This Damn Thing Keeps Spreading
Next Friday (6th) author Gabriel Kuhn will be speaking at Easton Community Centre about his book Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics. The details of this talk can be found in a previous post. The book contains quite a lot about the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls and our network of friends. Gabriel has in fact started a new team in Stockholm of which he says:
We’ve finally got a kind of alternative football team in Stockholm off the ground. We founded a sports club, 17 SK, as a part of a new network of local initiatives and community groups along the southern end of the subway line no. 17 – hence called Nätverket linje 17. It’s all very new and we’ve only played twice so far (we plan to play every tuesday), but I’m hopeful. We’ve already drawn more than a dozen people to the network who would have never ever got in touch otherwise. There is also a children’s and youth group in the network, and we’ve been talking about starting a gender-mixed U10 team. We’ll see. In any case, the Easton Cowboys/Cowgirls are, along with the fine folks of FC Vova, named as role models on our web page!
If you look a the afore mentioned webpage you will find an article in Swedish which could well be a recipe for pickled herring. However, Google Translate, which is far wiser than I, reckons it says:
17 SK Network’s Line 17’s sports club. We want to create an opportunity to play sports in a compassionate and non-race-oriented environment. We also want to use the potential of sport to bring people together, to get to know each other and to share joy, laughter and exercise. Our role models are compounds Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls in England or FC Vova in Lithuania has managed to combine sports and social engagement.
We begin by Lira football once a week on Kärrtorps IP. As of April 19 we will meet every Tuesday, at 18, on the grass behind the gravel. Everyone is welcome!
If you want to start up other activities within 17 SK leave a comment, send an email, please stop by Kärrtorps IP on a Tuesday night or take it up in a big meeting!
just for your information: i've finally got a kind of alternative football team in stockholm off the ground. i founded a sports club, 17 SK, as a part of a new network of local initiatives and community groups along the southern end of the subway line no. 17 - hence called nätverket linje 17. it's all very new and we've only played twice so far (we plan to play every tuesday), but i'm hopeful. we've already drawn more than a dozen people to the network who would have never ever got in touch otherwise. there is also a children's and youth group in the network, and we've been talking about starting a gender-mixed U10 team. we'll see. in any case, the easton cowboys/cowgirls are, along with the fine folks of FC vova, named as role models on our web page! http://forsjutton.se/?page_id=252