The 2023 USL Summer Showcase, presented by Hisense, is coming to Colorado Springs August 7-10, and the annual midsummer event is getting bigger and bigger.

Building on last year’s expanded Showcase event, the USL is thrilled to launch “Soccer Film Night @ Summer Showcase,” a new fan event presented in partnership with the Independent Soccer Film Society of Colorado and the Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival.

The inaugural Soccer Film Night will take place on Monday, August 7, at 7:00PM MT (doors open at 6:00PM) at the Ivywild School, featuring the film BIG-TIME SOCCER: The Remarkable Rise & Fall of the NASL.

Directed by Rachel Viollet – whose father Dennis Viollet played for Manchester United and coached in the NASL – BIG-TIME SOCCER tells the incredible story of the original North American Soccer League, which ran from 1967 to 1984. 

Official Synopsis:

• Nearly 40 years since its demise, the North American Soccer League continues to linger in the memories and imaginations of soccer fans across the United States — and beyond. The colorful, oftentimes controversial league attracted some of the game’s greatest players: Pele, Best, Cruyff, Muller, Beckenbauer, to name a few. Crowds of 70,000-plus flocked to games as the NASL brought star power to a country where soccer had been virtually invisible just a few years earlier.

• It was as if a huge soccer circus had arrived to entertain America. But it couldn’t last. For many fascinating reasons, the NASL did not survive.

Tickets are $10 in advance/$15 at the door.