Showing posts with label UEFA Champions League. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UEFA Champions League. Show all posts
Georgia Art Exchange today announced the list of artists within the Atlanta Soccer Community who will be displaying their work at The Atlanta Soccer Artfest at the Blue Tower Gallery in downtown Atlanta on Saturday May 22, 2010.

Online PR News – 12-May-2010 – The Atlanta Soccer Artfest will be celebrating the Champions League Final while promoting artists: Sergey Cherep, Jeff Lange, Austin McDonald, Andrew Rowe, Alan Vaughan, Thomas Waller and James Stewart II from the Atlanta soccer community. The Artfest will commence at 2pm and game will be presented live from Madrid, Spain at 2:30 pm EST.
Following the game, the Georgia Art Exchange, a local art group, will open the exhibit hall to the attendees. Artwork from metro Atlanta artists from the soccer community will be exhibited at the event. "We are very thankful to Heineken USA, VIGO and our other sponsors for supporting the artists in our community." said QuiQue Lopez, Director of the Georgia Art Exchange. "Their help will go a long way to exposing the culturally rich expressions of these very talented artists to the rest of our community."
The artists' work will be available for sales at the event with all proceeds going to the artists and the ASA Artist Fund, a fund established to promote artists from the Atlanta soccer community. The Artfest will go through the afternoon and the evening with live music, DJs and other performers.
"This is going to be a wonderful event. The timing could not be better. For the first time, we will have the Champions League Final on a Saturday instead on a weekday," added Mitch Cherry, curator of the Blue Tower Gallery and Coach of IPFC. "We are excited to bring together the Atlanta Soccer community for a day of celebration in support of our artists."

The event will be filmed and turned into a documentary by across The Track Productions.
The Event will be sponsored by Heineken USA, Vigo Wire Transfer, Granite Countertop Warehouse, Velocity Screen Printers, G&L Marble, Imperial Pint Football Club and other area businesses.
The Blue Tower Gallery is located at 675 Metropolitan Pkwy. #1113, Atlanta, GA, 30310. 
For more information, visit www.AtlantaSoccerArtfest.com, or call 678-391-9153.




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Alan Vaughan and his Big Chicken Beatles Band will be one of the bands playing at the Atlanta Soccer Artfest, Saturday, May 22, Blue Tower Gallery.  For more event details, visit: www.atlantasoccerartfest.com

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Press Release
Heineken USA and Vigo Money Transfer Sponsors a Celebration of Soccer, Art, Music and the Champions League Final

Atlanta, Georgia April 1 , 2010 Heineken USA and Vigo Money Transfer today announced a joint effort to help Artists within the Atlanta Soccer Community by sponsoring The Atlanta Soccer Artfest to be held on May 22, 2010 at the Blue Tower Gallery in downtown Atlanta.
The Atlanta Soccer Artfest will be celebrating the Champions League Final while promoting artists from the Atlanta soccer community. The Artfest will commence at 1pm and the game will be presented live from Madrid, Spain at 2:30 pm.
Following the game, the Georgia Art Exchange, a local art group, will open the exhibit hall to the attendees. Metro Atlanta Artists from the soccer community will be exhibited at the event.
"We are very thankful to Heineken USA , VIGO and our other sponsors for supporting the artists in our community." said QuiQue Lopez, Director of the Georgia Art Exchange. "Their help will go a long way to exposing the culturally rich expressions of these very talented artists to the rest of our community"
The artists' work will be available for sales at the event with all proceeds going to the artists and the ASA Artist Fund, a fund established to promote artists from the Atlanta soccer community. The Artfest will go through the afternoon and the evening with live music, Djs and other performers.
"This is going to be a wonderful event. The timing could not be better. For the first time, we will have the Champions League Final on a Saturday instead on a weekday." Mitch Cherry, curator of the Blue Tower Gallery and Coach of IPFC. " We are excited to bring together the Atlanta Soccer community for a day of celebration in support of our artists"
The event will be filmed and turned into a documentary by across The Track Productions.
The Event will be sponsored by Heineken USA, Vigo Wire Transfer, Granite Countertop Warehouse, Velocity Screen Printers, G & L Marble, Imperial Pint Football Club and other area businesses.
The Blue Tower Gallery located at 675 Metropolitan Pkwy. #1113, Atlanta, GA, 30304 in Adairs Park. For more info go to www.atlantasoccernews.com or go to www.AtlantaSoccerArtfest.com
or call 678-391-9153 ###
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Two of Europe’s most storied clubs will meet in the Champions League final on May 22 in Madrid (2:30 p.m. ET on FOX) as Germany’s Bayern Munich faces off against Italy’s Inter Milan.

Inter booked its place in the finals by ousting defending champions Barcelona 3-2 on aggregate after a tense encounter at Camp Nou that saw midfielder Thiago Motta ejected en route to a 1-0 loss. Bayern brushed aside France’s Olympique Lyonnais 4-0 on aggregate, with striker Ivica Olic collecting a hat trick on Tuesday to seal their progress.

COACHING COMPARISON

The matchup pits master against student. Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho worked under Bayern manager Louis van Gaal in the early 90s at Barcelona. And in a twist, both men have the chance to do what only two other coaches in history have accomplished.

The late Ernst Happel and former Bayern Munich manager Ottmar Hitzfeld are the only men ever to win a European Cup with two different teams. After this year’s final, they will be joined in the history books by either van Gaal or Mourinho, who both enter with European Cups already on their resumes.

OFFENSE VS. DEFENSE

The match up will pit what is arguably Europe’s most feared attacking trident against the continent’s stoutest defense in a competition that usually rewards conservative tactics. At Camp Nou on Wednesday, Inter demonstrated their twist on the classically Italian defensive style of football, catenaccio, by blunting Barcelona’s attack for a full 84 minutes. Such defensive steadiness and organization is the stylistic hallmark of Mourinho, who led Porto to unlikely European glory in 2003-04 and helped establish Chelsea as an English powerhouse.

Bayern, led by Dutch winger Arjen Robben, boasts an explosive attack. Against Lyon, they were smothering, keeping their front line so high that the French midfielders couldn’t even get a shot on Hans-Joerg Butt’s goal. But Bayern will have to win in Madrid without star midfielder Franck Ribery, who was banned for three games this week by UEFA after a vicious tackle on Lyon’s Lisandro in the first leg of the semifinals.

ANCIENT HISTORY VS. STORIED HISTORY?

While Inter are one of the few teams to successfully defend their European Cup title, they did it over 40 years ago, winning from 1963-1965. Inter’s last appearance in the finals was in 1972, 38 long years ago (it’s worth noting that in the modern era, no team has been able to successfully defend: AC Milan were the last to do it, back in 1988-90).

Bayern is the more storied side, and one of the most successful teams in Europe. The Germans have won the European Cup four times, most recently in 2001, and finished as runners-up three times.

DOMESTIC FORM

Inter is aiming for its fifth straight Serie A title, and currently holds a two-point lead over Roma with three matches remaining. Roma lost to Sampdoria last weekend, allowing Inter to reclaim its place at the top of the table.

Bayern, meanwhile, is locked in a battle for the Bundesliga title with Schalke. The two teams are tied with two matches to go. Bayern can also win the German Cup if they defeat Werder Bremen next month in the DFB Pokal final.

Jamie Trecker is a senior writer for FoxSoccer.com covering the Champions League and European football.
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