Archive for February, 2008

Spirit of Football on Changemakers

February 15th, 2008 by Christian Wach

A little while ago, we entered The Ball into the Changemakers Sport for a Better World competition. The site is dedicated to “building the world’s first global online open source community that competes to surface the best social solutions, and then collaborates to refine, enrich, and implement those solutions.”

Please check out our entry and let us know what you think. Voting by the Changemakers community starts today so we’re keeping our fingers crossed…

[Update] Unfortunately, we didn’t make the short-list of finalists, but we wish all those who did the best of luck and hope that it provides a welcome boost to their projects.

Extreme football

February 11th, 2008 by Christian Wach

A friend posted me this video which I think is a lot of fun even though, in the end, it’s trying to sell you a computer game. It’s at the other end of the scale to our films which use only real locations and no effects. I assume this one uses mostly special effects on top of the parkour-style acrobatics, but it looks great:

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The 2010 Route

The 2010 route

The Ball 2010 left Battersea Park on 24th Jan 2010 is heading to the Opening Ceremony in Johannesburg for the 11th June 2010.

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Most recent comments

  • Miles said:

    Ah Remi Gaillard, how you’ve taken me back to Bristol days – players to each side of the...

  • The Ball said:

    What a great idea. Way easier to give out, but a lot harder to sign!

  • The Ball said:

    Thanks for the fine compliment, Henk. Hope that following The Ball brings a smile to your face...

  • Alive & Kicking said:

    Great blog post guys. My memory of Senegal is there are plenty of table football...

  • Frank Julian said:

    What an amazing journey!