--- title: Andrés Martinez | TIME description: Andrés Martinez is the author of the forthcoming The Great Game: A Tale of Two Footballs and America’s Quest to Conquer Global Sport. He is the co-director of the Great Game Lab at Arizona State University and a fellow at New America. canonical: https://time.com/author/andres-martinez/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/andres-martinez/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Andrés Martinez ## Andrés Martinez Andrés Martinez is the author of the forthcoming [_The Great Game: A Tale of Two Footballs and America’s Quest to Conquer Global Sport_](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/great-game-9798216201571/). He is the co-director of the [Great Game Lab](https://greatgamelab.asu.edu/) at Arizona State University and a fellow at New America. ## Andrés Martinez *  Dec 5, 2025 ### [How America Fell in Love With Soccer](https://time.com/7338564/world-cup-us-soccer-trump-2026/) The World Cup draw is a reminder of how that "foreign football" became popular—and Trump's embrace o... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 26, 2024 ### [What Harris and Trump Get Wrong About the U.S. Border](https://time.com/7024266/harris-trump-us-mexico-border/) The Vice President rightly condemns Trump's racism, but doesn't push back on the claim that the U.S.... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 15, 2024 ### [The Soft Power of the NFL](https://time.com/7021106/nfl-brazil-global-expansion/) Roger Goodell isn’t a U.S. diplomat, but he is doing more than his fair share to make the United Sta... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 31, 2014 ### [A Few Forecasts on the Defining Questions of 2015](https://time.com/3648800/2015-forecasts/) Be on the lookout for the unexpected shocks [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 26, 2014 ### [Let's Give Thanks and Stop Whining This Holiday Season](https://time.com/3607714/world-never-been-better/) The world has never been better [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 14, 2014 ### [Why Mandarin Won't Be a Lingua Franca](https://time.com/3585847/mandarin-lingua-franca/) The odds against a Chinese dialect ever gaining traction as an international language are formidable [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 16, 2014 ### [More of America's Foreign College Students Should Come From Mexico](https://time.com/3510359/mexico-america-foreign-college-students/) Even though it is our neighbor, our second-largest trading partner, and home to almost 120 million p... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 25, 2014 ### [Obama's Wrong About Our Go-It-Alone, Imperialistic, America-First Tax Code](https://time.com/3430921/obama-tax-inversion/) Our "territorial” tax system is just Yankee imperialism [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 5, 2014 ### [Uber Unites Politicians in Hypocrisy](https://time.com/3274790/uber-unites-politicians/) Republicans and Democrats alike want to help the company avoid regulations [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 20, 2014 ### [Stop Pretending Nothing Happens in August](https://time.com/3145411/stop-pretending-nothing-happens-in-august/) The month of beach vacations is also when World War I broke out, Iraq invaded Kuwait and the U.S. bo... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 12, 2014 ### [How Soccer Is Destroying American Exceptionalism](https://time.com/2857626/how-soccers-growing-popularity-undermines-america/) For most of the 20th century, when so much of American culture was being adopted by others, American... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 3, 2014 ### [The Rising Cost of Not Opting Into Loyalty Shopping Programs](https://time.com/2813982/the-rising-cost-of-not-opting-into-loyalty-shopping-programs/) In the future, every retail experience could be defined by whether you're in or out of network. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 28, 2014 ### [Modern-Day Singapore Pays a Price for Globalization](https://time.com/120496/modern-day-singapore-pays-a-price-for-globalization/) The city-state has done all it can to succeed in the global marketplace, only to end up feeling some... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 2, 2014 ### [Germany's Crushing Inequality Works on the Soccer Field](https://time.com/84919/bayern-munich-german-soccer-inequality/) Good competition isn't about equally matched teams. Just look at Bayern Munich's dominance, which sh... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 2, 2014 ### [Three Reasons Why I Bought My Kid an Xbox](https://time.com/46843/three-reasons-why-i-bought-my-kid-an-xbox/) I thought gaming was a gateway vice to a life of ruin. Now I’m grasping to find some redeeming educa... 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