Up on a hill, is where we begin, this little story, a long time ago…

Football and the United States are often seen as recent bedfellows, the MLS began in 1993 and the olé football of its predecessor the NASL didn’t begin until 1968, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s a recent import. 

Over the last few months we’ve searched for a photographer that captures the absolute essence of New York City.

My career in soccer is a fantasy, a dream. 

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984

Among soccer fans in the United States there's long been a running joke about the game being communist. 

His name is well known to fans of Paul’s Boutique from one line in “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun”: 

1975.  Now in the twilight of his career, Pelé still created a tidal wave of interest wherever he went, and attracted a sizeable throng of paying punters only too willing to hand over a buck or two for a glimpse of the black pearl.  

In the United States, it is not uncommon to find a Bale or Ronaldo jersey at a local field any day of the week, stressing American's admiration of both players and Los Blancos.

With a calm hand gesture, Thierry Henry waved away his teammate. 

When most football supporters think about the history of the game in New York City they think back as far the star-studded, seismic impact of the New York Cosmos. 

The rejection of MLS and NYCFC by The Borough Boys left space for a different set of would-be fans to begin their own grassroots efforts to support the new MLS club when it was announced in May 2013.

For a certain set of fans the MLS team in New Jersey’s approach and culture never adequately connected to the city it represented. 

On May 14, 2014, two goals in the last ten minutes from towering Haitian striker Yvener Guerrier pushed the Brooklyn Italians past the Jersey Express, and set up a US Open Cup match with the New York Cosmos.

Martin Scorsese’s majestic essay in self-destruction Raging Bull was released on an unprepared public thirty-five years ago.

The North American Soccer League is often the butt of jokes for supporters in better established football nations than the United States. 

It was in the fourth minute of sudden death extra time at Robert F Kennedy Stadium in Washington DC when Lothar Matthäus registered his first assist in Major League Soccer.