Comments on: Images of Soccer in Oaxaca

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:38:16 +0000

i think this a good rescource for a research

By: Keddy

Keddy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:24:01 +0000

DK – A small favor: if you see the next Ken Griffey Jr (the one who didn’t take steroids and will make the hall of fame legitimately) down there during one of your trips, give him my number and tell him the Mariners are the team to be with! Plus, you don’t want their best athletes playing soccer right b/c then the USA will be able to take them more easily. You win and my Ms win. No losers here. Happy new year. Scotland soccer forever in 08!

By: Alejandro Ruiz

Alejandro Ruiz — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:54:36 +0000

I love how Oaxacans love basketball and Baseball as much as soccer. Just shows how they do it a little bit differently in the land of Juarez.

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:56:50 +0000

Ace Cowboy - Here is a very broad overview of the research project. Basically, we were in a San Miguel for two weeks. During that time, our main task was to find people to talk with and administer a roughly 150-question survey to. The questions on that survey are similar to the ones on the 2005 version. In addition to the survey, students in the program (35 in total, roughly 20 undergrads and 15 grad students) were broken into groups, each of which had a topic to investigate more fully. My group, for example, is focusing on the impact of migration on education. We did in-depth interviews with teachers, administrators, students, and parents about this and observed in several schools. During the next couple of months, we will doing the same type of fieldwork with people from San Miguel who live in the US. Conveniently, many live in San Diego County. After we have done all of this data-gathering we will analyze our findings. Eventually, each group will write a chapter that will be compiled into a book. This book is the latest in a series, which includes similar studies of towns in Jalisco and the Yucatán. I can say that the fieldwork portion of the project in Mexico was a wonderful experience for me. I learned a lot and had a great time, which is an excellent combination. If you want to see non-soccer pictures from our trip, check out our group Flickr page.

By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:10:45 +0000

Here’s to Temo selling more shirts then Beckham! Forza Fire! Great read as usual.

By: Adam S.

Adam S. — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:28:20 +0000

Oxaca City is a beautiful city. There has been some politial unrest there in the last year. I hope the city has recovered.

By: Misareaux

Misareaux — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:37:50 +0000

OT: How are you liking UCSD so far? I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s slowly sucking out my soul. I just wish the lights at Warren Field had been put in the two years I lived on-campus. Everytime I’m there now I see people playing soccer.

By: Ace Cowboy

Ace Cowboy — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:32:04 +0000

Great stuff, man…and as much as I love the futbol in Mejico angle, I’d love to hear more about the research project itself. Sounds pretty interesting, and timely.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:24:54 +0000

Really neat. I had a bunch of pictures of soccer in Oaxaca from my trip there last spring but I lost them when my computer got stolen. I was actually in Oaxaca City for the first few days of the world cup so it included the citywide celebrations of the 3-1 Mexican demolition of Iran. It was also very strange being the only white person in a packed bar watching the US get stomped on by the Czechs.

But by far the best was the beach soccer in the little coastal towns.