When beautifully played, soccer has been called art. On Wednesday at 2 p.m. CT, six top Major League Soccer (MLS) prospects will visit Kansas City’s famed Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where they will dip their cleats and soccer balls into paint, and use their movements, kicking, passing and dribbling to originate a one-of-a-kind work of art on a giant canvas.
The larger-than-life painting, created under the guidance of the museum education staff, will then be displayed for a limited time at the museum, and later moved to Sporting Kansas City’s stadium, LIVE
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Sporting Park. The piece will be known as “Creating the Beautiful Game.”
The six prospects, Tony Cascio, Nick DeLeon, Sam Garza, Chandler Hoffman, Luis Silva and Casey Townsend, are scheduled to be in Kansas City to participate in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft presented by adidas, which will take place on Thursday, January 12 (11 a.m. local time) at the Kansas City Convention Center, and will be televised live on espn2 across the United States, as well as TSN2 and RDS2 in Canada.
WHAT:
Six MLS prospects visit Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to create a one-of-a-kind work of art on giant canvas using cleats and soccer balls dipped in paint.
WHO:
Top MLS Prospects:
- Tony Cascio - midfielder, University. of Connecticut; NSCAA First Team All-American
- Nick DeLeon – midfielder, University of Louisville; first team All-BIG EAST selection
- Sam Garza – forward, UC Santa Barbara; Big West Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Year
- Chandler Hoffman – forward, UCLA; MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalist
- Luis Silva - forward, UC Santa Barbara; 2011 NSCAA First Team All-American,
- Casey Townsend – forward, University of Maryland; MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalist
WHEN:
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2 p.m. CT
WHERE:
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kirkwood Hall 4525 Oak St. Kansas City, MO 64111
NOTES TO FANS:
- Please arrive no later than 1:45 p.m. CT
- Entrance to the parking garage is on the west side of the Nelson-Atkins Building on Oak Street. Parking is $5. Museum members park free.
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Please enter through north doors of the original Nelson-Atkins building
