Posts under ‘Football and Development’

No Money, No Degree
Yesterday I got some expected but difficult news, my research team was not successful in its Templeton Grant application. The understanding that I have with my current department is that I can stay with them as long as I am able to secure enough money for a studentship (to be able to [...]

Fooboligy
Did i ever mention that I have the coolest job in the world? Well, not the coolest… I can think of a few other things that I would love to do, but that aside i love my studies and my job. This past week I have been feeling rather sick, so sick that i have [...]

No Respect, No Game
The FA has decided to introduce ‘respect barriers’ as a way to help fans, players and coaches improve the quality of the game for everyone. I watched a short interview about this program this morning on news and was impressed that associations and companies are starting to think outside the pitch when [...]

Growth?
What does football (soccer) need in order to continue to grow and be able to accommodate more people around the world? My first thought is ‘money’, but let me share with you a fruit of knowledge I learned during the last 3 years studying football, money can not buy growth in itself. What football needs [...]

Sometime in the early hours of this morning, a new chapter in history was started with a beautiful introduction: Obama. Yes We Can. As I am studying to become a medical scientist with specialization in football, I thought it appropriate that I blog about how this will effect football.
In Patrick Goldstein’s article “Would Obama’s election [...]