Editor’s note: Sam Kelly, author of the excellent English-language Argentine football site Hasta El Gol Siempre, will be writing periodically on Argentina for pitchinvasion.net. Here he addresses the state of Argentinian football as the season ends with the death of another fan.
It was, perhaps, an inevitable end to the season in Argentina. The Apertura [...]
A Guatemala fan, ahead of their Gold Cup quarter-final with Canada.
Photo credit: Dellplain on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
When MLS fans talk about growing the league and making it fully mainstream, the target they have in mind is usually the NHL. Soccer will never eclipse football or baseball, the argument goes, but with time and effort it could easily knock off hockey for a place in the dubious Big Four category. [...]
There was a time when soccer fans in the United States, I am told, were only able to obtain fleeting glimpses of the game via a weekly show on German soccer. I can’t even imagine that; since I’ve been living in the U.S., I’ve been able to watch more soccer cheaper than I ever [...]
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Did soccer fans help elect Buenos Aires’ new right-wing Mayor? (Yahoo news)
Does embarrassment about American patriotism preclude supporting U.S. soccer? (Huffington Post)
All High School boys soccer teams in Utah on probation as players and fans ‘lack sportsmanship’ (ksl.com. Thanks to reader Trevor for the tip)
Do the Galaxy need more Hispanic players to win over [...]
It’s the first pitchinvasion.net battle of the Polish ultras! After we posted this video of Lech Poznan’s ultras yesterday, commenter BoB asserted they were nothing compared to those of Legia Warsaw. So who’s better? You decide (I’m certainly not - Chicago has a very large and avid Polish soccer community, after all).
Kids trying to see the Arsenal football team bus about to celebrate the end-of-season Double Winning Year.
Photo credit: in8vision on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
A sold-out Soldier Field in Chicago saw Mexico take on the United States in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final. 60,000 showed up, with perhaps 50,000 of them coming from Chicago’s million-strong Hispanic population.
