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Everton Supporters Start Petition For Paul McCartney To Buy The Club
The quickest way to relevancy for any club is to have someone really super rich buy the team. If that really super rich person also happens to be a local and an actual fan of the game, even better: Hence, Everton fans have start a petition for famous blue nose Paul McCartney to buy the club with his ≃$1 billion fortune. Signing up Paul would also have the beneficial effect of keeping out Ukrainian billionaire Oleg Bakhmatyuk, who the fans view as a potential cancer. More »
Sir Alex Ferguson, A Tribute In Art (Including Fergie Riding A Unicorn)
By know you know Sir Alex Ferguson, the venerable and obscenely successful manager of Manchester United, is retiring after this season. Ferguson’s retirement is the event that launched a thousand tributes, be they wordy odes to his managerial greatness or lighter takes on the importance of proper gum-chewing in football management. Here at KCKRS, we’ve decided to do what we do best and combine culture and current events to bring you: Alex Ferguson, A Tribute In Art. More »
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More #NYCFC Design: Dan O’Connor’s City Blue Logos And Shirts
Fresh into the KCKRS inbox is this effort from reader Dan O’Connor for New York City FC’s look. Dan makes heavy use of Man City’s sky blue, and includes the three diagonal stripes from City’s badge in both of his NYCFC designs (and frankly, it’s the most innocuous of the elements in City’s badge). Dan’s shirts aren’t terrible, but both the first and second look too much like Sporting Kansas City designs. The third, though, with pinstripes and sky blue is pretty good. More »
Mark Willis’s Unique Take On #NYCFC Branding
A few things needed saying before we discuss Mark Willis’s unique take on the logo for the newly announced MLS expansion franchise set to start play in New York in 2015 (Don’t know Mark Willis? He’s the guy behind the brilliant baseball/soccer crossover designs): 1. This post will in no way do Mark’s design justice because it doesn’t include his process, which is awesome and totally worth reading, and 2. He fully admits that it’s a direction the team will never take. Now that those things are out of the way, we can begin to talk about how awesome this is. More »
adidas Unveils Lightest Shoe Ever And Sensor-Packed Smart Ball
At just 99 grams, the new, as of yet unnamed, adidas adizero miCoach Elite-enabled shoe unveiled in London this week is so light that the football shoe giant chose the display it in a fairly impressive fashion: floating on a platform held aloft by a magnet. In addition to the lightness of the shoe and the technology embedded in it, adidas also presented a sensor-laded “smart ball”, complete with dedicate app so players can track their progress in all kinds of fancy stat-happy ways. More »
Ronaldinho Chose Sneakers Over Cleats For Copa Lib Match On Artificial Turf
In the first leg of their Copa Libertadores quarterfinal series against Club Tijuana at Estadio Caliente last night, Ronaldinho’s Atletico Mineiro escaped with a comeback 2-2 draw. Ronaldinho himself started and played 90 minutes on Estadio Caliente’s artificial surface, though he didn’t make much of a mark. Perhaps that’s because the Brazilian star eschewed the traditional footwear, replete with studs, for a pair of tennis shoes*. Or, if you prefer, sneakers. Bright orange sneakers, to be precise. More »
Here’s An #NYCFC Badge Design That Is Very Man City
After our call for more New York City Football Club-inspired designs yesterday–since we don’t know what the club’s logo and colors will be–we received this from @spandlegax on Twitter*. It borrows several elements from Man City’s badge, and if we’re reading this properly, does a pretty good job of using New York imagery in the place of Manchester imagery while still resembling City’s badge. Let’s begin. More »
Sir Alex Ferguson, A Tribute In Posters By Giuseppe Vecchio Barbieri
To honor the retirement of Alex Ferguson after nearly three decades at the helm of Manchester United, Italian designer Giuseppe Vecchio Barbieri created this series of stunning posters. Ferguson’s record speaks for itself, but it’s likely he’s never looked so good. Giuseppe has managed to make one of the game’s most iconic figures look…well, iconic. Fantastic. More »
