Saturday, April 24, 2010, 4:00 pm
Club B-10
$8 adults/ $5 kids/ 10% Member discount
Member tickets are not available via the internet.

We Call It Soccer: The USA's Influence on the World's Game -- A few weeks before the 2010 World Cup reignites the world's biggest passion - and for the very first time in Africa - several questions arise: Does the United States' recent emergence as a player on the international soccer scene influence and improve the global game? If so, how? And how is the world reacting to the Yanks' arrival?

Moderated by Adam Spangler, founder of This Is American Soccer blog and former Vanity Fair editor, the panel features Steven Stark, a former commentator for NPR and CNN who recently published "World Cup 2010: The Indispensable Guide to Soccer and Geopolitics"; Greg Lalas, editor in chief of MLSsoccer.com (official website of Major League Soccer); and Zohair Ghenania, former MLS player now staff coach at French club FC Lorientl

This panel discussion is presented as part of MASS MoCA's Kicking and Screening Soccer Film Festival.

Kicking and Screening Film Festival Schedule

Friday, April 23

• 1:00 p.m. Sixty SixEngland is about to be consumed by World Cup fever, but for 12-year old Bernie, his Bar Mitzvah looms large
• 3:00 p.m. Soccer Juggling Demonstration with Freestyle Soccer, the premier freestyle juggling posse in North America
• 8:00 p.m. Feature film: Les Yeux Dans Les Bleus a penetrating documentary that follows the 1998 World Cup victorious French team.

• 1:00 p.m. Soccer ShortsIn the Blood, Mauro Shampoo Soccer Player, Hairdresser and Macho, and Beyond Soccer (Loucos de Futebol)
• 3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: We Call It Soccer: The USA's Influence on the World's Game
• 8:00 p.m. Feature film: 90 Minutes: The World Cup of New York City A group of New Yorkers from 32 countries experience the 2006 World Cup in the city.