World Cup 2014 panel
Authors
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Adjunct Professor of Sport Studies, UC-RISE, University of Canberra
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Associate professor, Centre for Educational Research and Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor and Dean, RMIT University
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Francisco Vargas is a humble taxi driver in Vitória, the capital city of the Espirito Santo state in Brazil. For the past 40 years he has been working at a taxi stand in front of the Estadio da Desportiva…
Goal-line technology is being used at the 2014 World Cup. The first goal confirmed by the system was in the game between France and Honduras. A German company, GoalControl GmbH, won the rights to supply…
For a moment there, the world turned upside down. All over Australia, people thumbed their nose at Saturday routines. Housework was ignored, gym classes were abandoned, shopping left undone. A few cheeky…
I have spent the past week watching the build up to the World Cup from the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. With a population of roughly 250,000, Vanuatu’s men’s team is ranked 190th in the world…
As a FIFA World Cup “tourist” based in Europe, the truly global nature of this game and indeed this event becomes increasingly evident. How do I know this? Everywhere I look there are people dressed in…
My earliest and fondest World Cup memories are from the Mexico tournament in 1970. I was only a toddler, but I remember helping my family decorate the house and streets with national symbols and colours…
World Cup 2014 has aired ominous reservations about the impact of the tournament on social justice in Brazil. Many worry that the poor will pay for the event long after the final whistle, when global eyes…
Supporting a football team is not a rational act. In the face of past experiences and logic there is always the hope that somehow things will be different this time. There is hope that in spite of the…
You might hear or see reference to the World Football Elo Ratings during the 2014 World Cup. The teams opening the World Cup, Brazil and Croatia, have Elo Ratings of 2113 and 1787 respectively. The Elo…
For many Australians the FIFA World Cup appears as a spectacle by and for others. A national passion for the world game is diluted by our other football codes, and our distance, both geographically and…