I’ve had this TV show in my TiVo waiting to be watched, and I finally got around to it. It’s a pretty rad documentary showcasing the Over 40 league at Corona Park in NYC. But it goes into a lot and is definitely worth watching. There are a lot of things that happened in this that I want to talk about…anybody else peeped this one out?
I was having a conversation with a friend over the weekend, and the infamous Eurosport catalogue got brought up. If you are, or were, anything like me, the arrival of this famed catalogue held some sort of magical power.
Special free-admission days at museums around the country have become a popular and apparently successful marketing tool, but some institutions are becoming more particular about which events they participate in.
On the eve of a nationwide free Museum Day Saturday sponsored by Smithsonian Magazine — which many local museums are not participating in — and the “Museums Free-for-All” Oct. 3 and 4 at various Los Angeles and Orange county institutions, museum leaders and others are aiming for the most recognition of their “brand” when it comes to free admission. (more…)
This is pretty incredible and was put together by the folks at Football Made In Africa
Our ambition, a year before the world cup 2010 in South-Africa, is to portray a positive vision of Africa, an Africa that lives, thrives, and enthuses on football. The films and portraits will bring to life moments: poignant, funny, and poetic stories and stills that reflect the imagination and energy that belong to the African soil. The authentic and loveable African spirit brought to life in a simple, memorable and relevant way. An honest, grass root portrayal of football made in Africa.
Thanks for the heads up Alec.
As most of you who visit this site know, a lot of what I talk about is the culture and lifestyle of American soccer. For a while now I have wanted to start a project on TOW that explores the culture of soccer in the US, but from a strictly visual medium. A digital lookbook of the vast soccer culture that is taking place throughout the United States.
Even though the sport faces some difficult challenges here in the US, it has not only survived but continues to flourish. And that is because of the fans around the country that are involved and participate with the sport on a daily basis. So I’m going to be starting a new photo project here on TOW that explores the culture of the sport around the country. From rec leagues, to fans watching games in pubs, pickup games on the beach, fans tailgating, post work matches behind a building, abandoned soccer fields, professional games, etc. All of this, and much more, makes up the soccer culture here in the US and I want to document it via photographs and share it here on TOW. I’ll be taking lots of pictures, and sharing them, but I can’t capture what all of you see and do in your daily soccer lives. So I’m going to ask for your help.
Send in pictures that you take that are soccer related / inspired and we’ll make sure and get them on here. If you can send a little info like when the picture was taken, where, and any other relevant info that would be great. This is going to be kind of like a digital quilt that is made up of images from soccer fans around the country. At least that is my hope.
I’ll go ahead and get this started. I wanted the first picture to be something that had some meaning to me. The goal you see in this picture is from the field at the elementary school I went to when I first moved to Los Angeles as a kid. Nothing about it has changed since I went to school there. There is still no net and the grass is usually overgrown with weeds. But it didn’t matter. I learned a lot about soccer at a young age on this field and it still has a special place for me. Every once in awhile I’ll drive by it and there is a new generation of young soccer players practicing on it and I can’t help but wonder where the sport will be in this country when they grow up.
Location: Golden Springs Elementary School
Date: 2009
Send your pictures to ben[ @ ]theoriginalwinger[ . ]com
“Real Football Factories” host and English actor, Danny Dyer, now stars as Sid Vicious in a new London production, “Kurt and Sid” about a hypothetical meeting between rock icons Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious.
Review after the jump…
One of our immediate goals with Bumpy Pitch has been exploring the history of soccer in the United States. It’s impossible to go down this path without paying special attention to Bethlehem Steel. Bethlehem Steel was one of the early professional soccer clubs in the United States, and also one of the most successful. Bethlehem Steel played their first professional soccer game in 1907, and in 1913 they introduced the country’s first soccer field with stadium seating. Dig that, these cats were playing professional soccer, in their own stadium, in the United States over 100 years ago. Remember that the next time somebody says that soccer doesn’t have a history in the United States. Just like the passion of American soccer fans runs deep, so does our soccer history. We’ve always said that we have to know where we have been before we know where we’re going, and this is a perfect example of that.
