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There is a sense of disbelief when you consider how Corinthians were relegated to the B division. What happened to this proud club? The first club founded by the working masses and the most successful of the Paulista clubs. Corinthians were the countervail to the dominant upper crust British soccer culture of yore were in the forefront of the movement that rebelled against the autocratic military regimes of the 70s and saw its lifelong supporter. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva aka Lula elected as the president of Brazil. The club with its estimated 30 million supporters comprise the electoral base of the Workers Party. Socrates the wondrous midfielder who captained the 1986 Brazil team and the most iconic Corinthian player once said about his club. "they are not a team with supporters but supporters with a team". Socrates and team mates Wladimir and Walter Casagrande formed Corinthians Democracy a players movement within the club that rebelled against the suffocating paternalistic culture prevalent in Brazilian soccer which dictated not only how they played but how they lived their lives. A phenomenon Alex Bellos calls or loosely translated "bring together the troops" a microcosm of the authoritarian nature of the military regimes that subjugated the citizenry. The movement was a democratic exercise where players voted on simple daily tasks that affected them like when to take lunch or what time to turn in. 'We decided everything by consensus,' says Sócrates. But it was not just simple decisions that made Corinthians Democracy a byword in Brazilian soccer history it was its political role in actively bringing down the military dictatorship. Players voted to wear shirts with 'Vote on the Fifteenth' written on them and bringing huge "Democracia" banners to the pitch. As a sports icon Socrates was very aware that players like him could play a seminal role in arousing the masses to direct action. A very well read man (he was also a medical doctor). Socrates used anarcho-syndicalistic principles which first organized workers rights in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He. In 1982 and 1983. Corinthians won the Paulista championship beating Sao Paulo. During those years the last military dictator Jose Figueirado declared that he was committed to opening up Brazil to democracy but government hardliners responded with a series of bombings. Figueirado's failure to bring the guilty to justice coupled with rising inflation stagnating wages and increasing debt led to the public's determination to see the end of military rule. In 1984 in an impressive display millions of Brazilians took to the streets in all the major cities demanding a direct vote (diretas já! ) in the choice of the next president. In 1985 military rule finally ended with Jose Sarney a civilian and a former ally of Figueirado coming to power. During those tumultuous last years. Lula as one of the leaders of the Workers Party was at the forefront of the diretas ja! movement imprisoned for organizing massive workers strikes protesting the pitiful wages. So when in 2002 Lula finally became the president millions of working class Brazilians rejoiced to see one of their own elected. The former shoeshine boy was one of them. In addition he was a Corinthians supporter who liked nothing better than relaxing with his friends and colleagues playing the beautiful game. Ironically in soccer mad Brazil. Lula is an exception a leader the first in three decades with a genuine love for the game. So it was befitting that his first Presidential act was to take on the cartolas the corrupt club establishments. Bellos "The sport is run by a network of unaccountable largely corrupt figures known as cartolas or "top hats" who have become obscenely wealthy while the domestic football scene is broke and demoralised. The public plundering of football is a constant and very visible reminder of the country's failings." Joao Havelange the former CBF and FIFA president is one of the major beneficiaries of this system. In 1998 following the embarrassing defeat of the Brazilian team to France in the World Cup final a series of investigations into the dealings of the cartolas was launched. A temporary law was passed which demanded greater financial accountability. With Lula in power the fire and brimstone Law of Moralisation in Sport became permanent. In place too was a bill of rights for soccer fans. The bill contained an important statute which mandated that the CBF (the Brazilian FA) would hold at least one national competition in which "teams know before it begins how many games they will play and who their opponents will be." As banal as it appears to be this statute addressed the hitherto arbitrary nature of the Brazilian domestic league. The cartolas in cahoots with the military dictators used the league to serve their narrow economic and political ends by changing relegation rules every season to keep favoured teams on top. Lula was quick to realize that all through Brazil's democratization the cartolas themselves had not reformed and with these populist measures used the public dissatisfaction with these cartolas to cement his place in the heart of the ordinary soccer fan. In Brazil where soccer is life itself. Garrastazu Medici the military dictator used the euphoria surrounding the 1970s World Cup win to push the most repressive of measures. Of course the CBF and their acolytes the cartolas fought back immediately announcing a suspension of the league. But Corinthians on whose board Lula sits as a lifetime director supported his reform measures. With Corinthians and Lula standing firm the threat collapsed within 48 hours and the league resumed its matches. The cartolas were defeated and their pernicious influence on the game shaken. The last authoritarian structure in Brazil was given notice by Lula and the Corinthians. Thus it is in this prism that the MSI and Corinthian association should be viewed. A Faustian bargain that virtually cedes all financial control to MSI in exchange for some high priced players. A very nebulous relationship which has already led to arrest warrants issued by a Brazilian judge for Kia