Soccer Politics / The Politics of Football

This semester, students in UVA’s “Soccer Politics” class produced a range of digital projects focused on this summer’s tournaments. You can explore them through the links below. Many of t...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2024/05/28/class-projects-from-the-university-of-virginia-on-the-summer-2024-copa-america-euros-olympics/

I have now moved to the University of Virginia, where I taught Soccer Politics for the first time this Fall. We delighted in the fact that the World Cup actually happened during the class, and ha...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2022/12/06/class-projects-on-qatar-world-cup-from-the-university-of-virginia/

I’ve gotten various requests for my syllabi for the Soccer Politics class I teach at Duke University. I’ve posted the “itinerary” from Spring 2020 with the readings and movies we watch be...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/08/29/soccer-politics-class-spring-2020/

https://sites.duke.edu/mlsvscls/ This is the link to Tony Davis, Emir Ozsuer and Will von Guionneau’s final project in which we compare the economic approaches taken by the MLS and CSL and prov...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/05/01/final-project-a-match-of-leagues-mls-vs-csl/

Le championnat des Pay-Bas de football vient d’annuler la saison sans déclarer un champion. Les Néerlandais croient que jouer les matches seront impossible avant du début de la prochaine sai...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/04/30/lannulation-des-championnats/

Last summer when I moved to Georgia for a summer internship, I became involved in a project with my cousins to highlight urban soccer in a way that hasn’t been done before. It is common to come...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/04/29/kleats-soccer/

*Re-post* The possible Invincibles season is over! With Liverpool being my favorite team, it was exciting to watch this incredible run and I am disappointed, but it isn’t the end of the world. ...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/04/29/liverpool-fc-invincibles-no-more/

Dans Under the Lights and In the Dark: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer, ancienne joueuse de foot à Duke Gwendolyn Oxenham met en lumière les obstacles inimaginables que les femmes du monde e...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/04/27/sous-les-lumieres-et-dans-lobscurite-mon-experience-en-inde-en-tant-que-jeune-fille-03-24-20/

Nous parlons souvent de la façon dont le domaine sportif récupère certains aspects du domaine politique pour envoyer un message puissant. Sócrates et les Corinthiens et leurs slogans pro-dém...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/04/27/le-football-comme-outil-politique-argentine-et-la-coupe-du-monde-1978-02-20-20/

La domination internationale de l’équipe nationale féminine américaine est tellement complète qu’il semble qu’elle a toujours été : quatre titres de Coupe du monde, quatre médailles ...

https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/04/27/par-tete-et-par-coeur-comment-abby-wambach-a-sauve-equipe-nationale-feminine-americaine-02-13-20/