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> Repackaging the Beautiful Game
>
> By V. M. de Malar
>
> Most European imports to India passed through Goa
> first, before
> assimilation into subcontinental culture. Imagine
> our native cuisine
> without chilies and tomatoes, or our landscape
> without cashew trees,
> these came in a cross-cultural bounty that
> accompanied early European
> colonial expansion into Asia.
>
> There are only a few popular exceptions to this
> general rule; one is
> football. The "jogo bonito", the "beautiful game" is
> a British import
> popularized by imperial armymen, this hasn't
> deterred us from enshrining
> football in the heart of our popular culture, think
> football in India
> and you have to think Goa.
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I wonder if this is some new expansion in Goa history.
British armyman introducing football. I have read that
the jogo bonito was introduced by a French priest at
Escola São José, Arpora. Or was Goa part of the
British empire? So much for the dregs and canards in
nit?
B. Colaço
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