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“But back windows aint much good for looking out. I never did like looking backwards no how. I always did believe in looking out front–looking ahead–which is why I’s worried about Rodney: What do you reckon’s out there in them streets for that boy?”

-Langston Hughes from The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a photo story about a family living at 113 West 134th Street in 1955 New York.

The home of FC Harlem is just a few blocks and more than a half century away…

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the fences have fences in New York.

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but that doesn’t make the play any less playful.

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coaches can’t cover up all the holes of the city.

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life asks a lot of a man.

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and there is more to life than soccer. FC Harlem is working with City College mentors to help cover some more holes.

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what’s your dream? where will you be when looking back on your youth?

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these days disappear quickly. remember them but don’t look back.

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jerry
on Mar 4th, 2008 - 4:49pm

Hey, thats the pitch David Beckam played on I remember the ripped net…

troy
on Mar 8th, 2008 - 6:29pm

The best team in NY at the moment …. Life is a game .. soccer is serious

[...] I have been watching the deal go down in Harlem the last few weeks, Culture of Soccer editor David Keyes has been in Southern California and [...]

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