Article: A soccer tournament with a social conscience.(Arts & Culture)

Article: Berlin police confiscate 3,000 'racist' World ...
AP Worldstream;  June 9, 2006 ;     282 words ... ... Dateline: BERLIN Police raided the headquarters of a far-right party in Berlin and confiscated about 3,000 guides for the World Cup with racist overtones, a spokesman said Friday. The guides, produced by the National Democratic Party, known by its German ...

Article: RIGHTS: SPORTS INCREASINGLY MIRROR A RACIST WORLD - ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... soccer). France's champion soccer team, which won the World Cup in 2000, was viewed as a perfect symbol of "multi-colored ... General Assembly calls on FIFA, which is overseeing the 2006 World Cup in Germany, to promote "a world of sport free from racism ...

Article: WORLD CUP SOCCER DIGEST.
San Francisco Chronicle;  June 25, 1998 ;     643 words ... ... poor officiating was part of a racist World Cup plot and called the tournament ... Cameroon was eliminated in the World Cup on a questionable call. In its ... States completes its disappointing World Cup with a match against Yugoslavia ...

Article: Refs become focus of World Cup
AP Online;  June 24, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... 24-1998 PARIS (AP) _ At a World Cup full of scoring and spectacle ... poor officiating was part of a racist World Cup plot and called the tournament ... movement. ``What we saw is not a World Cup competition. It has been a festival ...

Article: Unhappiness with coach, referees at World Cup
AP Online;  June 24, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... complaints got very loud at the World Cup on Wednesday as American players ... of what level, especially the World Cup level, needs leadership and a ... poor officiating was part of a racist World Cup plot and called the tournament ...

Article: Beauty queen's loss of crown 'was racist' ; WORLD ...
Evening Standard - London;  April 11, 2008 ;     259 words ...A HISPANIC woman who won the Miss California contest and was then told to return her crown is suing for alleged racial bias. The lawsuit claims the pageant's director said the fact Christina Silva, 24, spoke Spanish at the contest "may detract from the calibre of the pageant and some of the

Article: British checks hit Czech minority: Last week, Britain began ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  July 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Tony Wesolowsky Special to The Christian Science Monitor PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC -- Tickets and passports in hand and baggage in tow, Ondrej Holub and his family arrived at Prague's bustling Ruzyne airport last week, eager to travel to London to visit relatives. But while they were waiting