Pitch Invasion

Wednesday’s Washington Post Style section features an excellent report, complete with multimedia online, on D.C. United supporters groups — particularly the Barra Brava.
In the beginning, 11 years ago, a real estate agent from Bolivia named Oscar Zambrana bought 15 tickets for the first D.C. United home game. The only way he knew to root for [...]

Say what you will about ESPN’s influence on the American sports marketplace, they are masters of sport as theatre, even in a thirty-second advertisement.

Editor’s note: The English punk-poet Steven Wells has been creating a veritable storm in the world of American soccer with his provocative pieces in The Guardian recently. In his first contribution to pitchinvasion.net (apart from providing the photo in the header image, that is) Josh Crockett considers the question of soccer and American culture [...]