Tag: Soccer
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Robben Island Prison and Soccer
I have been following the World Cup fairly closely this time around since I lived in South Africa last year. The New York Times has written a wonderful article about Robben Island Prison and the soccer league that developed for the inmates. Here are some pictures from when I visited Robben Island.
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Maybe we should treat all our sports like the World Cup?
In America, we live and die with our sports. On any given Saturday in the fall, if the Nebraska football team loses, chances are you might find a grown man in Omaha weeping on his living room couch. If not, at least you won’t be able to talk to him until Tuesday afternoon. And so […]
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The stories you won’t read about will matter the most.
I used to hate soccer. I thought it was for Europeans who didn’t have the coordination to play American sports. Then I lived in South Africa and was continually schooled by kids half my age who did things with a soccer ball with their feet that I can’t even do with my hands. After a […]
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Soccer is for wimps…try rugby.
Sorry I’ve been silent for a while. In honor of the World Cup that starts June 11, I thought this would be a fitting video — or maybe not so fitting? HT: Abraham Piper
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Joburg Summer Project
Part 8 in a 10 part series. View series intro and index. There are too many pictures from this 5-week period to share them all. These don’t do justice to the wonderful, Christ-filled experience of this mission’s trip!
JAMES PRUCH 