Sebuah Catatan Kecil

Do you like football or soccer? Yes me too. I like observing football rather than playing it. There are something interesting in these 2019 UEFA Champions League (UCL) and UEFA Europa League (UEL) final matches. It would be all English final or English derby finals because Liverpool is going to meet Tottenham Hotspurs at UCL and Chelsea is going to meet Arsenal at UEL. Maybe we are not surprised if we see English clubs playing in the final match at the highest football championship, but the different is now they have more young English local players in their own English club. And it also effected their National team. We can see at Fifa World Cup 2018 in Russia, The Three Lions squad reached the semi final with their young players. How can it happened? Meanwhile we know that England National Team was not so good around 2008 (even they did not qualified to Euro Austria-Switzerland final round) until 2016. I think it's because of 'home grown' regulation. Football Federati...

         Ok selanjutnya gue akan langsung nulis tulisan kedua di hari yang sama ini mumpung mood dan waktu menulis ini lagi bagus haha. Sebenernya tulisan ini mau gue tulis sekitar pertengahan Juli lalu ga lama setelah Final Piala Dunia 2018 antara Perancis vs Kroasia. Ada yang tau kenapa? Ya, betul karena salah satu finalisnya adalah Kroasia, salah satu negara di Kawasan Balkan eropa Tenggara ex-Yugoslavia. Tulisan ini mencoba mengulas dari sisi pandang antropologi (meskipun gue bukan antropolog), sosial budaya dan mengambil pelajaran-pelajaran penting dari hal tersebut.        Well, Ok kita mulai. Kroasia pada edisi Piala Dunia di Rusia tahun ini berhasil mencatatkan sejarah menjadi finalis untuk pertama kalinya. Bahkan melebihi prestasi Golden Age era Slaven Bilic pendahulu mereka yang berhasil merebut tempat ketiga pada Piala Dunia tahun 1998 di Perancis. Bisa dikatakan, Kroasia merupakan negara pecahan Yugo...