TAG: soccer
Zinedine Zidane and Authenticity
"Zidane was pissed--who really knows why, or cares?--and he expressed himself directly. Not intelligently or articulately, but directly. That's in stark contrast to 99% of other public figures, and it's made Zidane authentic . . ."
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"What does the new film that follows Zinedine Zidane through the course of a match tell us about the player?"
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Portuguese Football Action Figure
Watch him fall! Again and again and again and again and again.
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"The World Cup is over, Italy is the champion, and it's time for a review of some of the highs and lows of the month-long jamboree."
Put Your Words in Materazzi's Mouth
Brilliant. An advertising agency tests out copywriter's by having them write subtitles for the Zidane headbutt exchange. (You can also just do it for fun and send to a friend.)
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"Zidane's action was . . . less dishonourable, I'd say, than the hundreds of examples of diving, faking, chirping, bickering, bleating and all-round cheating we saw from scores of players throughout Germany 2006"
"His willingness to headbutt Materazzi makes him more of a hero, not less. Admittedly, since France went on to lose, he's something of a tragic hero, but a hero none-the-less."
"I suppose the football fans will be less than pleased with the example that Zinedine set, but a young headbutter really could do no better than to emulate him in every detail."
Zidane blames Materazzi insults
"Sources in France say it is believed Materazzi insulted Zidane's mother."
"There are relatively few universal socially acceptable excuses for interacting with strangers in public spaces, but sport is one of them - useful if you are thinking of use cases for shared viewing of mobile TV for example."
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Video of Zidane's headbutt in the closing minutes of the World Cup finals.
Only practice could make some World Cup players this good at diving.
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Design and the World Cup: what can we learn?
A critique of the 2006 World Cup design.
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The Sins of American Sportscasting
"All these strands together add up to the crisis in American sportscasting that is made evident at every World Cup, when English-speaking fans flee in enormous numbers to listen to commentary in a language they don’t even understand."
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Top Designer Says World Cup Design "Just Embarrassing"
Erik Spiekermann, one of Germany's most respected designers, has been openly critical of the design concept for the 2006 World Cup, from the mascot to the logo. He told DW-WORLD.DE why it hasn't been successful.
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Design. Architecture. Football.
"And it's this tension which is reminiscent of adaptive design ideas discussed here previously; that design isn't the end of the process, but the beginning; that interpretation and improvisation will define the end-product, not the original design."
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Does the World Cup have a lingua franca?
"If a player doesn't happen to share a language with the referee, he might yell in his native language just to convey that he's upset. "Any kind of fellatio comment is inevitably understood," says Alexi Lalas, who was on the U.S. World Cup roster in 1994
"In this article PingMag introduces a cross-section of all sorts of balls: from the official FIFA final ball, to designer balls, DIY balls, soccer ball graphics, football food and the matching bra."
How Brazilian soccer players get their names
How Brazilian soccer players get their names.
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Zidane Un Portrait du 21e Siecle
A movie that follows only Zidane through one Real Madrid game.
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Linotype provides the downlow on what fonts are used on international football (soccer) jerseys.
A pretty cool viral site for the new EA sports Fifa Street game
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