Football Nomad

It gives me great pleasure to announce that football photographer extraordinaire Ryu Voelkel has teamed up with Football Nomad. Ryu, whose nomadic lifestyle has seen him photograph everything from Champions League games in Russia to French Ligue 1 matches in Grenoble to the World Cup in South Africa, has been kind enough to share his [...]

What were our favourite places in Europe? Who were our favourite World Cup players? What were our favourite documentary moments? Those questions (and many more) are answered by Andy and Patrick in Football Nomad’s World Cup 2010 Review. Enjoy and as always, let us know what you think by leaving a comment.

You’ve seen it before. A good friend’s team loses an important sporting match. They are inconsolable, their expression betraying a mind furiously debating what went wrong and why it had to happen to them. They wonder, “Why me? Why my team? What did we do to deserve this?” Only in this case it wasn’t a [...]

Holland’s shock win over Brazil meant a short train north to Amsterdam, rather than a much longer flight to Spain, for the semi-final stage of the 2010 World Cup. Amsterdam was a fantastic venue to watch Holland’s sensational win over Uruguay. The streets were coloured orange, traditional football music blared from cafes and bars all [...]

For almost the entire Football Nomad trip, Patrick and I were able to evade the lure of cheap European beer and subsequently maintain our dignity as civilised football culture observers. (Un)fortunately, that all changed in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Veldhoven is small village of 40,000 people just outside the much larger city of Eindhoven, home to [...]