Exactly one year ago, a group of writers from Minnesota decided to go rogue and do something really unique: provide independent, professional coverage of soccer throughout our region.
In one year, we posted over 1,000 articles (most of which were more than one word).
Last year, our writers and editors (over 20 of us) decided to move on from Northern Pitch, to start our own venture, FiftyFive.One (most of you have stopped bugging us about the name change). Since then, we’ve covered a lot of ground. We were one of the only outlets who dug into the NASL off-season near-apocalypse. We broke the stories of Target sponsoring Minnesota United’s kit and Miguel Ibarra’s return to Minnesota.
But beyond these big ticket news items is the daily regular coverage of the small things. FiftyFive.One has begun giving in-depth coverage of our state’s NPSL league, something you cannot find anywhere else. You get weekly recaps of Minnesotans like Kassey Kallman, Cody Cropper, and Mukwelle Akale. You get almost daily news links in the mornings. You also get two weekly podcasts covering the world of soccer from a Minnesotan perspective.
Excuse the bragging, but we feel really proud of what we’ve accomplished in one year. 175,000 people have come to us in this past year looking for news. We couldn’t have done it without those readers and launching our Patreon campaign has allowed some of those readers to take a more active role in helping us keep going. Thank you to those supporters.
In the last year, Minnesotan soccer took a step up to the big stage and we’ve tried to make that step up too. We’ve got big plans and we hope that our readers will continue to play a big part of that. Thanks. Here’s to another year and many years beyond that.
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