The Global Game II

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 The children playing, 11- and 12-year-olds, have met for a friendly match on a
Saturday afternoon. The sun is scorching and the ground hot to the touch. The
play is even hotter: elbows, knees bumps and shoves. But between the clashes th
ere is real skill: beautifull passes, deft little pivots, nimble dashes down t-
he sideline and even overhead scissor kicks, hard landings be damned.

 "When the boys are playing it's too fine," says Believer Mahame, 46, who watc-
hes from the sideline, a shortwave radio turned to Chelsea-Manchester United
pinned to his ear. "When they are young they play pure football. It's beautiful
."


 Take that little scene-a man watching children play with a ball, as technology
links him to a game in Europe-and sprinkles it all over Africa, from the slums
of Lagos to hte beaches of Senegal and the Congo jungle. Then extend it over t-
he oceans, to the favelas of Rio and Sao Paulo, to manicured fields in the sub-
urban U.S., parks in China, school playgrounds in India, to dusty streets, a
concrete space under a highway  overpass, to any patch of ground vaguely level
enough to mark out a field of play.

 And think for a minute what that magically distributed monent means. The game
-the simple game, the beautiful game- has become the global game. On July 9, a-
round one person in five on the planet-more than 1 billion people- will be wat-
ching the same images on TV, as the final of the 2006 football World Cup is pl-
ayed in Berlin. That will mark a new monent in world history. Never before has
there been a single event which so united the interest and affection of so many
-rich and poor, African and Asian, Islamic and Christian, black and white and
every other hue in which humankind comes.


 How did this happen? And what can we learn from it? These aren't trivial ques-
tions; understand why football has grown and you'll understand the modern world
at least as well as you would by studying global markets and geopolitics. It m-
ay or may not always be beautifull, but football is a lot more than a game.





馬的好長!!!一看也知道這是在介紹足球.
我從Time上面節錄下來的,有想試試看的可以自己嘗試翻譯!

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