soccer

I promise I will not continue to keep pimping my other goods on other sites.  But this time I just had to.  I mentioned last week that I also write for a site called 10Shirt.net.  It’s a soccer/football lifestyle site where we cover soccer culture, videos, fashion etc.  Anyway I was lucky enough to secure an interview with the makers of a documentary that premieres at SXSW this month called Pelada.

I actually posted the trailer for this movie on this site last year when it was called The Soccer Project.  I love this trailer and am very excited to see the final movie.  Here is an excerpt from my 10Shirt article along with the trailer.  Please head on over to 10Shirt to read the interview, I’d really appreciate it:

The US soccer community is an interesting animal.  It seems to never lack good ideas, what it lacks is follow through.  Videos and Blogs come and go each day that have so much potential.  A year ago one such concept was published and within days was on almost every American soccer site on the web.  It was a trailer for a little-documentary-that-could called The Soccer Project.  It has since shed it’s working title, assumed it’s feature title of Pelada, and seems determined not to be one of the great ideas that falls by the wayside.

We at 10Shirt were able to secure an interview with one of the makers of this film Gwedolyn Oxenham.  Gwendolyn is one of the two people this documentary follows, as it whisks around the world documenting the pickup games played on the dirty streets and alleyways in every corner of the globe.  Now with their premiere at Austin’s South By South West set, Gwendolyn sits down to answer our questions.

If you are new to this project we encourage to watch the attached video of the trailer, as well as visit their site and donate to their grassroots efforts in making a film the entire soccer world deserves to see.

LINK TO FULL INTERVIEW

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