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Gay Game 2010, Cologne Germany
July 31- August 7, 2010
We will be there!!!
Falcons 20th Anniversary Celebration
October 24th, 2009 | Soccer | Dinner | Drag show | Party
| Soccer + Dinner |
| Join us for a soccer tourney at FDR Park from 9 am to 3 pm and dinner at 7 pm . We will play 7 vs. 7 games. Directions to FDR by driving, just go South on Broad Street and making a right into Pattison Avenue. You can also take the Orange line subway: Broad Street line until Pattison Av. Station (The last one). To register for soccer please email Silvina (silvix2006@yahoo.com.ar) and provide her with your name, preferred position, and game level info. Dinner is at William Way Community Center 1315 Spruce St. Philadelphia, PA 19107-5601 (215) 732-2220. | Get directions | |
Registration for soccer closes at 9:30 PM Friday 10/23/2009. |
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Philadelphia Falcons take on 2009 IGLFA in DC
June 14-21, 2009
Philadelphia Falcons sent two women's and one men's teams to the IGLFA world Championship in DC. This was the first time in the history of our club that we are sending total of three teams. Our two women's teams secured the first and second place!
Falcons 2nd Annual Liberty Bell Classic
May 22-24, 2009
Jonathan Newman
Falcons Soccer Club
Philadelphia, PA
“In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.”
~ Thomas Dooley
Time and Again, Soccer
Once, around eighteen years ago, my parents cycled me through several sports, the usual fair for a male growing to adulthood. Basketball, baseball, gymnastics, hockey and soccer- each perceptually experienced, marked on some check listed calendar of boyhood criteria, and conceptually given up after a time. I sometimes wonder whether I would have expressed interest, ever, in these sports, or if involvement of any child in any activity is a complete cultural construct. It wasn't that I wasn’t competitive, or even uncoordinated. There was definitely a certain skill level present for me to be at least decent. (Well, maybe a notch below decent.) A certain level of confidence, too, from exercise enjoyed at school recess, the love of movement, of exercise, of the intrepid encounter. Playing tag. You’re it. That sort of thing.
But after a time, I eventually moved on, as interest waned and curiosity moved to other experiences. Doubts crept in; ultra-competitiveness (not only in soccer, but also in gymnastics) parlayed into frustration- enjoyment wrestled expectations, ending in a standstill. Playing at the Liberty Bell Classic this past weekend, there was a distinct affection for soccer in the faces and banter of each person, a love apart from competition. Perhaps even a love of competition, and of its players, not just of winning. Had I grown up in an environment like this- whether it was my family or my high school- where soccer (or any sport) was praised as fitness and an accepted social outlet- not just as a route to an Ivy League scholarship- maybe I might have stuck with it...read more...continued in our June newsletter!