Soccer – The Hour of History

89 Days – Reflections on a World Cup

by StevenBlog Posts December 18, 2022No Comments

In a couple minutes the 2022 Qatar World Cup Final will kick off. I had a lot of fun watching it, especially with the energetic way my community followed the matches. It was nice to have a winter competition and helped through the more challenging days of winter. That said, I can’t help but to …

Soccer is History

by StevenBlog Posts, General Notes, Teaching Resources December 6, 2021December 6, 2021No Comments

When I was at Temple University I taught a class called the Global History of Soccer. It was mostly a class on globalization, a world history class, that focused on how one can see history through soccer. Students liked the course and it was a great primer for the 2018 World Cup. I still use …