Features writer and seen on video for @goalusa • Failing football hipster • 🇬🇧 in Brooklyn
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On November 4, USL Championship club North Carolina FC announced it would shut down operations at the end of the season - just four days before a crucial playoff game.
I talked to some of the players about the human cost of seeing your team fold
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The journey to NY/NJ Stadium from Penn Station ran smoothly on Saturday. The people were nice. The trains were on time.
The issue? This was a commute to work, not an epic venture to a World Cup match.
On a sterile trip for a tepid contest…
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“This is America. They don't understand the culture. They see drums, they see people standing on the seats. It's too much.” - Brazil fan, summing up this 1,500 word thing relatively succinctly.
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Yan Diomande, at just 19, is Ivory Coast's star. He will go for big money this summer. His rise has been rapid.
But he was developed in lower league American soccer. I talked to him about how an unlikely stint in the UPSL shaped his career.
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Absolutely obsessed with the fact that Brazilian soccer is so popular in Curacao that their best player’s first name is “Juninho”
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Curacao is charming: the smallest nation to qualify for a World Cup, use of dual national talent, island vibes.
But the country has a complicated past - racial tensions, rioting, and, ultimately, harmony.
That story, from Willemstad:
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BANG
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CURAÇAO SCORES ITS FIRST-EVER FIFA WORLD CUP GOAL 🇨🇼
THE SMALLEST NATION TO EVER QUALIFY HAS ITS MOMENT!
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“We're going to celebrate. If we have a corner, we're going to celebrate. A red card, a yellow card, the first penalty, the offside. We're going to celebrate.”
@Tom_Hindle_ went to Curaçao this spring to document their World Cup journey. Read it:
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Jun 14
Talked to an England fan yesterday who rented a dodge ram in Texas “because it felt American, mate”
An excellent summer of content.
These Scottish lads doing the full American experience at Fenway
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New York/New Jersey (MetLife) stadium for a FIFA World Cup match.
(Brazil-Morocco)
Rather cool.
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Jun 13
Aaaaaaaand Morocco score and I am right.
Absurd pass from Brahim Diaz.
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Jun 13
Of course Vini Jr has the response. Lovely pass from Bruno Guimaraes, Vini does the rest.
Out of absolutely nowhere we have a game.
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Getting on the train from Brooklyn to MetLife… first kit seen? Haiti.
Followed immediately by a signed Corinthians shirt.
World Cups are bloody great.
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Followed by a dad in a Brazil shirt, with (presumably) his children wearing Argentina Messi kits.
Not sure if that’s good or bad parenting.
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Tbf it’s really smooth on the NJ transit. Workers organized. Fans looked after. Easy to get through.
“It’s really fun” - a very friendly volunteer.
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Objectively hilarious that the conductors who usually drive to Dover, New Jersey have to scan tickets in midtown.
Not the job they signed up for.
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Jun 12
A guy has turned up to the pub in Williamsburg with his Panini swaps all sorted in a special folder 🥹🥹
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A little under five hours until #USMNT take on Paraguay. A look at five keys to the game, in video and written form:
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