Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Far removed from today’s global juggernaut, soccer was born in the well-heeled boarding schools of 19th-century England

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par Thomas Adam, Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas

Over the past two centuries, soccer – or football, as it is called in much of the English-speaking world – has become a truly global phenomenon that connects fans on all continents. It is also, come World Cup time, a deeply nationalist affair that pits teams and their fans from various countries against each other.

Yet today’s deeply competitive…

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