Steve Amoia over at SoccerLens has two excellent articles up about The Fugees. After the publication of an excellent article in the NY Times early last year, The Fugees were all over the blogosphere and we posted a few things about them as well. But once the buzz subsides, it’s always good to see how [...]
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Update on The Fugees
How awesome is this? Bob over at The Offside notes that Universal plans to make a movie based on The Fugees, and part of that deal includes $500,000 to build soccer fields for them. Obviously, this is one team out of thousands who play in substandard facilities in towns hostile to their sport. But it’s [...]
Remember – Nobody Cares About Soccer In The US
The blogosphere was buzzing today about the story of The Fugees, a soccer team of mostly African refugees that wasn’t allowed to use their city park to play soccer and faced many challenges. As I write this, 67 blogs have written about this story and it was the most emailed story from the NY Times [...]
A Story of Hope and Hostility
The NY Times has an in-depth article up today about a youth team in Clarkston, Georgia that faces hurdles most youth soccer teams could never imagine. It is an illuminating look at a situation where a team not only faces the usual ‘we hate soccer’ mindset found in many small towns, but also faces an [...]
