After a long night it’s time for Showboating Sunday! Let’s “Kickstart” the week & welcome Laree Martin!
After a long night it’s time for Showboating Sunday! Let’s “Kickstart” the week & welcome Laree Martin!
Saturday may have been a little too crazy, but don’t let that stop you from seizing the day! Here’s yet another brilliant set of stylish showboating from the past week. We’ve got a busy one coming up; there’s the epic return leg of the Champions League Semis between Barça & Inter, Bayern & Lyon, not to mention the next set of matches that could determine who will spend the summer as champions of Europe’s biggest leagues.
I personally have finals coming up this week, so if posting is a little slow, don’t worry! Anyway, I’m also throwing in a special musical treat, just because I can. UK-based rapper “Example” is about to launch a brilliant new single next month on June 13th, which is called Kickstarts. The single from his upcoming sophomore album “Won’t Go Quietly.” Kickstarts is an epic, electro-pop piece & it’s definitely something that should start you right and send you straight through to the summer! I know this is making my final exams seem a little lighter than they should, so enjoy & give some feedback!
Although we told you that the roster for our team of writers for the World Cup was full, we made an exception to welcome a footy-obsessed fútbolita, Laree Martin. Laree started following the English Premier League on the advice of a friend after a bad break-up, and has not looked back since. Living the hard, often depressing (not this season though), and sometimes amazing life of a Tottenham Hotspur supporter in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Laree is a well-traveled student who studies literature and military history, but teaches neither of the two. After graduation she hopes to volunteer for the better part of a year in London where she plans to see her boys at ‘The Lane’ as often as she possibly can, and following that either volunteer for another job for the Girl Guides in Switzerland, or with the Peace Corps. This summer, when she won’t be watching the World Cup, she will be teaching kids ages 5-17 environmental education and geology in the woods in the middle of nowhere. Her favourite teams, other than Spurs, are the Chicago Red Stars (Women’s Premier Soccer), Seattle Sounders (Major League Soccer), and the Republic of Ireland National Team.
Laree plans to try and write articles on lesser-known or less highlighted players. The ones who are great talents, but aren’t as well known (at least to an American crowd) because they are over-shadowed by the “Greats” on their team (like Rooney or Messi).
She will also attempt to write about how the World Cup affects South Africa and other nations competing; shedding light to those of us in places of the world where watching the games involve turning on our TV’s, that there are places in the world where watching the games and competing in the World Cup are much, much greater than that. That’s pretty much all you need to about Laree; she’ll be holding down the female perspective with Soraya this summer, so give her a warm welcome to the AFR team!
After the jump there’s a video of Spurs partaking in the crossbar challenge, just because!
