World Cup Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/world-cup Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Thu, 14 May 2026 14:03:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg World Cup Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/world-cup 32 32 English Football’s unique Global Following Grapples with yet Another Reality Check https://www.halphillips.net/grim-realities-for-english-football-and-its-global-following?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grim-realities-for-english-football-and-its-global-following https://www.halphillips.net/grim-realities-for-english-football-and-its-global-following#respond Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:15:44 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3308 MOSCOW (July 12, 2018) — While their close neighbors and erstwhile enemies crow this morning over another anguished English exit from the World Cup, great swaths of the soccer-loving world suffer alongside the Albion faithful. Some of this cooperative hand-wringing is due to the sheer size of the cultural footprint left by the mother country, […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/grim-realities-for-english-football-and-its-global-following/feed 0 World Cup Nostalgia: Ultimately, it was televised https://www.halphillips.net/world-cup-tv-memories?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-cup-tv-memories https://www.halphillips.net/world-cup-tv-memories#respond Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:20:26 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=169 Like the Olympic Games, the World Cup comes round but once every four years. Unlike the modern Olympiad, the World Cup has only recently attracted the exhaustive attention of television programmers, a fact driven home to me by my friend and colleague, Dieter Schmidt, in his debut column at halphillips.net. There was indeed no international […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/world-cup-tv-memories/feed 0 A Tale of Two Soccer Melting Pots https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:11:58 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=153   By Dee Schmidt One of the things you need to know about me is that while I’m counter-cultural and an American through and through (you can be both, my brothers and sisters), my paternal ancestry is seriously Teutonic. Dig: My dad was Austrian and because the heyday of Austrian football came in the 1930s […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots/feed 0 Defrosted Retromensch serves up pre-WC punditry https://www.halphillips.net/defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry https://www.halphillips.net/defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry#respond Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:09:50 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=133   By Dee Schmidt Hello, world. I’m from the ‘70s and if you’re reading this, you’re probably not. So bear with me, future dudes. I’ve spent 32 of the last 36 years frozen solid, biding my time at the bottom of an ever-expanding trash heap on the snow-white shores of Hudson Bay. I’m from Encinitas, […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry/feed 0 Soccer’s own Encinitas Man to contribute WC 2010 reports https://www.halphillips.net/soccers-own-encinitas-man-to-contribute-wc-2010-reports?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soccers-own-encinitas-man-to-contribute-wc-2010-reports https://www.halphillips.net/soccers-own-encinitas-man-to-contribute-wc-2010-reports#respond Wed, 26 May 2010 19:02:05 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=79   The curious, inspirational story of Dieter “Dee” Schmidt first came to the soccer world’s attention some four ago when his frozen but otherwise well preserved body — clad in nothing but a vintage Paul Breitner Bayern Munich jersey, impossibly bell-bottomed jeans and a pair of antique adidas Sambas — was recovered, thanks to a […]

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