July 1st, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Neymar
There are two personalities I follow in today’s football: Neymar and Mario Balotelli. Balotelli for his skills and social significance as an ethnic minority success story in Italy; Neymar for his skills, facial expressions, and the leadership story surrounding him this year as he fronts a Brazil team hosting the World Cup and although is […]
July 1st, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on (Super) Mario Balotelli
In August 2013, I was in the library and came upon an issue of Sports Illustrated with an intriguing cover. It had a man with arms stretched out. That’s not the interesting part. Below said arms were two columns of carefully placed and carefully worded phrases: He is Italian/He is African. The face of AC […]