Crew White House visit: A recap
July 31, 2009 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Columbus Crew SC News Release
COLUMBUS, Ohio - With accounts of the Crew's visit to the White House earlier this month gradually starting to feature less prominently on many sites, below is a compilation of links for current and future reference chronicling the July 13 trip, including the Rose Garden ceremony where it was recognized by President Obama and community service event that followed.
White House video of the Rose Garden ceremony: http://www.whitehouse.gov/video/President-Obama-Welcomes-the-Columbus-Crew/
Text of President Obama's remarks: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-honoring-the-2008-MLS-Champion-Columbus-Crew-Soccer-Team/
White House 'Behind the Scenes' video at White House blog, including footage of the service event: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Behind-the-Scenes-with-the-Columbus-Crew/
Same video embedded in Serve.gov's Stories of Service Blog: http://www.serve.gov/stories_detail.asp?tbl_servestories_id=32
Guess where the majority of White House video traffic came from? Find out here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/White-House-Video-Going-Global/
TheCrew.com video: http://columbus.crew.mlsnet.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5571043
TheCrew.com Photo Gallery: http://columbus.crew.mlsnet.com/gallery/photogallery.jsp?pathid=200907145870518&vkey=t102
TheCrew.com reports: http://web.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20090713&content_id=5863190&vkey=news_coc&fext=.jsp&team=t102 and http://web.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20090713&content_id=5865714&vkey=news_coc&fext=.jsp&team=t102
Columbus Dispatch report: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2009/07/14/crewvisit.ART_ART_07-14-09_C1_BPEFGMA.html?sid=101
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