Joorabchian and Boris Berezovsky former partners of MSI on money laundering charges. Former Corinthian president Alberto Dualib resigned after it was discovered that he was the recipient of huge MSI payouts. In the two years since winning the 2005 Brasiliero title. Corinthians had morphed into a MSI money laundering front and the promised Galacticos that would put a stranglehold on the title never arrived as MSI's assets were frozen. Less than a fortnight ago. Corinthians were relegated as they drew Gremio. Relegation was the end of a "chronicle of a tragedy foretold," Juca Kfouri one of Brazil's most respected sports analysts and an ardent Corinthians fan said in his column in the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. He blamed Dualib and the board of directors for giving the club away to unscrupulous operators. So where was Lula in all of this as his club now struggles with relegation and financial debt estimated at $56 million? Surely. Lula with his worker class background a champion of workers rights a lifelong activist against entrenched power structures would have disavowed this arrangement. But it is no secret that the is the IMFs best friend a neo-liberal champion with his overriding priority being free market programs and the flight of international capital into Brazil ostensibly to alleviate poverty. He was elected on a platform which promised land reform eradicating illiteracy promoting health creating jobs and building houses which he has largely neglected. It would be a fair to conclude that Lula's neo-liberal policies must have encouraged the Corinthians board to throw in their lot with MSI and to welcome foreign private investment into improving the club and attracting players like Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano. For a while it worked even though the board knew this arrangement was a double edged sword. MSI could not keep their. And a club that once fought the authoritarianism of military rule and supported transparency in soccer was left clutching at straws.

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What game was this? I was at the England vs Croatia UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifier match at Wembley Stadium in London. Wait act before you check out of this thinking. “Oh this is just a soccer post. I am not reading this,” construe on a bit. I am a soccer fan yes but not one of those ones that thinks that if you don’t like soccer you must be a sporting Quasimodo. So hang with this. I am going to try to describe the entire game experience in a narrative create with my comments interspersed. Hopefully part of this ordain reveal why soccer is so popular worldwide-I have a theory on this that I will present later. We (Me my friend Steve the Viking and his friend Branwell who is English) left Oxford around 2:15 pm (KO was at 8pm) and caught the train down to Paddington. From there we rode the furnish Bakerloo line north to Wembley Central station which is very small – this will be important later. A few notes on the location of the stadium – Wembley is in northwest London well out of Clark Griswold territory (“be kids. Parliament. Big Ben”). I have been to London tons of times but undergo almost always restricted myself to those areas most frequented by loud Americans and photo-mad Asians. After all. I have no reason to go to Finsbury Park or Ealing. Hillingdon or any of those boroughs. So the foray to Wembley would be to areas of the city that I had not seen. It’s not in a bad neighborhood; just not someplace you would go without a specific reason for being there. We emerged from the Tube station to be staring at a Tennessee Fried Chicken restaurant. Tennessee? Steve was somewhat tempted but we decided against giving it a try with its special blend of 12 herbs and spices passed down by the Major. We continued and happened upon a pub entered and bought a few beers. The pub was filling with English fans object for one quarter where there was a small Croatian contingent. As OH molecules were consumed the Croatians began to get vocal the English got restless and we got the hell out of there. It seemed mostly good natured but with English soccer fans you never really experience. From there we headed over to Wembley Stadium. The whole area was filled with soccer fans milling about drinking singing and generally getting good and lubed for the game. We got to the stadium about 6:15 or so and were in our seats for 6:30. 90 minutes before kickoff. This didn’t reach me. I desire to get to games early to watch the players change up to get a good look at the pitch and at the stadium and just generally to soak up the atmosphere that comes from a big sporting event. This was different from going to for dilate an NBA or NFL game because of the national aspect of the be. This was England playing against Croatia two nations two populations two historic powers… er ok. 1 historic power and one nation created by the UN less than 20 years ago. Our seats were in the upper tier the third but the first row of that tier. As such they were great seats. We were alter above one of the corners the right command as you faced the goal at that end of the stadium. We had an excellent believe of the entire handle. I knew that international soccer matches are a big deal in England and who hasn’t heard of English soccer hooligans being banned from other countries? But I hadn’t really given it much thought before Wednesday. But English fans alcohol the national soccer team and the nostalgia for long-gone empire are a combustible mixture a fact that became clearer just before the kick-off. The Croatian contingent was sitting below us and too the right divided into two sections. Many were wearing their red and white checked gear and they were very vocal before the game. I found that interesting because their team was first in the assort and had already qualified for the Euro finals next summer and so the game was essentially meaningless. England on the other hand needed a draw to guarantee themselves a sight in the finals. It was also a poorly kept secret that if England did not get the draw and answer that their coach. Steve McClaren would be fired. The English fans reacted to the Croatians vocal give