Serving the Beautiful Game ZIDANE freekickmag.com | July 2009 Contents 4 Contributors 5 Editor's Note 6 Football Under the Rising Sun By Trevor Kew 8 Soccer Shorts 11 Red Card Yellow Card Recipe: Chocolate Chip Banana Loaf By Heather McLean 12 Zizou 16 Football Economy By Michael Oldham 18 Ayurvedic Coaching: The Science of Life By Jeffrey Armstrong (Kavindra Rishi) & Carrie Serwetnyk 20 Cosmo Striker By Piper Bradley 21 Kidz Section 22 SoccerScopes Cover Photo by Martin Bazyl n e wi e s r to e s to nt et E tick P.19 Serving the Beautiful Game David Beckham The power of Football in Africa by Ibrahim Dabo Exclusive Subscription FIFA Women's World Cup CHINA 2007 Coverage August / September August Issue (1/2) . by Carrie Serwetnyk Free Free . 30 min Interview Christine 5 issues for $19.99 www.freekickmag.com Sinclair Hot Yoga with (includes postage) KARA LANG All payments by cheque. 2 free kick July 2009 July 2009 free kick 3 Free Kick Team Fernando Fei, Design & Production Martin Bazyl, Photography Raised in Argentina, Fernando always jokes Martin is a freelance photographer, with a passion that football runs through his veins. His passion, for the game that unites all. Based in Toronto, he knowledge, and design talent gives Free Kick its face. hopes to be a part of a rise and breakthrough in the Serving the Beautiful Game nation where football is the number one played sport. Editor’s Note Editor: Carrie Serwetnyk Carrie Serwetnyk, [email protected] First Woman Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame Lindsay Marsh, Editorial Assistant Neil Humphrey, Webmaster Equipped with a BA in English Lit and a Sustainable Neil is a passionate local coach and suit in the football Design & Production: Fernando Fei Community Development Post-Bacc Diploma, community. His multi-talented skills in competitive [email protected] Lindsay spent 3 years teaching and volunteering in sailing and the beautiful game gave him a compass to ur man on the cover is a face easily recognizable Japan and SW Asia. Her passion for sports led her to travel extensively around the world. Here at home, he Photography: Goga Bayat around the world. Almost. In our country, many many muddy games of soccer with boys and girls at consults in marketing, PR, Internet sectors and all the [email protected] people tilt their head trying to remember why they a children’s home in Thailand. www.go-mad.org. latest soccer junkie info. Beware Voyageurs! might know him. For others, he brings instant joy Feroze Hamid Oand love. Zinedine Zidane is the three-time FIFA player of the Contributors [email protected] year and he is coming to our backyard to play. A tour was set up for him and his “friends” to play in Toronto, Montreal and Mailing Address: Suite 128 Vancouver. For Free Kick Magazine, he is literally coming to Piper Bradley 1917 West 4th, Avenue our neighbourhood. Anna is a 17 year old Vancouver artist who is crazy Vancouver, BC, V6J 1M7 for cartooning…and just a bit crazy in general. She migrates around the city in her cardboard starving Advertising Inquiries: 604.551.7006 Free Kick has organized for 100 children in East Vancouver the artist box doing art for food and stealing your single [email protected] opportunity for a free two day camp which includes tickets to socks from laundry machines. the match at BC Place and a session with Zidane and top stars Editorial Inquiries: 604.551.7006 from Europe. The Britannia Soccer Program could only dream [email protected] Jeffrey Armstrong up such stars on their field each spring when kids wear t-shirts Jeffrey is the Founder of VASA - The Vedic with a variety of countries’ names on the back. This time, Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a charismatic Printing: Mitchell Press French, Italian and Cameroon mega-stars really will strut their speaker and counsellor who teaches the Philosophy stuff. We are extremely grateful to bring this opportunity to the of Yoga as a way of being, and Enlightenment as a Commercial Drive community. way of life. www.JeffreyArmstrong.com Free Kick is a free publication. It is published monthly and distributed to retail soccer stores, stadiums, sporting retailers, community centres, We are also delighted to share experiences from other parts of Heather McLean and many pick-up locations throughout the the globe. Trevor Kew is our traveling writer who now lives Heather's specialty is healthy and alternative greater Vancouver area. For more information in Japan. Having played in Nihon myself during the rise and vegan creations. She lives in East Vancouver. please contact [email protected] or visit our heyday