‘Soccer Town, USA’ with SOMAS

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — In a year when the United States men’s national team will miss out on the World Cup for the first time since 1986, join the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School and discover the story of how three boyhood friends helped the USA qualify for its first appearance in 40 years. John Harkes, Tony Meola and Tab Ramos all grew up in nearby Kearny — a small, working-class town with a rich soccer heritage — and benefited from youth soccer, a vibrant street soccer scene and fanatic high school supporters before making it to the National Team. Tom McCabe, an adjunct professor of history at Rutgers-Newark and a scholar of American soccer history, will lead this class on Wednesday, April 18, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at South Orange Middle School’s Little Theater, 70 N. Ridgewood Road in South Orange.
Admission is charged. For more information, call 973-378-7620 or visit www.somadultschool.org.

  SOMA Adult School, South Orange Middle School