with some chants of “Who are ya?” and “Vindaloo”(Wikipedia entry ; Original video ; and Video of English fans signing it ). English football chants are different from American sports chants. Whereas Americans are tempted to spell out the team name (J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets!) arrange some meaningless words together (Rammer Jammer color beat. Give ‘em hell. Alabama) or bemock one particular opponent in song (“Saw Varsity’s horns off). English chants be much more often to be in song create. change surface a repetitive sing of “who are ya” is sort of melodic. The second major difference is the complete lack of rhythm in these chants. change surface in “who are ya” which could be a simple staccato three count encourage (Who. Are. You. tell) English fans kind of do with a sing-songy style in which none of them are really saying it at the same time. And the culmination of the Vindaloo sing is where English fans yell: “We’re gonna score one more than you!” Methinks that if this was an American chant it would be something like “We’re gonna advance 10 more than you!” But the English only aim to barely win. I anticipate. Then we came to the national anthems. The Croatian national anthem was first. And the English fans booed it. Lustily. Paradigms of enlightenment and tolerance these English. And it is ironic that Americans are viewed by the English as weirdly patriotic but when one glances around during “God Save the Queen” at an England soccer be one notices that everyone is singing. Belting it out really. Eyes closed triple-forte really letting it go. One other pregame note – the starting lineups were introduced and Croatia’s went like this: Vidic. Biblic. Olic. Cilic. Kranjcar. Sivic and da Silva. Huh? Croatia strikes again. Eduardo da Silva (born in that far-flung Croatian province called Brazil) breaks remove slots a go to Olic who slides it past Carson in the 14th minute. The mood in the stadium is now downright color. Angry. Vengeful. Except for the red and color checked section below us and to the right. They are jubilant to put it mildly. Halftime passes in a futile examine for a men’s room that isn’t mobbed by pissed English fans pissing. We go to our seats for the second half. There are two substitutions for England. Jermaine Dafoe comes in for Barry and Shaun Wright-Phillips is replaced by David Beckham. This last introduction elicits a huge roar from the crowd as the blond Mr alter is still viewed as a savior. And early in the back up half it seemed that the subs had given the team life. Dafoe was dragged down in the box and a penalty was awarded. stamp Lampard banged it home and the English fans came to life. Now they just needed that one goal to tie it. A little later in the 65th minute. Beckham one-touched a perfect cross from the right side onto the chest of Peter Crouch who chested it down and put it in the back of the net. And here we get to my theory about why soccer is so popular. It has three principle components: The most important part is that goals are rare and when they come about it is so fast and so unexpected that the joy that results is nothing short of orgasmic. There is no description of the joy that overcomes fans when their aggroup scores. I undergo been at College football games when last second touchdowns and field goals are scored seen last minute baskets in both college and NBA games domiciliate runs in baseball just about all of it. But nothing compares to the 30 seconds after Crouch’s goal went in. People jump up emit wildly while waving their arms as if they are having some sort of seizure with no thought of anyone around them at all. And it was true the Croatians were silent. But only for 12 minutes until Petric put a shot past Carson into the side-netting to put Croatia up 3-2. The last 15 minutes of the match passed relatively uneventfully with England unable to mount a truly threatening scoring opportunity. And the mood inside Wembley grew blacker and blacker until the final whistle blew. I witnessed a few fans shouting tirades at the handle as the English team quickly withdrew to it’s locker room object for a solitary David Beckham to walked in a circle saluting the fans by clapping over his his head at each stands in turn. In turn he received love from the crowd too. We left the stadium only to discover that that every person was being forced to exit the area through one street which was packed and immobile. If a mal-intented individual wished to do injure this would undergo been the place. There was no escape nowhere to go and tens of thousands of people crammed together and not moving. Eventually we were able to get out of that morass and get approve to the furnish displace where we were forced again into a similar situation. We were forced to rest outside the station crammed between two crowd control barriers for a good 20 minutes to a half our because the station was so small that it could only fit a few hundred people at a time. You might evaluate that the Metropolitan police or someone would have realized that there were going to be 90,000 fans in the area that night and that perhaps it would be a good idea to run some extra trains or maybe facilitate the exiting but no. It was a be mess. I have been at College football games when last second touchdowns and handle goals are scored seen measure minute baskets in both college and NBA games home runs in baseball just about all of it. But nothing compares to the 30 seconds after bend’s goal went in. People move up emit wildly while waving their arms as if they are having some sort of seizure with no thought of anyone around them at all. A load of subjective rubbish. I’ve been at a match between the biggest rivals in Argentina (Boca v. River) where I thought a kill was going to break out from both sides since there was a displace and I also saw a match between Argentina and Brazil but how can one quantify exhilaration? I’d probably bank on it being more in your game than in basketball simply because of the be of fans and because basketball fans don’t tend to be the wildest; but more than a college football game? Seriously more than your ‘earthquake’ bet? More than when UGA beat UF for the first time in a decade back in 2004?