of the J-League, I could relate to his research and expe- website at www.freekickmag.com. riences attending games. Cramming into trains where strang- ers use your shoulder as a pillow while kids across from you munch on small dead fish seemed quite surreal. Often I sang Publisher’s Note: to myself, “I’m turning Japanese” at trainings to amuse myself Michael Oldham over our vast cultural differences. The Japanese fan has their Mike is a soccer journalist from Edinburgh. Why “Serving the Beautiful Game?” Along with Scottish haggis, he eats up anything own unique brand of polite, ordered zaniness. to do with the beautiful game. He is the As a magazine we have the ability to give a much needed producer of football phone-in radio show acknowledgement to individuals who contribute their energy to soccer. Our mission is to serve the players, The economy is a subject we would like to ignore but it is in- and is presently writing a book on the MLS. deed an undercurrent affecting us all. For players like Ronaldo, www.insidesoccerusa.blogspot.com fans, parents and coaches who want information and support for their passion. who transferred to Real Madrid for 142 million dollars (CAD), Trevor Kew we hope his fans can afford tickets to see him play. Regard- Brazilian star Pele’s most renowned quote was when Trevor is a Canadian teacher and writer based in he called “football” the “beautiful game.” The quote less of the crash and burn economic situation hitting businesses Yokohama, Japan who spends most of his time speaks for itself to all those who have played soccer or in every category, football has always been known as the poor playing, coaching or watching football. Trevor admired it in the stands. It hits the mark between how man’s sport and will continue to bring intrinsic joy and passion supports Watford and Manchester United. He also it looks on the outside and how it feels on the inside to billions of people, no matter the story. claims to have fouled strikers on three continents. playing it. Red Card! We feel the combination to “Serve the Beautiful Game” In the case of our journey with the beautiful game, we hope you matches our ambitions as a magazine. will enjoy and embrace our gift of passion to your pursuits. Best wishes, Copyright © 2007. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, without the written permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. Free Kick Magazine is an environmentally friendly publication. Printed on recycled paper. 4 free kick July 2009 running onto the pitch. Japanese players became the focus, which helped bolster the national team. The league now boasts two professional Football Under the Rising Sun Even more surprisingly, they hold on. It ends in a 1-1 draw, divisions and ambitiously aims to gradually increase the Story by Trevor Kew with Uzbekistan, at home. I glance around at the Japanese number of football clubs in Japan to 100 by the year 2092. Photos by Kujira supporters. Hailing from Vancouver as I do, I’ve been as thrilled as t is not the first time I’ve been on a packed train to a “Nippon, Nippon, Nippon…hey! Hey, hey, hey…!” No one is swearing or kicking things. No one is even anyone since the Whitecaps made their recent glorious football ground, but it is the first time I’ve done so with frowning much. Most of the fans, so passionate during the announcement. And so, that day, sitting there in a packed a whole lot of men in suits. Luckily, most are so easy that even a gaijin (foreigner) like match, are simply emptying out of the stadium in an orderly stadium in a nation me can figure them out. manner, bowing slightly when they get in somebody’s way. which didn’t even have I glance around. Where are the football kits? Where are the a professional league scarves? Where are the uncomplimentary songs about the Inside, the large stadium – a legacy of the 2002 World Cup Having lived in both Canada and England, I was baffled. when I started high mating habits of the other team’s players’ wives? – is crammed to the roof with blue and white shirts, large Drawing with Uzbekistan in football is like Canada tying school, I was filled with Japanese flags, smiling faces and a hockey game with Japan. And if England ever drew with hope that professional clapping hands. We find our seats, Uzbekistan at home…well, you know what would happen football in Canada park our beer cups in the drink- then. might this time be here holders and sit back, listening to to stay. the roar of the crowd. It all begins “Is that what Japanese people look like when they’re angry?” to feel pretty much like any other mumbles my English friend.