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July 1, 2006
They--Australia lost to a much better team--Italy--didn't they. Australia simply lacked the strike power to take advantage of the possession they managed to win.
Leahy
The story behind the FiFA spectacle is not just the "national narrative" that binds fans to their teams qnd which is open to progressive or reactionary appropriation. That is not the game's driving force any more. Soccer, today, is a multibillion-dollar global industry whose power centers are transnational corporations--- it is the money being earned from modern sports promotion, and the sponsorship of the World Cup and its teams stands to make the corporations billions of dollars in revenues. This business of international sport is also the world of international sport.
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