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The FIFA World Cup Party – Fight for your rights to work hard for you

It is just before midnight on a warm summer night when a large group of drunken and raucous Mexican fans approach some local policemen on a street in Moscow. The expressions on the Russian law enforcement officers’ faces are stern and alert, and their stance shows...

A Modern Pilgrimage: European Soccer’s Renewed Quest for American Followers

There is a modern-day pilgrimage in progress in America — a phenomenon University of Michigan economics professor and co-author of “Soccernomics” Stefan Szymanski refers to with tongue-in-cheek as “colonization.” The pursuit is not of religious freedom, fertile land...