We continue our Humans of NYCFC series with Catherine Lojo, a freelance photographer from Astoria who had her life transformed by a contest launched before NYCFC had even kicked a ball…
As a soccer fan, I was craving to follow a team in New York because it’s my city and soccer is my passion but I didn’t know then that NYCFC was going to completely change my life. When I saw the #5BOROS1CITY photo contest advertised in 2014, I knew this was for me. You were supposed to send in a soccer-inspired picture of New York City, so I dragged my nephew out to Long Island City and I put the NYCFC sticker on one of the viewfinders with the sun setting and a boat passing through.