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...field in Moscow on May 21 for the final of UEFA's Champions League, Europe's biggest club competition, its West London roots were all but invisible. A Czech goalie backed up a Portuguese central defender. Players from France and Germany marshaled Chelsea's midfield. The lone striker was from Ivory Coast. In all, of the 11 players who kicked off that game at the Luzhniki Stadium, only four were English...
...much to go on, but Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Poland's Prime Minister in 1991, suggests Tusk can make the most of it. He has known Tusk since the two men were Solidarity activists in the 1980s, and they still play old-timers football together. "Tusk is pure striker," says Bielecki, now CEO of Bank Pekao, one of Poland's biggest financial institutions. "He is not a water boy or even central defender. He puts his head where others will only put their feet. And by that I mean that he has courage...
...remember is that when I fell, I looked down at my foot and it had turned the other way. The rest is just a blank.' EDUARDO DA SILVA, striker for English soccer team Arsenal, on the horrific, season-ending broken ankle he suffered after being tackled during a Feb. 24 match against Birmingham...
...point. Although Saturday's insults were a new phenomenon for Formula One racing, Spanish soccer has an unfortunate recent history of spectator racism. In 2004, Spanish national team coach Luis Aragonés publicly applied the same "negro de mierda" epithet to Arsenal striker Thierry Henry and Spanish fans bellowed monkey chants at black players in a "friendly" match between Spain and England later that year. FIFA fined the Spanish Football Federation $77,000 on that occasion. In 2006, FC Barcelona's Cameroon-born striker Samuel Eto'o walked off the field in protest after Zaragoza fans repeated the noises...
Last spring, Harvard undergraduates staged a hunger strike to protest the wages of University security guards. One of their number, striker Kelly L. Lee ’07. told the Crimson she often wondered: “Am I doing the right thing? Is this the most effective strategy?” Good questions. Unfortunately, she evidently arrived at the wrong conclusion. The severity of the hunger strike as a tool of political protest cannot be overstated; It ought to only be employed in matters of proportional gravity. By this criterion, the 10-day strike initiated by Columbia undergraduates, which...