Archive for June, 2007

Has Canada Found the Beautiful Game?

By Michael Coroneos • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: Media, World Football Culture

Editor’s note: Michael Coroneos, a Toronto FC supporter, will be writing periodically on Canadian soccer for pitchinvasion.net. As your editor discovered himself in May on a trip to Toronto, soccer has taken off this season in Canada. And as Michael explains, the ball is now really rolling.
I woke up this morning in Toronto and […]



Photo daily - 06.30.07 - Lecce supporters

By Thomas Dunmore • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: axes1979 on Flickr via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



Weekend Wrap

By Thomas Dunmore • Jun 29th, 2007 • Category: About this site

We started off this week with a trip to the Gold Cup final, where we watched as a bewildered neutral while the U.S. won on what felt like foreign soil by Chicago’s lakefront. We then held our first battle of the ultras, as Lech Poznan’s video supremacy was challenged by fellow Polish supporters of […]



Gambian Fans and the U-20 World Cup

By Thomas Dunmore • Jun 29th, 2007 • Category: News & Notes, Politics and Economics

The FIFA Under 20 World Cup starts tomorrow in Canada, but it’ll be missing a contingent of Gambian supporters who had planned to travel and watch their team take part for the first time. According to allAfrica.com, 235 out of 250 applications for visas by fans from Gambia hoping to follow their team in Canada […]



Photo Daily - 06.29.07 - Marseille Flags, Coupe de France Final 2007

By Thomas Dunmore • Jun 29th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: milom on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



Ultras video - Focus on the Bad Blue Boys

By Thomas Dunmore • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Hooliganism, Video, World Football Culture

The Bad Blue Boys of the Croatian team Dinamo Zagreb are rather infamous in European ultras circles, and will be the subject of several posts on pitchinvasion.net in the coming weeks. After all, how many supporter groups can claim to have been part of the start of a war? For the Bad Blue […]



Photo Daily - 06.28.07 - Boca Juniors fans

By Thomas Dunmore • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Considering we just covered the dark side of Argentinian football supporters, here’s a lighter side from fans of Boca Juniors, making use of some leftover ship paint.

Photo credit: Dave Amos on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



FC Around the web United USA

By Max J. Rosenthal • Jun 27th, 2007 • Category: American soccer

Note: At Tom’s request, I’m going to try and start doing link round-ups, mostly focusing on MLS and American soccer; links and suggestions are always welcome.

The best way to brand Beckham? Put him in a helmet and shoulder pads. (Check out the video, well worth it.) (Fox Soccer)
Gilbert Arenas will train with DC United in […]



Photo Special: Armed Guard and Young Fan at United States Training Session, Copa America, June 26

By Thomas Dunmore • Jun 27th, 2007 • Category: American soccer, Photography

The United States are currently participating in South America’s Copa America tournament in Venezuela. The above picture was taken at a U.S. training session yesterday. The field is about thirty minutes outside the city of Maracaibo, where the hotel they are staying at is located. The U.S. team is always accompanied by armed […]