I don’t think my man Vijay Prashad would mind me reposting his first in a series of World Cup posts put on Facebook: “… Herein starts my backgrounder, on football, third worldism and history. This first one is on the historic FLN football team, which was formed by Algerian militants who were some of the best soccer players in France; they left fame for their commitment, and went on the fly the Algerian flag from Ho Chi Minh City to Baghdad and beyond.”
Algeria is playing England in Cape Town on 18th June during the group stages of the 2010 World Cup. I’ve got my Algerian strip.
