Bringing Back a Love for the Game

By Anonymous

With money attached to players, they become investments—property. Property worth protecting, nurturing, and developing. If players with scholarships don’t play, then the coaches are wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars. It took me a while to realize that my situation was not actually my fault. In my coach’s eyes, I was no longer of value to them, I was not worth their time/energy to care for and develop. I was not an investment and therefore no longer important.

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Polluting the Beautiful Game

By Devin Torossian

The “beautiful sport” truly is beautiful. It brings families, communities, and enemies together all in support of a favorite team, but at the same time it also causes great harm to families, societies, and environments. Unfortunately, we rarely hear of these communities because they do not directly impact us. This is due to our current global ideology of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism takes away the purity of our beautiful game and fills it with a dirty and polluted business opportunity.

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