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				<title><![CDATA[Barcelona Metropolis Feature]]></title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[A Planet Without Football?]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Football is the mirror that most properly reflects the multi-faceted human personality, which is why it has succeeded in becoming an object of desire or reflection of the poetical and the prosaic, the generous and the speculative. Football stadiums are the modern circuses in which an epic is played out of which the footballers are the owners.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 12:21:00 -0200</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Undisputed Media Leadership]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Games have always had a natural extension in the fact that people discuss events with others who have seen them and those who have not. Press, radio, and television have all found football to be a gold mine for their subsistence.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 12:00:00 -0200</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Sport and Power: a Story/Hysteria in Every Club]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Football is the mirror that most properly reflects the multi-faceted human personality, which is why it has succeeded in becoming an object of desire or reflection of the poetical and the prosaic, the generous and the speculative. Football stadiums are the modern circuses in which an epic is played out of which the footballers are the owners.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 11:59:00 -0200</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Healing the Soul to Heal Football]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[A multitude of authors have described the 'capital sins' of a network that is more and more media-centred and less and less sports-centred, sins that have turned the king of sports into an impoverished, aimless religion.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 11:50:00 -0200</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[The Footballer as a Star Product ]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, when clubs sold articles other than membership cards and tickets, they did so on the sly, as it were, and drew no benefit from their infrastructures except on match days. Now clubs have no qualms about squeezing their star players as a multiple source of revenue.
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						<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 11:45:00 -0200</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Running Like Blacks to Live Like Whites]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Anyone who looks at the history of the footballers who have landed in Europe will want to see heroes. But it is a story full of poverty, in the origins of the players and in the relationship they themselves have had with the hope of becoming the greatest in the world.
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						<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 11:40:00 -0200</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[And They Said It Was Just a Game]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Antonio Gómez Rufo wonders why football has become so universal to the point where it has ended up by being regarded as something more than a mere game. They said it was only a game, but the author argues that that is not so.
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						<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:36:00 -0200</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Immovable Support]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Rosa Regŕs describes, on the basis of her personal experience, the collective sentiment aroused by football and finds that the attachment to this sport does not change with the passing of the years.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:36:00 -0200</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Football and Justice]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Juan Villoro reflects on the controversial figure of the referee and concludes that on the field of play not everyone is equal: the footballers play at being gods while the referees play at being men.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:36:00 -0200</pubDate>
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