The Tuesday Portrait: Iker Casillas

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The Tuesday Portrait: Iker Casillas
World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 found this 2/7/2008 on www.runofplay.com [flag]
The goalkeeper as a figure of steady, ineluctable anxiety is arguably the most modern player in football, the one who both emotionally and as a potential subject for iconography echoes the feeling of the woman with something in her briefcase as she descends down the subway stairs. Do you pause for a long moment, hand lingering on the light switch, before you go in to your wife? Are you ... [link]

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Daily Dose 2.7.08
Published 2/7/2008 by Daryl at World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010
... from World Cup Blog, The Offside and other places too. Pharaohs vs Elephants preview (Egypt Blog) Sepp Blatter can add up to 11 (The Offside) Celebrating Jozy Altidore’s goal alone (Dave’s Football Blog) Why nil-nil is “very, very bad” (Goal) Moustapha Bayal Sall inaugurates the Good Player Guide (Just Football) Iker Casillas: the most comforting player in football (The Run of Play) Angry with England (Who Ate All the Pies?)

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