https://hayworthathletic.com/letters/ Stories from the game and the craft behind the ball. Our game. The world’s game. en-us Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hayworthathletic.com/letters/libertad-1938 https://hayworthathletic.com/letters/libertad-1938 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 In 1938 the Ladino brothers of Monguí, Boyacá, registered Libertad, the first football Colombia ever entered on a register, and taught the stitch to twelve farmers the town still calls the twelve apostles. https://hayworthathletic.com/letters/joe-gaetjens https://hayworthathletic.com/letters/joe-gaetjens Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Joe Gaetjens, Haitian forward and Harlem dishwasher, scored the only goal in the United States' 1-0 defeat of England at the 1950 World Cup, and disappeared into a Duvalier prison fourteen years later.