Find A Goal. Put a Ball In It
Well, it finally dropped. The first Dutch article about the FC in the post-Stam/Nijkamp era. Writing for the magazine Hard Gras, Thomas Heerma van Voss published an interview with former FC data analyst Alexander Schramm, his childhood friend.
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In writing there’s a saying: “Kill your darlings.” It’s such common advice that it’s beyond cliché at this point. But if somehow you haven’t come across the phrase (I’d say that all in the FC mediaverse are avid readers but I’d be “Lion”) it basically means that you can’t fall in love with a specific part of your writing because anything that doesn’t serve the overall piece needs to be cut. And you have to be ruthless.
Deep down, you already knew this was the case. You knew it in 2016 the first time you walked into an FC Cincinnati match and saw 10,000+ people walking into a college football stadium to watch division 3 soccer. Now, in 2021, it’s crystal clear: Cincinnati is the soccer capital of America.
I had heard of the rise of soccer in this faraway land. I heard stories of Cincinnatites gathering by the dozens in support of a third division soccer team, when the sport didn’t exist within city limits even five years prior...
We’re back after a short hiatus (I know this will shock you, but your boy the Chief here doesn’t get paid for writing this column and *does* get paid for other stuff that occasionally need his full attention) and ready to dispense more takes! Did you miss it? Of course you did!
