History | In Atlanta, spreading soccer contagion at parade rest (w/ podcast)

Atlanta, Oct 4 | Ron Newman came to Atlanta from the UK in 1967 and started to build the game in literal terms, calling on carpentry skills to construct goalposts out of discarded building materials. He jumped off a Memorial Day float and kicked a ball to youngsters, helping to make his new team, the Atlanta Chiefs of the National Professional Soccer League, a city favorite. With podcast.

History | Soccer fields, for King and Atlanta, lent space to move ‘beyond Vietnam’

Atlanta, Feb 5 | His work in ministry, as a public speaker and as face of the American civil rights movement prevented him from developing strong sporting enthusiasms, but at least once in his career Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto a soccer field.

Metaphorically, King’s strides on the Sacramento State pitch in Oct 1967 point toward soccer as a place of social change in America of the civil rights era.