Hoang Thi Phuong Trinh, called Trinh by her friends, began participating in Football For All in Vietnam when she signed up for her school’s football club at 14 years old. “The more I play football, the more I love this game,” says Trinh, “That love keeps me with FFAV until today.” Soon after joining, she […]
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Soccer in Kosovo forms Friendships
Soccer in Kosovo forms Friendships
Story From: Nick DeSantis, Belchertown, MA My name is Nick DeSantis. I am a rising senior at St. Lawrence University, where I am a Philosophy and Government double-major, and soccer has always been a big part of my life. While studying in Kosovo as part of a Denmark study abroad program in 2013, soccer allowed […]
Cry the Beloved (Soccer) Country on the Fourth of July
Cry the Beloved (Soccer) Country on the Fourth of July
Much, probably too much, has been made of Ann Coulter’s “j’accuse” on soccer, the metric system, and any person or phenomenon not born and bred in the land she claims to love. Writing in jest and obvious haste, the conservative pundit construes the world’s most popular game as the province of elite mothers anxious to […]
Grassroot Soccer
Grassroot Soccer
There are 34 million people living with HIV in the world. Sixty nine percent of these live in sub-Saharan Africa. Roughly 50% of these are unaware they have the virus. HIV not only affects individuals, but their communities. HIV is %100 preventable however social stigma against the disease presents a roadblock to HIV education, testing, […]