After just touching the NYC landscape a week ago, Banksy went after the big wigs of Wall Street with this piece.

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Beans, Ace, I.S.P.S and myself are making our way to the NYC tonight (red eye-ing it) for tomorrow’s 1st Annual Grassroots Soccer United.

The game itself will be played at the Lions Gate Field in Sara D. Roosevelt park (corner of Christie and Grand) in downtown Manhattan tomorrow October 2nd at noon with Hollywood United facing off against Ethan Zohn’s celebrity team in a charity match for the Grassroots Soccer Organization.

East Coast - Leslie Osborne (US Women’s Ntl Team, 2007 World Cup)
Shep Messing (broadcaster; U.S. Ntl team -1972 Summer Olympics, New York Cosmos NASL)

Players:
Mark Consuelos (television and film actor)
Youri Djorkaeff (former French national team, 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000)
Sean Evans (writer -Rush and Molloy, Daily News)
Steve Jolley (former New York Red Bulls, FC Dallas, 9 year MLS veteran)
Tony Meola(2000 GK of the Year,MLS; former US Natl Team;1990, 1994 & 2002 World Cups)
Yannick Noah (French Open men’s singles title 1983)
Heather O’Reilly (US women’s Ntl Team, 2007 World Cup, Gold medal 2008 Beijing Olympics)
Anthony Sullivan (“Pitchmen” You Design It - They Mine it – the world’s finest pitchmen)
Ethan Zohn (Co-founder Grassroot Soccer; 2002 Survivor Africa winner)

West Coast
David Hirshey (columnist, ESPN Page 2)

Players:
Brian Dunseth (former MLS player, color analyst (FOX))
Richard Gough (former Scottish Ntl Team)
Jimmy Jean-Louis (actor, Heroes)*
Alexi Lalas (former US Ntl Team, 1994, 1998 World Cup, US Soccer Hall of Fame, 7 year MLS)
Anthony LaPaglia (actor, Without a Trace, president Hollywood United Football Club, Australian National Soccer League, part owner of A-League club Sydney FC)
Frank LeBeouf (France World Cup winner 1998)
Donal Logue (actor, The Tao of Steve, other television and film)*
Costas Mandylor (actor, Saw)
Gilles Marini (actor, Sex and the City)
Kyle Martino (former LA Galaxy)
Brandon Routh (actor, Superman)Following the match, a special post game event will be held at the Marquee at 7pm, hosted by Ethan Zohn with Michael Strahan and Claudio Reyna co-hosting, with the aim of raising AIDS awareness among African youth.

Much, much more to come……

Last night marked the final game at Yankee Stadium. Many world class athletes played in The House That Ruth Built, including Pele. Pele first visited the stadium in 1966 as part of Santos (Brazil) vs Inter Milan in an international friendly. Later, Pele joined the NY Cosmos. In the picture above, Pele scores against the Washington Diplomats in the first round of the NASL playoffs, 1976. Yankee Stadium was home to the New York Cosmos in 1971 and 1976.

Before the Meadowlands was constructed, Yankee Stadium was always the preferred destination for barnstorming sides from Europe.

BigAppleSoccer discusses the history of soccer at Yankee Stadium here and here.

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UPDATE - If any of you out there are planning to hit up this great event, let us here at The Original Winger know as I am playing in the afternoon Charity game and the entire Los Angeles based TOW crew (myself, Beans, Athe and I.S.P.S. with Joe heading down from Beantown) are heading to the NYC to be apart of this great Thursday night event at the Marquee and will be meeting up with the Designated Player crew of Ives (Soccer By Ives), Shawn (The Offside Rules) and Adam (This Is American Soccer). Sadly, I don’t think Bruce (DuNord) will be able to join us as all the rest of the crew is in the NYC locale, but hopefully he can.

On Friday we’ll be heading up to Boston (for the Real Salt Lake at New England Revolution game) and the TOW crew will definitely be hitting up Beantown both Friday and Saturday night, so if you’re going to be around and want to get down with us, let us know!

More updates to come….

A very cool event by host Ethan Zohn, who’s use of our game is and has been constantly raising money for the education of AIDS awareness to children in Africa that many celebrities, athletes and everyday people are getting behind, taking place on October 2nd in New York City.

For more Information, head over to GrassRootSoccer.

We (Bumpy Pitch and The Original Winger) along with Hollywood United will be at this event to be a part of it, will you?

London based CutUp made it’s mark in the NYC over the weekend.

For more of their worldwide work, check the pics after the Jump….

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The New York Mets are looking into purchasing a Major League Soccer club after completing construction of Citi Field, the new $600 million home the baseball team will move into for the 2009 season, said David Howard, the club’s executive vice president for business.

Howard said an MLS team likely would play in a different venue that would give the team a chance to host other events as well. “We’re not resting,” Howard said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio’s On the Ball program, airing Sept. 13. “Before even Citi Field is completed, we’re looking to see what might be next for us. There’s a lot of opportunity and potential”

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Beans, Ace and I just sat down for the start of tonights Barcelona @ NY Red Bulls friendly at Giants Stadium.

So far the MLS boys are holding strong defensively, but like most of the matches that see high profile Euro teams coming over this way, NY is having trouble keeping possession going forward.

When your teams leading scorer is you Left-Back (van den Bergh with 5 Goals) and you’ve just lost the 2nd best talent on the team in the form of Jozy Altidore, you might want to start tapping into the International market instead of looking for D-mids and Defenders.

And doesn’t Rojas remind anyone else of The Bruce?

Scoreline,Updates, Highlights and the Central Park Training after the Jump…

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This past weekend New York hosted the adidas Fanatic VII. A few weeks ago was LA’s version which was won by The Syrup Kidz. These cats not only won the LA event, but they won last years competition in NY and won it again this year. Dunny and I saw them play out here in LA and they had some game for sure. We got a Bumpy Pitch team in the works that hopefully will challenge The Syrup Kidz next year. Check out some pictures after the jump.

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