Football Nomad

The group stages have concluded and we are left with four tasty quarter-finals at the World Cup. The final round of group fixtures were full of excellent matches and lead to a couple of surprising results. The pick of the bunch was England’s 2-0 victory over Japan which, coupled with Germany’s thrilling 4-2 win over [...]

The Women’s World Cup just keeps getting better. No post yesterday, as I spent a large portion of my time collecting a friend from the airport and showing him around Ye Olde Berlin town. As a result, I must make a quick comment on the action from Group D before I focus on what proved [...]

The 2011 Women’s World Cup snuck up on me in the best possible way. It began with a Sunday afternoon spent hanging out in Berlin with my friend Léo. He flicked on the TV, France were playing Nigeria and being both a big football fan and French, he encouraged me to sit down and watch. [...]

“Refait” is a remake of the football World Cup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match is carefully reconstructed: players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. [...]

So far the FN:2010 web-documentary has seen Patrick and I travel to London, Munich and Paris. Yet while the compilation videos of our time in each of these cities have given a wonderful impression of how each culture appreciates the game, we have not been able to capture everything that we have wanted in these [...]