soccer & human rights

After a while – two years to be exact – returning to the issue of soccer & human rights ahead of the World Cup in South Africa. The NYTimes has a piece on the history of soccer in the host country. As one interviewee describes it, soccer “was a way to keep us out of trouble, a form of freedom, a chance to meet people from different areas.” The piece highlights the repercussions of Apartheid one-and-a-half decades after its end as “complicated.”  Tellingly, South Africa had four different federations: for blacks, whites, Indians and the so-called coloreds.