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When The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly VERONA, Italy -- Right up until he started quoting Hitler and dropping N-bombs, my new friend was a great dude. I'll call him The Hooligan. A more generous host would be hard to find. Soon after we met, he made sure we stopped at the one place in town that served Campari correctly. He speaks eight languages, and seemed nothing like the Hellas Verona fans I'd read about, the neo-fascist, neo-Nazi, racist thugs. The Hooligan insisted the Veronese just have a dark sense of humor and refuse to wear the yoke of modern political correctness. Now we are headed toward the terraces of the stadium. "How about, 'You're a f---ing n-----'?" Lost in the Pontine Marshes Enlarge Benito Mussolini in 1936. This story is about a red motorcycle. The ghost of Mussolini rides through the swampland he turned into farms, the sound of his bike's engine going tom-tom-tom in the dark. Pennacchi lectures me that American democracy is not morally superior. "You are simplifying!" "Balotelli is an asshole," he says.
Association football Team sport played with a spherical ball Internationally, association football is governed by FIFA. Under FIFA, there are six continental confederations: AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, and UEFA. Of these confederations, CONMEBOL is the oldest one, being founded in 1916. National associations (e.g. Name Association football is one of a family of football codes that emerged from various ball games played worldwide since antiquity. The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. History Kicking ball games arose independently multiple times across multiple cultures. The Cambridge rules, first drawn up at the University of Cambridge in 1848, were particularly influential in the development of subsequent codes, including association football. Football is played at a professional level all over the world. Gameplay Laws Players, equipment, and officials
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