Colombian Icons Of Football And Hair, By Leonardo Ocampo
Italia ’90 was the height of Colombia’s generation of football men with fantastic hair. Carlos Valderrama sprayed passes from midfield with his explosion of golden curls. Rene Higuita prowled his goal with a glorious set of flowing locks. Leonel Alvarez punished the opposition with his patented jheri curl. Colombian illustrator Leonardo Ocampo reminds us of those glory days of Colombian hair with a trio of Italia ’90-inspired trading card designs. More »
New York City FC Prompts Designers Everywhere To Design
When Major League Soccer announced that a partnership between Manchester City and the New York Yankees would launch the league’s 20th team, they did so without providing any of the club’s image. All that was released was a name, “New York City FC”, sans badge/crest/logo, colors, or kits. Naturally, the internet lit up with proposed designs for these elements. Here are a couple of examples. More »
Muangthong United’s Mario Djurovski Goes For The ‘Shorts On Head’ Celebration, Gets Sent Off
Here’s Muangthong United midfielder Mario Djurovski scoring, contemplating, then removing his shorts and wearing them on his head like a hat as he celebrates. For his effort, he received a second yellow card and a dismissal. Not a good look, really, though it does prompt the question of what he might have done to receive the first yellow. Something less revealing, probably. More »
FC Dallas’s Michel Hits An Olimpico, From Every Angle
Nice little video here, of FC Dallas’s Michel scoring an Olimpico in his side’s 4-2 loss to Seattle over the weekend, from every possible angle. Occasionally, Olimpicos rest squarely on the shoulders of the goalkeeper. In this case, Michael Gspurning gets a bit of a screen from FCD striker Kenney Cooper but is otherwise faultless. It’s just a lovely goal from one of the league’s 2013 revelations. Nice work from the FC Dallas video people. More »
Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis Says Next Manager’s Name Starts With An “M”
How this for maturity? Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis, addressing the club’s managerial vacancy now that Walter Mazzari has moved on, told reporters that the next Napoli manager has a name that starts with an “M.” CUE THE WILD SPECULATION. More »
The Only Thing Worse Than This Goalkeeper’s Luck Is This Announcer
Via Deadspin comes this video of the 4A soccer state championship final from the great state of South Carolina between Irmo and Lexington. With the game tied after two extra time periods, the game went to penalties. With penalties tied 3-3, Irmo captain MATTISON GOSSETT (sorry, I’m still hearing it that way in my head) stepped up to take the potential winning kick. Poor keeper Jacob Parton guessed right, got his hands to the ball, and was set to celebrate, only to have some wicked spin trickle the ball over the line for the winner. More »
Argentinos Juniors Fan Throws His Dentures On The Field
Stuck at the foot of the Argentina Primera table and in danger of relegation via the league’s complicated system, Argentinos Juniors desperately needed a win at home to Belgrano. Instead, they lost 1-3 and (what we’re assuming was) an elderly Argentinos fans decided to show his displeasure with manager Ricardo Caruso Lombardi by chucking his teeth at the coach. Beware of flying teeth. Ewwwww. More »
Cuter Than A Bucket Of Kittens: Ross Turnbull’s Son Josh Scores During Chelsea’s Year End Celebrations
It’s not the goal, really, it’s the build up. Josh Turnbull, son of Chelsea goalkeeper Ross Turnbull, scores the cutest goal of all time during Chelsea’s on-field year end celebration. Better feet than his dad. Sign him up indeed. More »
20 Minutes Of Paolo Di Canio Going Off In Post-match Press Conference
Here’s 20 minutes of Paolo Di Canio being Paolo Di Canio after Sunderland’s season-ending loss to Tottenham. This is totally worth watching all the way through. Paolo’s opinions flow like wine. What more could you ask for on a Monday? More »
