ONWARD:
Paul Hendren has written about the fusion of motion and emotion for over 30 years. Many wordsmiths inspired his soccer prose, but his admiration for the visual storytellers usually percolated under the surface of his creative spirit. When traveling abroad Hendren would devour the column inches of the broadsheets but his fingertips got a taste of ink while studying the imagery that accompanied the editorial. The proud resident of Agincourt has been fortunate to have worked alongside many talented storytellers and photojournalists. As a long-standing member of the International Sports Press Association, he has recently reinvented himself from being a soccer scribbler to a visual storyteller. His marriage to football has been a marathon, inspired by the likes of Simon Inglis and the photographic genius of legendary Social Documentary Photojournalist Toby Binder as well as Simon Gill from inside the pages of When Saturday Comes. He has spun a few yarns about the global game for such publications as The Soccer News, Inside SOCCER Magazine, World Football Pages, and Groundtastic to name just a few. His football travels have taken him from the depths of Gracia in the shadows of Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, through Mong Kok Stadium to DanteStadion in Munich - a sporting theatre steeped in German sporting lore. As a feature writer for the internationally acclaimed sports facility journal Panstadia International Hendren's work was once featured at the World Football Expo in Cannes. His penchant as a documentary / portrait photographer has led him to his admiration of football's grassroots - displaced from the commercialism that has groped football's big leagues. In Catalonia they call it "Futbol Modest". Hendren has unmasked football beyond the Premier Leagues - down the pecking order of global football's billboard starved psyche and within academia's hidden gems of football culture. His admiration for the grassroots on Canadian soil is reflected in his work for Master's Futbol Academy and their truly honest approach to player development. Contact Touchline Insider by email at [email protected] or DM us on Instagram @paul_hendren or @insidemfa.
Paul Hendren, pictured alongside the late George Best, has enjoyed a fabled football scribbling journey