SEMI SILENT

THIS ISN’T ABOUT FOOTBALL


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An improvised football field in Traian Square in Timișoara serves as the backdrop for a neighborhood portrait. The friendly tournament organized by the Casa Jacob Toffler Association in the Fabric neighborhood has, for several years in a row, brought together locals and people from other parts of the city — neighbors, artists, young and old, Nepalese immigrants, a manele singer — for a few days in the fall. Football is just the excuse. The real stake is the visibility of a community under the pressure of gentrification, in a neighborhood where craft beer bars are beginning to replace corner stores, and luxury apartments are gradually pushing to the margins the people who were born and raised there.
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