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Breezing through the Walsall backline to announce his first-team arrival in some style last season, Millwall right-back Mahlon Romeo has added fresh fervour to the fight as the Lions bid to break back out of the League One enclosure. While unmistakeably chief producer of his own life’s track, the 21-year-old is from a proud musical heritage, and on the Antiguan international’s playground, both ball and beats are indispensable. Read more →
In some of the most desolate times for a famous old club, Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu was one who offered flashes of hope and excitement to Sheffield Wednesday supporters. Over 12 years since he departed Hillsborough, much has changed for both the Congolese former frontman and his first English club, but there are unmistakably blue and white echoes of the Steel City still safe in his thoughts. Read more →
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The New Englander identity is one Stephanie McCaffrey could never shake off, and nor would she want to. Having spent her young life around a city decked out in winning sporting heritage, the Chicago Red Stars forward has flown the Boston nest in search of some champion consistency of her own, with recent starlit spectaculars to add to the soundtrack reminders of her heartland. Read more →
Earlier in his career, Iceland left-back Ari Freyr Skúlason light-heartedly responded when asked what his new club should expect from him with ‘a crazy man running and fighting.’ Admittedly, the current Sporting Lokeren man brings a lot more to the party than bustle, although in life, football and music, the metronome never really stops ticking for the Euro 2016 ever-present. Read more →
Western New York Flash
A National Champion in college, Taylor Smith became a professional title-winner in her rookie season as part of the Western New York Flash’s unexpected 2016 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) success. For the one-time UCLA prospect, the year was in fact much more about personal reconstruction than blazing a trail, with a first U.S. Women’s National Team call capping it all for the North Carolina Courage forward. Read more →
Beyond the dance-move celebrations and the headphone-clad player stepping off the team bus, lies a whole world connecting football and music. Beats & Rhymes FC tells the stories of how a song lights the fuse on match day, how bands and artists colourise a player's life outside the game, and how music itself can bond an entire team.
The nostalgia of a first album, the weakness in the knees before an initiation song, or even those who've swapped the stadium for the studio. Since 2011, the performers and the personalities from all around the men's and women's game have stepped into this arena to share their soundtrack and more. The features also cover career talk, the teammates, the memories and the lessons learned from a life in this magical game.
