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From Africa: Iñaki Williams, “A son of Bilbao”

Inaki Williams of Athletic Club celebrates victory after the Copa del Rey final
An article in an African publication explains how this player whose family is from Ghana is a Basque soccer player

What is Athletic? The ‘NYT’ Knows

Players like Inaki Williams understand, and embrace, the connection between Athletic and its Basque identity.Jon Nazca/Reuters
It's hard for even a month to go by without having to make some reference to the New York Times.  We've always felt (and said)...

A Catalan takes a look at the ‘soul’ of Athletic, from...

Urban Pitch. artículo sobre el Athletic
Urban Pitch is a US-based website that is looking to cover urban soccer culture and its connections to fashion, art, music, and everything that...

The ‘Financial Times’ dedicates an extraordinary article to Athletic and their...

Athletic’s Iñaki Williams in action against Espanyol last month. ‘We are doing everything right and that is something that other clubs can’t buy,’ says the star striker © Daniel Castro Garcia
Our regular readers will know that we don't normally talk about sports, especially soccer, unless the articles highlight other aspects that go beyond the...

Who is Basque? Who can play for Athletic?

Bibiane Schulze Solano una vasca nacida en Alemania que quiere jugar en el Athletic
This article was translated by John R. Bopp As you may have noticed, soccer is not one of our favorite subjects.  Normally, we only bring it...

Iñaki Williams explains the obvious: “I’m Basque”

This article was translated by John R. Bopp The Fox Sport Italia website has just shown a clip from the documentary “Six Dreams”, produced by Amazon...

Le Figaro: “to play in Athletic, all you need is a...

Iñaki William, un jugador vasco, en un equipo vasco
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp Our regular readers will know that we don’t usually talk about soccer.  There are four reasons why: We...

The Times of India summarizes the “Athletic model” for its readers

Athletic Bilbao’s Raúl García (22) after his team scored in a 5-1 victory over Partizan Belgrade. All of Athletic’s players have Basque ties. Credit Alvaro Barrientos/Associated Press
This article was translated by John R. Bopp In these six years that we’ve been doing this blog, we’ve made many references to information we’ve collected...

The AP writes about Iñaki Williams and we repeat yet again:...

In this Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015 photo, Athletic Bilbao's Inaki Williams, center, warms up with Ander Iturraspe, and Raul Garcia, left, during a team training session in Lezama, near to Bilbao, northern Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. Inaki Williams is not the type of soccer player you would expect to see at Athletic Bilbao, the traditional Spanish club that only fields players from Bilbao and its neighboring Basque regions. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
This article was translated by Joseba Varela At the beginning of the year, we wrote a comment under the title: Is Iñaki Williams black? Well,...

Iñaki Williams is Black? My God, we had no idea!*

As we always say, soccer doesn't really interest us.  But what does interest us is the image of the Basques that is projected to...