Kicking + Screening is going on the road to Colorado Springs as part of the United Soccer League’s annual marquee event, the USL Summer Showcase, presented by Hisense.
K+S has partnered with the USL, the Colorado Springs Switchbacks, and the Independent Film Society of Colorado for a special screening of BIG-TIME SOCCER: The Remarkable Rise & Fall of the NASL.
The screening takes place on Monday, August 7, at 7:00PM MT, at one of the coolest meeting spots in the Springs: Ivywild School.
Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door.
Directed by Rachel Viollet, Big-Time Soccer tells the incredible story of the 1970s league that kicked off the modern American soccer movement.
Official Synopsis:
Nearly 40 years since its demise, the North American Soccer League continues to linger in the memories and imaginations of soccer fans across the United States — and beyond. The colorful, oftentimes controversial league attracted some of the game’s greatest players: Pele, Best, Cruyff, Muller, Beckenbauer, to name a few. Crowds of 70,000-plus flocked to games as the NASL brought star power to a country where soccer had been virtually invisible just a few years earlier.
It was as if a huge soccer circus had arrived to entertain America. But it couldn’t last. For many fascinating reasons, the NASL did not survive.