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Hashtag United Dream League Soccer 'Hours from Folding' – How AFC Basildon Became Hashtag United Women FC hashtag united dream league soccer 'Hours from folding' – how AFC Basildon became Hashtag United Women FC. I t feels like “a reward for how hard we’ve worked”, says AFC Basildon’s captain, Alex Bailess, on the team being taken under the wing of the YouTube sensations Hashtag United. “There was a time when the club was literally hours from folding, with no committee, no funding and loads of players had left. Every year we wonder whether we are going to make it through the next season and what the funding is going to be like. It’s just been quite uncertain.” For the uninitiated, in 2016 Hashtag United was converted from a ramshackle seven-a-side team to a team that would compete on YouTube for all to see. The founder Spencer Owen would arrange for the matches, played against staff teams of professional clubs and Sunday league and non- league teams, to be filmed and uploaded to the website. Win a certain number of games and there would be promotion in a fictional league. Now, they have almost half a million subscribers on YouTube and Instagram, close to 200,000 followers on Twitter as well as a men’s team playing more formally in the tier-nine Essex Senior League. The news of their takeover of AFC Basildon, which became Hashtag United Women FC, was met with an outpouring of support on social media. The former England internationals Karen Carney and Sue Smith, Manchester United’s Siobhan Chamberlain, Chelsea’s captain César Azpilicueta and Roma were just a few to express their delight for AFC Basildon, who are in the Women’s National League South East Division 1, the fourth tier of women’s football, and play on Canvey Island. When Hashtag United decided to tackle the men’s pyramid, they were comfortable starting at the bottom. Stepping into the women’s game is a very different landscape though. “Women’s football and men’s football are in very different places, and this team was in a very different situation,” says Owen. “When I met the guys it was made quite clear to me that without the support of someone like us the club was probably going to fold. The level they’re at, the great players they have got and the work they’ve done, it just seemed mad.” Why the decision to step into women’s football at all? “I watched the last few Women’s World Cups,” says Owen. “I’m always up for watching any kind of football and I’ve never thought of it in an insular way.” What surprised him was the response to the Lionesses more widely. “Maybe it was partly that it was a nice footballing time for the nation in general, the men had done well the year before them so there was a lot of hope that is usually not necessarily there. “And people are maybe just a little bit less ignorant about the fact that football isn’t just a load of men running around, it’s about the game and the game can be played in many different ways and by many different people.” He tweeted out a call for teams nearby the Essex based Hashtag to get in touch. “I knew that the dream scenario for us would be, rather than just sponsoring and giving a club some money, bringing something within our club that we could really offer long-term support to and hopefully allow people to profit from the profile and the fan base we have,” he says. AFC Basildon “stood out” as they are the highest ranked women’s team in Essex and are in the – now suspended – County Cup final. “You think on the surface, they are going to be the one that’s most protected, the most set up, the least in need of help but that wasn’t the case,” Owen says. “There were four guys running a club that was massively overperforming, and they had done a fantastic job. AFC Basildon are the highest ranked women’s team in Essex but came close to folding before their takeover by Hashtag United. Photograph: AFC Basildon. “They’ve kept the club going for a year on their own, putting their own money in, all just normal guys with normal jobs, doing it for the love of it. They were struggling financially, [but] not on the pitch. They were doing fantastic on the pitch.” The aim is to offer stability, exposure and “give our audience different kinds of football heroes”. In AFC Basildon they’ve got plenty. Bailess is one of three players working in the NHS. She is a respiratory physiotherapist working in intensive care. “Everything is very different at the moment and we’re all having to be flexible and adapt to new roles and be pushed out of our comfort zone,” she says. Hashtag United live score, schedule and results - Football. Hashtag United live score (and video online live stream*), team roster with season schedule and results. We’re still waiting for Hashtag United opponent in next match. It will be shown here as soon as the official schedule becomes available. When the match starts, you will be able to follow Livescore , standings, minute by minute updated live results and match statistics. We may have video highlights with goals and news for some Hashtag United matches, but only if they play their match in one of the most popular football leagues. Hashtag United previous match was against Braintree Town in FA Cup, Qualification, match ended with result 1 - 1 (Braintree Town won the match). Hashtag United fixtures tab is showing last 100 Football matches with statistics and win/draw/lose icons. There are also all Hashtag United scheduled matches that they are going to play in the future. Hashtag United performance & form graph is SofaScore Football livescore unique algorithm that we are generating from team’s last 10 matches, statistics, detailed analysis and our own knowledge. This graph may help you to bet on Hashtag United matches, but be aware of that SofaScore LiveScore accepts no responsibility or liability for any financial or other loss, be it direct or indirect, as a result of any action reliant on any of this website’s content. In match details we offer link to watch online Hashtag United Live stream. If this match is covered by our partners live streaming service, you can watch Hashtag United on your PC and on mobile - iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows phone. Please note that the intellectual property rights to stream such events are usually owned at a country level and therefore, depending on your location, there may be certain events that you may be unable to view due to such restrictions. You can click on any player from the roster on the right and see his personal information such as nationality, date of birth, height, preferred foot, position, player value, transfer history etc. There are also statistics for each player in all competitions with all total played and started matches, minutes played, number of goals scored, number of cards and much more. Hashtag United top scorers list is updated live during every match. SofaScore Football livescore is available as iPhone and iPad app, Android app on Google Play and Windows phone app. You can find us in all stores on different languages searching for "SofaScore". Install SofaScore app and follow all Hashtag United matches live on your mobile! Hashtag United have conquered YouTube and non-league is next: behind the scenes of a phenomenon. James Harrington and his three sons, George, Jake and Charlie, have made a 90-minute journey from Wimbledon to Tottenham to watch a non- league football match, although dad’s not sure why they’ve bothered. “My mind just can’t process it – they’re more excited about this than an Arsenal game,” he tells FourFourTwo . Spurs’ new stadium is only down the road, but they’re a million miles away from the Premier League. It’s 5.15pm on a Tuesday, and they’ve rocked up at a ground with one stand, turnstile and burger van. There isn’t another fan in sight, but hundreds of thousands of followers will watch highlights of the game on YouTube in the coming days. At 7.45pm, Hashtag United will play their maiden home match at Haringey Borough’s 2,500-capacity Coles Park Stadium – and only the second game in their history – against Hackney Wick in the Eastern Counties League Division One South. If you’ve never heard of them, that’s because until a few months ago they were just an exhibition side playing games against the likes of Google and Copa90, and competing in their own fictitious league formats on YouTube. The club is the brainchild of 29-year-old YouTube star Spencer Owen. A decade ago, he began making his own video content in his bedroom while studying at the University of Reading, before launching his own football channel, Spencer FC, in 2013. Within three years he had more than one million subscribers and in 2016 created Hashtag United, an 11-a-side team made up of his mates. He aimed to film and edit their games into highlights packages, so that ordinary people could enjoy watching other ordinary people play football. However, rather than play in a normal division, Owen decided they should compete in imaginary leagues based on computer game FIFA . Each season would be 10 games long, with Hashtag facing clubs with a similar theme, such as other Sunday League outfits or staff teams from professional clubs.
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