from MND.
But, two years ago when the Korean soccer football association hired the Dutchman, Guus Hiddink, to coach the Korean national soccer team, Hiddink made it clear that he would select his players based on merit alone.
The accumulation of gradual changes that have already occurred in Korean society made it acceptable to import a westerner to coach the Korean national soccer team and to allow him to establish a meritocratic regime.
A soccer team is a relatively simple organization.
The same is true of football (soccer): Who would go to watch a group of people kicking a ball around a field if it wasn’t all about winning or losing?
The Politics of Self-Destruction in PeruPeru's President Alejandro Toledo has invented a new extreme sport, a soccer game in which he is the sole player.
Four Lessons from Egypt’s World Cup ExperienceLAGUNA BEACH – Egypt’s national soccer team rode to Russia for their first World Cup finals in 28 years on a wave of lofty expectations and potent fan enthusiasm.
They are now returning home having lost all of their games – no small disappointment for a country that takes both soccer and national pride very seriously.
Indeed, it risks obscuring important lessons that can help not just Egypt, but also other emerging economies, to fulfill their considerable potential – and not just in soccer.
Egyptians’ enduring hope for their soccer team after Salah’s injury was not rooted in the knowledge that there was some other secret weapon waiting to dazzle the crowd.
That does not work in soccer, nor does it work in business, policymaking, or just about any other field.
That is as true for soccer as it is for many other pursuits, from business processes to technology.
In fact, the lessons learned from this disappointment can be applied well beyond soccer – and well beyond Egypt.
The current mood reminds me of the atmosphere that briefly prevailed in France in July 1998, after “Les Tricolores” triumphed over Brazil in the final of the soccer World Cup.
This will lead to a further escalation of Western sanctions: restrictions on gas exports, general export restrictions, suspension from the World Trade Organization, withdrawal of the FIFA 2018 World Cup soccer tournament, and so on.
The carrot is needed because there is great social value in discovering, for example, that cut flowers, or soccer balls, or computer software can be produced at low cost, because this knowledge can orient the investments of other entrepreneurs.
And, the grand scale aside, Russia is hardly the only country where Olympic sports, Formula One racing (also to take place later this year in Sochi), or World Cup soccer is a boon for larceny and graft.
Over and over, whether it is in Brazil or Qatar preparing for the soccer World Cup, or the Olympic Games held in oppressive and authoritarian societies, the same contradiction becomes apparent.
What cuisine is to the French, soccer is to Brazilians: a matter of the highest national pride.
Rio de Janeiro is where soccer belongs.
A long-serving editor of the British Sun newspaper, for example, was recently dismissed for a column making a racist comparison between a soccer player and a gorilla.
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