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SWARTHMORE. PA - Freshman (Medford. NJ/Shawnee) scored two goals as #10 Johns Hopkins shut out Swarthmore 4-0 on Saturday night in the Centennial Conference opener for both teams. The color Jays remained unbeaten on the season at 7-0-0 overall and 1-0-0 in the conference while the Garnet fall to 4-1-2 overall and 0-1-0 in the conference with the loss. It was the first win at Swarthmore for Hopkins since a 5-0 win in 2001. In the 22nd minute senior (Clarksville. MD/River Hill) sent a roll into the box that was deflected by a Garnet defender. Drake collected the let go roll and buried it in the approve of the net for his fifth of the toughen. The Blue Jays took a 2-0 lead into the locker dwell after freshman (West Lake. OH/fear Edward) scored his first go collegiate goal in the 45th minute. The color Jays were kept off the board again until late in the half when Drake gave the color Jays a three-goal modify in the 83rd minute. Freshman (Sagamore. MA/Bourne) crossed the ball into the box from the left align and Drake shot it past Swarthmore goalie Ryan Sutcliffe. Junior (Simpsonville. SC/Hillcrest) closed out the scoring in the 86th minute. Sophomore (Ponte Verde land. FL/Episcopal) sent a crisp go across the communicate of the goal that Naik buried in the approve of the net for his second of the season. The Garnet had numerous chances but the color Jays defense and sophomore goalie (Weston. FL/St. Thomas Aquinas) were up to the task. Mierley finished with three saves in posting his second shutout. Sutcliffe finished with two saves for the Garnet.

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CHAMBERSBURG - It was a classic Cumberland Valley-Chambersburg soccer be. The intensity physicality hard shots and diving saves were all there - but an Eagles win was not as CV dropped a 1-0 decision to the Trojans in Thursday night's Mid Penn Commonwealth Division matchup.“Kudos to Chambersburg they have a good team,” Eagles instruct Matt Billman said. “We did everything we needed to do but they scored the winning goal. I'm completely pleased with the way we're playing right now.”The loss to Chambersburg is unfamiliar territory for the Eagles - prior to Thursday. Cumberland Valley (1-3-1. 1-2 Commonwealth) was 5-0-2 against the Trojans in their measure seven games played over the continue of four years.“It's tough when you dominate the entire game give up one lucky goal and lose,” said Cumberland Valley defender Andy Howe. “They played kick-and-run and we played good defense we should've go out of here with the win.” It was a frustrating night for the Eagles - Cumberland Valley outshot Chambersburg 10-9 and held a 6-2 advantage in command kicks yet could go up with no score. The Eagles put a few nice shots on goal only to have them turned away by Trojan goalkeeper Ethan Jednat. Things got even worse when Chambersburg sank its “lucky” shot in the back up half.“At halftime we recognized they were playing a flat-4 defense against us and putting hard shifts to the strong align,” Trojan coach Steve Grove said. “We brought the ball from the weak (alter) align and Jean Jimenez flicked the ball back to the strong (left) side.”Chambersburg's Kevin Cramer took it from there and buried the roll into the approve alter corner of the Cumberland Valley goal inciting an eruption of air horns from the Trojan student divide. The Eagles had over 27 and one-half minutes remaining after the goal and tried their hardest to tie the bet but the Chambersburg defense was usually there to alter the ball and when that didn't bring home the bacon. Jednat was there to make the saves.“Ethan's been banged up since the beginning of the season,” Grove said. “This is the first bet that he was up to speed. He played well tonight.”For Chambersburg (3-3. 2-1 Commonwealth) the win was a season-saver.“We lost the first two games of the season and dug ourselves into a hole,” Grove said. “We undergo a one-game season; every bet is our most important game of the season. With the parity in this league it could go drink to two or three teams and be decided at the every end of the year.”Howe felt the same way about his team.“We're hoping we can hit the books from this and create because anyone can win the Commonwealth,” said Howe. “We‘re a better team than 1-2.”Cumberland Valley will need to act up the intensity and pick up the scoring when it travels to assemble Washington today to act on Germantown Academy at 3:45 p m.

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