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Here’s a film that’s guaranteed to make you feel good all over. Below is a preview trailer for the still-in-the-works documentary The Anderson Monarchs which is about an “an all-girls soccer team competing, living, and thriving in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia”.

Named after the great Marian Anderson and Jackie Robinson’s Negro League baseball team, and coached by Walter Stewart, the team was nominated in 2008 by Sport Illustrated as Sports Team of the Year, and called the “future of American Soccer” by the London newspaper The Guardian.

The film, directed by Eugene Martin, is currently soliciting completion funds through Kickstarter, and is currently just $10,000 short of its $25,000 goal. What better excuse to help out? For more info about the film go Here.

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Allow me to introduce you to Eugene Martin and his feature-length documentary film The Anderson Monarchs. The Anderson Monarchs are an all-girls soccer team who compete, live, and thrive in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia. The director, Eugene Martin, a critically acclaimed filmmaker whose work looks intimately at issues of youth, the inner city, poverty, and social justice, discovered the Monarchs when he began coaching his daughter’s soccer team,...