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Copyright 2010 by Teofilo Colon Jr (a.k.a. “Tio Teo”) for Being Garifuna. All Rights Reserved. Contact Tio Teo.
February 20th 2010.
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East New York, Brooklyn — Included here are a few photos from a Soccer Game at Linden Field (a.k.a. Gershwin Park) in the East New York section of Brooklyn, New York. I didn’t get the names of these Soccer Teams.
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This Soccer Game took place on AUG 31, 2009. Photos from the outskirts of the game (and it’s festival-like atmosphere) are also included in the album.
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I mostly grew up in this neighborhood (I attended George Gershwin Junior High School, which is adjacent to the field) and often went to this park on Sunday afternoons as a child. That’s when the soccer games took place and that is also where relatives of mine sold food (breads, etc) on the sidewalk just outside the field.
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I never liked Soccer as a sport, but I acknowledge it’s place as a worldwide phenomenon and a place where athletic prowess and competitiveness played out on a weekly basis in the Summer.
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I have these photos on a Photo Album on the Being Garifuna Facebook Page. I may transfer those photos to my Flckr account or something.