Stereotypes clouding the beautiful game
Culture . Society . Sportsby Ollie Standen For the past 21 years, football has been an integral part of my life. Throughout recent years the growth of women’s football has been tremendous, with more participation from grassroots to professional level. The coverage of women’s football has also grown, with major sponsorship deals such as Sky Sports, showing 118 matches
Bis Bald Munich
City life . Culture . Food . Society . Sports . Student life . TravelIt is only natural that my final walk in Munich would be up Leopoldstrasse. My live has in many ways been up and down this street for the last 5 months. My stay in Munich started at LMU’s faculty of Psychology where LMU had arranged a month long intensive German course. This was the best introduction
Can Sport save the future Generations?
Health . Society . SportsThe contemporary world around us is in a constant global mutation day by day: one of the big driving forces of change is for sure the digitalization. Technology is now part of our daily lives and nothing is the same as it was before the digital era. If for some aspects, technology made our everyday
My year in 3 months aka what is wrong with time
Authors . Sports . Student life . UncategorizedI am grateful for one of the first blogs we had to write with our expectations of the Erasmus semester. Thanks to that blog post, I can compare and evaluate my growth and achievements. I wrote that I want to: be independent, let my personality grow, explore my hidden talents and hobbies, get motivation for
Care about human rights? Stop watching football
Authors . Culture . Politics . Society . Sports . TravelFootball is far from the innocent game of fun that it used to be when I was a child. Nowadays it’s heavenly influenced by oil money from countries with somewhat questionable “human rights”. This week, the Spanish Super Cup is played. Four Spanish top teams competing in a small Spanish tournament. But it doesn’t take
Of course, I hit like a girl. You could too, if you hit a little harder.
Society . Sports“Is it fair, that women are paid significantly less than men in sports?” This question has raised a lot of heated debates among sports journalists and athletes. I, being a female athlete myself, am not going to watch that debate from the sideline – instead, I am going to take a full “swing” at it.
Europe should boycott the World Cup 2022 in Qatar
SportsThe football World Cup 2022 is hosted by Qatar. A small but rich desert country without any football culture. However, that seems to be the smallest problem about placing a World Cup in that country. Corruption, ignorance of human rights and constructing workers dying because of bad working conditions. It’s all a description of Qatar,
Hero or Zero?
Politics . Society . SportsIn a perfectly regular environment, the season had just started and everything looked the same old way, calm and discreet. We were in 2015, during transfer season of European football when a scandal bursts the World of the King of Sports. The Football Leaks came up. Out of nowhere, an unsigned website shocks the world
Inside the Life of a Professional Athlete
Sports . Student lifeDaria Kuznetsova is a 22-year-old from Moscow who started playing tennis when she was 4 years old. In this interview, we will explore her experience growing up as a professional athlete. How did you get involved in tennis? Since I always had a lot of energy, my parents knew that I would be good at
Into the blue with sharks and nemo fish
SportsWhale sharks, nemo fish and lionfish in their natural habitat. The diving instructor Anita Andersen (24) from Denmark has seen it all. She feels free in her element 20 meters below sea level. Orange, blue and yellow striped nemo fish rushes past in the crystal-clear water. Further ahead the lionfish with its spiky fin rays