Ο γύρος του κόσμου με ένα σομπρέρο

Latin American football

Elaith / No comments / 28 September 2023

Football reaches the heights of the Andes

Two thousand eight hundred and eighty. That’s the number of meters that separate Iruya from sea level, up there in the Andes. Yet, it’s not just the altitude, a bit lower than the summit of Mount Olympus for comparison, that makes it different. La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, sits at 3,640 meters. Its uniqueness […]

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Elaith / No comments / 25 August 2023

The football theory of the two opposites

No matter how systems change and football evolves, we often return to its primal questions. Spectacle or outcome? Victory or good football? If the eternal battle between good and evil, spirit and matter, light and darkness could be transposed onto football, then the main role in football’s… Manichaeism would be played by the duo of […]

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SOMBRERO

When a football player "chips" the ball over an unsuspecting opponent's head and then retrieves it by passing it behind them. According to Latin Americans, the term originates from the trajectory formed by the ball's path in the air and the player's movement around their opponent. The shape resembles a "sombrero"!

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