futbol rivalry Archives - Sibling Rivalry https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/tag/futbol-rivalry/ How Mexico and the US Built the Most Contentious, Co-Dependent Feud in World Soccer Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:06:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Envy & Scorn Furnish this Rivalry with Curiously Intimate form of Codependence https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/#respond Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:42:08 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4085 See below a brief excerpt from Chapter 1 of Sibling Rivalry, 400-odd words that help explain what 200 years of envy and scorn can do to a sporting rivalry. But first, a shout-out to photographer Tony Quinn, whose work is featured throughout the book. This image above captures the unalloyed bliss produced by yet another [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/feed/ 0 The Canonization of Graham Zusi, Patron Saint https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:36:01 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4171 Sibling Rivalry Excerpt: From Chapter 3: That morning of the October 2024 friendly down in Guadalajara, we weren't thinking about Graham Zusi, Patron Saint of the North American Derby. Still full of optimzism for US fortunes, my posse of New Englanders headed out for another outdoor brunch on a tropical terrace. Our stomachs well [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/feed/ 0 Envy and Scorn drive Rivalry (and Co-Dependence) https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/01/excerpt-chapter-5-envy-scorn-interdependence/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/01/excerpt-chapter-5-envy-scorn-interdependence/#respond Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:14:05 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4249 With his academic scholarship, Dr. Joe Cobbs leans heavily on an understood social dynamic between two very human qualities: envy and scorn. Cobbs was first introduced to these terms, in the sports psychology context, by Dr. Andrei Markovits. He’s the author of several seminal works on sport and society; his 2017 paper used envy [...]

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