memoire
Yrsa Roca Fannberg, from the male bonding series (2009)David Lynch might have scripted some of the
scenes in our experiment with the American Youth Soccer Organization. Some days, things would be
that baroque, that strange. This was especially true when it came to the security guard hired by
AYSO to monitor the field.
Yrsa Roca Fannberg, from the male bonding series (2009)David Lynch might have scripted some of the
scenes in our experiment with the American Youth Soccer Organization. Some days, things would be
that baroque, that strange. This was especially true when it came to the security guard hired by
AYSO to monitor the field.
Terrance Stamp, as Billy BuddIn the opening pages of
Billy Budd, Herman Melville comments on
the unique charm of a type of man he called the "Handsome Sailor":
A superb figure, tossed up as by the horns of Taurus against the thunderous sky,
cheerily hallooing to the strenuous file along the spar.
Michael Wells, from a series of portraits of games in Lafayette Park, published in Municipal de
Fútbol
Many of my recollections of this experimental league could be shaped like a scene from
Crash, minus the sentimental recuperation of collisions between racism, sexism, xenophobia,
etc. Other memories tap into a very different experience of Los Angeles.
The Rest
Riyas Komu, from exhibit "Safe to Fight" (Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, 2010)Fear of ACL injury has
replaced fear of intimacy as my number one issue. Plenty of people come back from an ACL tear and
still play in leagues and pick-up games. But plenty also leave the sport forever.
If I turn a cold eye on my fear, I see that I am less afraid of never playing soccer than I am of
the rehabilitation that it would take to go from a torn ACL to playing again.
