When I was a college student in Montpellier, France back in 1981-82, the 1982
World Cup was taking place at several different venues in Spain.

Prior to 1982, most of the soccer/football world had kind of a paternalistic,
condescending view of African Football. You have to remember at that time, that
there were no African players who were [...]

In a busy last day of matches to qualify for the FIFA World Cup, to be played in South Africa in 2010, it would have been nice to discuss the upsets by Greece, Algeria and Slovenia against Ukraine, Egypt and Russia, respectively.
However most soccer fans have been talking about France’s qualifying tie against Ireland at [...]