July Favourites
✨ Euros, photography, Matildas, Rashford, and a The Good Football documentary(?)
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June favorites
Happy August!
The month when nothing seems to function here in Barcelona, and you might just find a piece of paper stuck to the door telling you the shop’s closed for the holidays.
It kinda forces us to take it easy too, and enjoy the nice weather, good beaches, and slower days. I still forget that this is what August is supposed to feel like and what it allows us to be, coming from the southern hemisphere and all, and I’m happily trying to be better at taking hints from the seasons on how I can approach life at the moment.
Women’s EURO
Of course, this was the main topic of the past month, and, even though I’m still sad and a bit bitter about Spain losing the final, it was such a great ride to watch the games and soak up all the content about excited crowds, emotional fans, and records being broken. I also got to help the adidas Foundation tell the story of “Legacy for the Future”, their project in collaboration with the UEFA Foundation, created to leave a lasting legacy for girls and women in the participating countries through local partner organisations. What an honour!
I also happened to be in Berlin during the first week of the Euros and got to experience a game there. Remember I told you about Andrew Weber in the June favourites post? We met in person and watched a game at a packed open-air biergarten. I got to meet his friends (who are all great, by the way. Hello mates 👋 if you’re reading this!), he met a friend of mine, and it was just such a good time. Not only did I get a bit emotional seeing so many people gathering to watch women’s football, but it was also really cool to have these connections happening because of The Good Football.
I hope the Euros’ popularity, success, and growth also spill over into the Copa América Femenina, WAFCON, Women’s Asian Cup, and beyond. The world deserves to experience women’s football this fully, and the game deserves to be appreciated like that.
A summer course on documentary writing
I went back to school for two weeks to study scriptwriting for documentaries at ESCAC, a great film school here in Barcelona. I saw an ad on Instagram and decided to go for it, and it turned out to be such a great experience that added so much and brought new perspectives to my writing and storytelling.
One of the highlights was the daily exercise we did: writing about something we’d seen or experienced in the past 24 hours. It’s incredible how such a simple practice can make you more observant of the world around you, and how you can give new meaning to what you see, just by telling it. Thank you to my teacher Joan Pamiès, who also turned out to be a bit of a football freak like us.
I went into the course not really knowing what to expect, and I definitely wasn’t expecting to leave with an idea for a The Good Football short doc series. Who knows what might happen now. 👀
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