{"id":19,"date":"2005-03-09T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006_blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2010-01-18T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:23:29","slug":"o-sport-revisited-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2005\/03\/09\/o-sport-revisited-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;O Sport&#8217; revisited again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we were in Moscow, on our way to Korea in 2002, Phil and I went to see a game at the Spartak stadium. After the game, as we were wandering around looking for the way out, we <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/o-sport-you-are-world-peace\/\">stumbled across a sign<\/a> overlooking the training pitches which seemed to sum up the spirit of our trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/o_sport\/peace.jpg\" alt=\"O Sport You Are World Peace\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time, Israel and Palestine were going through a particularly confrontational phase, and we questioned whether such sentiments could be put into practice in the region. Well, it seems like an attempt to do so is underway: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfootballworld.org\/\">Street Football World <\/a> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/globall.streetfootballworld.org\/Projects\/Project.2004-06-30.0338446310\/p_events\/SEvent.2005-02-03.4230294962\/en\">a Mini World Cup Tournament for Palestinian-Israeli youth<\/a> will take place on 15th April, 2005. It&#8217;s being organised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peres-center.org\/\">Peres Centre for Peace<\/a> as part of their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peres-center.org\/pages\/projects_content.asp?iGlobalVarTypeId=2&amp;iGlobalVarId=135\">Twinned Peace Soccer Schools<\/a>&#8221; project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were in Moscow, on our way to Korea in 2002, Phil and I went to see a game at the Spartak stadium. After the game, as we were wandering around looking for the way out, we <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/o-sport-you-are-world-peace\/\">stumbled across a sign<\/a> overlooking the training pitches which seemed to sum up the spirit of our trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/o_sport\/peace.jpg\" alt=\"O Sport You Are World Peace\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time, Israel and Palestine were going through a particularly confrontational phase, and we questioned whether such sentiments could be put into practice in the region. Well, it seems like an attempt to do so is underway: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfootballworld.org\/\">Street Football World <\/a> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/globall.streetfootballworld.org\/Projects\/Project.2004-06-30.0338446310\/p_events\/SEvent.2005-02-03.4230294962\/en\">a Mini World Cup Tournament for Palestinian-Israeli youth<\/a> will take place on 15th April, 2005. It&#8217;s being organised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peres-center.org\/\">Peres Centre for Peace<\/a> as part of their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peres-center.org\/pages\/projects_content.asp?iGlobalVarTypeId=2&amp;iGlobalVarId=135\">Twinned Peace Soccer Schools<\/a>&#8221; project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}