Three Sided World Cup Thomas BüschThe next Three-Sided Football World Cup will take place June 1-3 in Madrid. The alternative World Cup tournament shortly before the official one kicks off in Russia. Filippo Ricci, one of the long-standing Philosophy Football players, is planning to hold it in Madrid, where three sided football have been played before and where he is based as a football correspondent. It is open to all regions, nations, towns and…
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…y connection over sport. This laudatory sentences do not refer to the Fifa World Cup that currently takes place in Brazil. It refers to another football World Cup – the Three Sided Football World Cup – that also took place this summer. It is the very first time that a World Cup of this special kind of football was realized. But why is it so special? And why do we like it so much? The proud champions Silkeborg KFUM The concept and the rules The gam…
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The next Three-Sided Football World Cup will take place June 1-3 in Madrid. The alternative World Cup tournament shortly before the official one kicks off in Russia. Filippo Ricci, one of the long-standing Philosophy Football players, is planning to hold it in Madrid, where three sided football have been played before and where he is based as a football correspondent. It is open to all regions, nations, towns and villages and Philosophy Football…
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…l Federation together with Museum Jorn Silkeborg will be hosting the first World Cup in Three Sided Football ever held – and you are invited to participate. Teams from 8 different European countries will participate in the World Cup tournament taking place Saturday 24th May. The event – taking place from Friday 23rd May until Sunday 25th May – will start off by a symposium held at the Museum Jorn Friday 23rd May, where important players, thinkers…
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…itional system and its media culture against itself” we can call the Three-Sided Football a phenomen or technique of Détournement based on the theoretical background of Guy Debord. Devised in 1962 by the Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973), this version of the beautiful game is an extension of his links to the Marxist-inspired Situationist movement. Jorn saw traditional football as a representation of the “us versus them” class struggle of the ti…
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…you get someone waking up, going out and finding a completely transformed world. But it’s a world on fire. The whole place is literally on fire, and there are explosions everywhere. Later, the man just returns home completely shocked. He looks at a plant, waters it and that’s the end of the animation. So, even if the world around us is changing (maybe for the worse) there is still hope and the possibility of dreaming of change. Raphael Vella (n.d…
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…Football FC collaborated with the Whitechapel Art Gallery in organizing a three-sided football tournament to coincide with the 2010 General Election. In contrast to the adversarial nature of the conventional game three-sided football seeks to promote alliances. Although the match was centered around domestic politics, it received coverage beyond the UK. The overseas interest soon resulted in an invitation to take part in a three-sided match in Ma…
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…fe for the expected tourists. The slums became a disturbing aspect for the worldcup. Some of the favelas are attractively located with views on the cities, the stadiums and the sea. This is a further reason why entire areas were destroyed in order to make space for hotels and apartments. Not only the houses itself but also the social structures were dissolved even as outlined above if they had a more or less functioning organism . More than 250.00…
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…ds the games on walls, streets and houses. [widgetkit id=14790] The Fifa World Cup 2014 in Brazil came along with much more than the football games that are supposed to unify people around the globe. Years and months before the mega sports event started, the constructions for the stadiums as well as the protests began. The international press reported about several riots and the brutal method of the Brazilian government against any kind of prote…
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