Foreign Footballers in Indonesia
Foreign Footballers in Indonesia a preliminary list (subject to verification) I am wondering who plays football in Indonesia. And so, here is a preliminary list of foreign players playing for teams in the Indonesian Super League.Each team is allowed to have four overseas players: at least one of these players must come from Asia. Players […]
Rotterdam Marathon Report
Eliud Kipchoge, world record holder of the marathon.
Bonek
Bonek I am reading Fajar Junaedi’s book Bonek: Grup Supporter Terbesar dan Pertama di Indonesia (Yogyakarta: Buku Litera 2012), yes I am. From my search of the KITLV catalogue, this appears to be the first monograph on a supporter group or soccer fans in Indonesia. Junaedi is an academic based at Universitas Muhamadiyah Yogyakarta. He […]
Doing Boxing
Doing Boxing In the off-season, footy clubs put up videos of their players doing their boxing training: combinations of punches, footwork, sparring. Some footy players have reputations for being adequate boxers, the retired-Shane Tuck of Richmond, being one. Barry Hall thought he was both a boxer and a footy player until the moment arrived for […]
Boxing Gym Aesthetics
Boxing Gym Aesthetics I am reading Loic Wacquant’s book, Body and Soul: notebooks of an apprentice boxer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), yes I am. I have a postcard of Jeff Wall’s photograph Boxing (2011) on my desk. I have my memories of my own training at boxing (and muay thai) gyms. Wacquant is a […]
Running Through the City
Running Through the City The starting points for this post are the idea of the flaneur, Michel de Certeau’s chapter “Walking in the City” from The Practice of Everyday Life and watching of several video clips from the Epic TV website. The flaneur is an iconic figure of late 19th century or 20th century cities. […]
Footy Memories
Footy Memories I have recently signed up to be a contributor to an online footy and sports website, journal: Footy Almanac. The Footy Almanac was founded by John Harms and Paul Daffey. They invite contributions from anyone interested in writing for their website – but, primarily, it seems about sport and more specifically about footy […]
Sepak Bola & Eduardo Galeano
Sepak Bola & Eduardo Galeano Ada buku yang ditulis Eduardo Galeano, judulnya, Soccer in Sun and in Shadow – penerbitnya Verso (2013). Ini salah satu buku kesukaanku. Buku ini melintasi beberapa genre. Soccer in Sun and in Shadow tampak jelas sebagai buku olahraga, tepatnya sejarah sepak bola di Amerika Selatan, dan lebih tepat lagi, dua […]
Playing the PS Vita
Playing the PS Vita “Everything I learned about life, I learned from playing FIFA on my PS Vita”. I am trying to justify playing my PS Vita: a machine I use almost exclusively for FIFA – I think I have the 2013 edition. Whatever the case, Suarez is playing for Liverpool – which is a […]
Books on Football in Indonesia
In Colombijn’s article on football in Indonesia he writes that his article is the first on football in Indonesia (Colombijn 2000). It seems impossible to find articles on ‘sport’ let alone ‘football’ in Indonesia from some of the usual sources for Indonesian studies – Indonesia, BKI, RIMA and others. In the list below is a […]