Spurred on by downtown L.A.'s revival and affordable rent, Chinatown is rapidly becoming an entirely new place with an influx of inhabitants, restaurants, and businesses. Its interesting mix of tradition and modernity reflects its diverse character, kind of like...
Supporters of LAFC and passionate football fans in Los Angeles were invited to the second edition of the Black and Gold Rally. Beer, singing, drum beating, and some more beer were in order at the celebration which lasted well into the night.
LAFC...
2016 is about to come to an end, but there's still a few weeks to finish the year doing what we love. Football! Here are some upcoming freestyle, street ball, and futsal competitions to close out the year with a bang.
Women's...
It's not often you come across an athlete who moves effortlessly between the disparate worlds of sports and modeling. Ryann Torrero is a pro goalkeeper whose recent stints include winning the 2016 UWS championship with Santa Clarita Blue Heat and...
In addition to being Urban Pitch's Resident Pro, Caitlyn Schrepfer also happens to be one of the top female freestylers in the world. We met up with Schrepfer on a recent afternoon in downtown Los Angeles where she practiced her freestyle...
This edition of Freestyler's Playlist is courtesy of Michael Bliss, a freestyler out of Madison, Wisconsin.
Bliss began playing soccer at an early age and continued throughout high school, where he was recruited to play at Macalester College in St....
Every day, I'm thinking of ways to improve my skills on the pitch. As a soccer coach, I constantly explore new ways to improve player performance, and one ultra effective way to do that is on the beach!
The Red Bull Street Style world final on Tuesday in London's historic Roundhouse concert venue produced a number of thrilling battles, some never-before-seen moves, and a few surprising results. The men's competition consisted of the top 16 in a...
Something revolutionary is happening in Atlanta, GA, and it could easily spread to other big cities. Non-profit organization Soccer in the Streets, in conjunction with Atlanta United and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), has repurposed an open...
After global qualifiers in over 30 countries, the 2016 Red Bull Street Style world finals begins today in London, with 40 male and female freestylers looking to take the title of the "premier freestyle football event" on the planet.
The...
This edition of the Freestyler's Playlist comes from Hamza Bounouader, a co-founder of Chicago Freestyle, who describe themselves as USA's number one freestyling group. A native of Morocco...
Street football in many places is part of the identity of the city where it's played. From the colorful sceneries of South America to the urban landscapes of North America and Asia, you can see that geography, culture, and architecture make...
When Nike first released a video tutorial of the Tac-Tac move as part of the Nike FootballX Skills series, it caused a good amount of controversy, with the online community collectively denouncing it as a McGeady Spin rip-off. To be...
Popular footballers and insanely gifted futsalers Jakob and Josef El-Zein, better known as the SkillTwins, launched their official street football-inspired game earlier this month, and it's like no other...
Imagine an alternate reality where the youth consumer and sneaker culture dictate the way a brand creates, designs, launches, and markets a soccer boot. Instead of a high-profile, professional athlete endorsing the boot to his fans around the world,...
Often seen cruising on her skateboard or riding the waves on her skimboard, Yasmyn Andrade is living the Southern California dream. Originally from a Brazilian beach town called Recreio dos Bandeirantes in Rio de Janeiro, Andrade is a professional skimboarder, singer/songwriter,...
When Daniel Dennehy was a teenager attending university in Dublin, Ireland, he had a map of the world on his wall. Every time he traveled to a new city, in a new country, he dropped a pin on the location. He...
By many accounts football is one of the most accessible sports in the world, based on the premise that all it takes to play the game is a couple of rocks for goals and something that resembles a ball....
This week in our Nike App review series, Kristoffer Liicht of Copenhagen Panna House fame and college baller Yasmyn Andrade give a real-world treatment to the Nike FootballX Skills...
2016 is almost over, but that doesn't slow down the devoted baller or freestyler. With some of the biggest events of the year coming up, it's time to get fired up and focused. Here are your upcoming freestyle, street ball, and...
