This Love Is Not for Cowards (30 page)

Acknowledgments

My thanks to just about everyone on La Frontera. That includes anyone associated with UTEP, with the El Paso Public Library, with the Juárez Maquiladora Association, and with a hundred other border outfits including, while I'm at it, the many Whataburger restaurants I patronized on the El Paso side. Beyond the people already mentioned in the text, I want to recognize the contributions of Ben Adams, Kesse Buchanan, Ilean Di Raz, Steve Dudley, Pat and Carolina Flood, Victor Foia, Kyle Haas, Chris Higashi, Nate Knaebel, Tristram Korten, Chris Lopez, Janet Lopez, Kirk Nielsen, Will Palmer, Chris Parris-Lamb, Randall Patterson, Johnathan Rendon, Aurora Rivera, Linda Robertson, Aaron and Sarit Schneider, Kirk Semple, Jessica Sick, Janine Sieja, Jabari Smith, Tom Trahan, Alberto J. Treviño and Steven Yore.

The
New York Times
commissioned my reporting on the dead women; a longer and unedited draft of the femicide chapter originally appeared as a Kindle Single. This book first took shape in the Scandiuzzi Writers' Room at Seattle's Central Library. Profound thanks as always to my family, especially this time to Nathan and Shea Bastian for their help in Dallas, and to Corin Jorns in Seattle for inviting me to his fourth birthday party, and for taking Benito on a good, long walk.

A Note on the Author

Robert Andrew Powell
is the author of
We Own This Game
, a story of race, politics, and youth football. His journalism has appeared in the
New York Times
, the
New York Times Magazine
,
Sports Illustrated
,
Slate
,
Mother Jones
,
Inc.
,
5280
,
Runner's World
, and the
Kansas City Star
; on public radio's
This American Life
and in
The Best American Sports Writing
anthology. He lives in Miami.

By the Same Author

We Own This Game

Copyright © 2012 by Robert Andrew Powell
Electronic edition published in March 2012

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Powell, Robert Andrew.

   This love is not for cowards : salvation and soccer in Ciudad Juárez / Robert Andrew Powell.

            p. cm.

   ISBN 978-1-60819-716-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)

   1.  Soccer—Mexico—Ciudad Juárez.   2.  Soccer teams—Mexico—Ciudad Juárez.   3.  Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)—Social life and customs.   I.  Title.

   GV944.M6P69 2012

   796.33409721'6—dc23

2011039004

ISBN: 9781608197170