Bend It Like Wambach
Women’s soccer is playing for keeps on and off the field—a dispatch from the Women’s World Cup.
2018 Primetime Emmy
& James Beard Award Winner
Women’s soccer is playing for keeps on and off the field—a dispatch from the Women’s World Cup.
Brazil may be the spiritual homeland of global soccer. But its women have had to fight hard just to be taken seriously as footballers in their home country. One group—the Guerreiras—is helping lead the charge.
What happens if the place where you live isn’t regarded as a nation by FIFA? You start your own federation.
Philosopher Simon Critchley on the spectacle, poetry and importance of professional football.