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If you grew up heavily involved in playing youth soccer, then chances were good you either got down with soccer pins or patches. I happened to be one of those kids that liked to dabble in both the pin and patch world. They weren't mutually exclusive or anything like that, but it was always difficult to trade a pin for a patch or vice versa. Patches ...

Maestro Knows continues to tell stories his way and share his perspective, and the perspective of the people around him in his own style. This one is all about music and how music can touch and influence a life. I couldn't agree more. I've said numerous times on here how much I'm inspired by people who love what they do. Hard to argue that the ...

We like to give shouts outs to the legends of the game here on TOW, so it is only fitting that on the anniversary of 2Pacalype's death he gets a shout out on the page. We cant endorse everything that came out of his mouth, but if you consider rappers: 'the reporters of the street', sometimes just have to accept the bad with the good. I'm a fan of ...

People these days seem to talk about the death of magazines quite a bit. The Internet has certainly sent many magazines packing and it has forever changed the publishing world. But I still love magazines. Even though I get the vast majority of my information online, I still read magazines all the time. In fact, I believe that as the magazine/publishing ...

So I'm searching the web the other day for some stock vintage photos for some particular reason. Then I find this ad. Now I'm a sucker for vintage advertising, and so I ended up on a Internet hunt trying to find some vintage soccer advertising. I found some good and not so good examples of this, some promoted the sport, and some used the sport to ...

As I was working on some new concepts for Bumpy Pitch, I got caught up looking at some of the design elements from old soccer cleats. Some of these date back to the early days of the game, and some of these as recent as the 80's or 90's. Each have their own personality, unique characteristics and their own place in the history of the sport. The boot ...

Growing up in Los Angeles meant that getting to play soccer in the rain was an opportunity that came around way too little for my liking. I caught glimpses of  games played in cold and wet conditions and always thought that was how the game should be played. To this day, I usually choose the rain setting when playing FIFA. With summer blaring down ...