About Me and Why I'm Here

Hello there! My name is Patrick Stoll, and I am a Journalism major at the University of Maryland,
College Park.

I am also in the Honors Humanities Program, which allows me to look at things in a
more "humanistic" and deeper way, like a liberal-arts college while still having the benefits of a large
university.

One of the things we do is a "Keystone" project, a two-year project where we take some
aspect of the humanities and work with it in our own personal way.

Here is where the blog comes in:

This blog will serve as my Keystone project.

And about what, you may ask?

I'm glad you asked.

I will be talking about, as the title suggests, the world's biggest problem in the world's biggest sport, or rather, racism in soccer.

I am an avid soccer (and sports in general) fan. My club is AC Milan, who I support even in the darkest of times in the club (like right about now, but that is a different subject).

While watching soccer, I have seen the problem of racist abuse on the part of fans, and players as well, develop into a constant problem that plagues the entire soccer world.

Everywhere from Spain to Germany, Italy to France, England to Russia, and even Brazil and Argentina.

What I want to do is analyze this issue.

I will be posting every week (I hope) about any new incidents that happen in the soccer world that relate to this issue.

I wish I had a solution to propose for these incidents, but I don't, at least not right now.

So on that note, welcome to my blog, thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy!

-Patrick