Greenfields is a company that researches manufactures and lays down artificial turf for various sports However their most remarkable achievement to date is the football fields they are putting up in Africa: I've heard personal stories of how football fields have transmuted to social communities and its extremely encouraging to see the steps taken to continue with the process of giving these children a better future.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Education and less corruption would go allot farther than football fields! Medical supplies would also be more helpful.
Anyone who can get the Africans to contract out 51 turfs by producing one one-star football field is worth believing in. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Watch the video on this page http://www.greenfields.eu/en/
So instead of educating their peoples they want to fill them with sports to take their minds away from their suffering.
Oh, geez, you're sure a freakin' idealist and silly-assed optimist! SAM, think about for just one lousy moment .....Africa is a HUGE freakin' continent ...and you think that one lousy soccer field is gonna' make any freeakin' difference for the whole continent?? ....LOL! And "...the Africans..."?? Who, pray tell, are "the Africans"??? Baron Max
Africa loves soccer and NOT American football . Africa can be saved by science, technology and the war against corruption and NOT by any sport . Africa is so corrupt whereas bribes are the norm.....etc .
Everyone here is sooooooo right. Since Africa can be helped by medical supplies and science, there is no use in doing anything else, however beneficial.
I think you're being a tiny bit sarcastic, but unless it's perfectly clear, sarcasm doesn't work well on Internet forums. You need some practice if that's sarcasm. However, sarcasm or not, what you said it actually true ....the western world has been pouring money into Africa for decades and it's done not one single solitary thing for anyone. What we actually should do is find the plug on that continent, then pull it out and sink the fuckin continent beneath the waves of the ocean! Africa has done nothing but cause the world problems since it was "discovered" by white Europeans. Baron Max
what makes anyone think that africa can or needs to be "saved". this just sounds like more new-age pie-eyed optimism. in case nobodys noticed, we humans have never been really concerned with helping each other out. and when we try to butt into other peoples problems it just causes more heartache, i.e. israel. we're animals, very smart animals, but we still have the same needs and desires as every other animal on the planet. somebody is always gonna go hungry. theres always gonna be wars of aggression. its the human condition. we cant live on air and we have to take to live. pain and suffering is the human condition. it comes from having a body, theres no way around it. havent we already "helped" africa enough?
Its name in the majority, common, and standard English dialects is "soccer". Other languages, and some oddball dialects of English, have various different names. The fact that so many countries use bastardizations of English words to name their own sports ("futbol" instead of "balon-pie", say) is interesting from a psychological or colonial pov, and apparently typical of soccer culture generally.
FIFA - the Federation Internationale de Football Association (which translates into English as " International Soccer Federation Association") is not obligated to name its sports, or its organizations, in standard English. And the "we" who don't call it soccer are the "we" who speak Spanish, French, various minority dialects of English, etc. That makes perfect sense. I certainly have no objection to other people naming their sports however they choose, and I applaud the variety of English regional dialect. They might even borrow English words in odd combinations - "futbol", "hello kitty", - and the students of colonial power can have at the task of analyzing the phenomenon. The realm of various Spanglish, Chinglish, and similar inventive and attractive and often entertaining polyglottal coinages is large and fascinating, and "football" for soccer will likely prove durable. Here's a favorite of mine: http://www.olliradtke.de/chinglish/images/olrwebprojects_fragrant_hot_marxism_wr.jpg
? So? The Brits have a lot of quaint and anachronistic terms hanging around, which the French and Spanish are free to bastardize, borrow, etc. It is interesting that they borrowed an Islander dialect term - the colonial psychology is powerful stuff.
Besides the name, which dates back to 1860s England, and is not the name of that "sport" in any other major English dialect. Charming and entertaining, cute in its way - like calling baseball "rounders" - but if you start talking about "football" in English to an American, Canadian, or Australian, they won't be hearing you talk about soccer unless you explain yourself. Is there some reason you find the Imperial English or colonial heritage dialects more "authoritative" somehow? Leftover psychological legacy of the British Empire?
I really couldn't care less where it came from. I just happen to have worked with people in intermittent high intensity sports and football is the generally accepted term for kicking a ball around with your foot.
