Word: german
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...States, a football team got organized. Football, the real variety, is an American game, too. Since the 19th century, whether it was Scottish mill hands in New Jersey, Portuguese fishermen in Massachusetts, Ukrainian steel workers in Pennsylvania, Italian masons and Irish sandhogs in New York City, or German brewers and shopkeepers in Missouri, one ethnicity after the next established its community and its football, not necessarily in that order...
...where one learned that Portuguese teams have flair and fire, and that a Scotsman has a very broad view as to what constitutes a fair challenge. My European education would continue in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League, in New York City. The CSL began life in 1923 as the German-American Soccer League, but has long served as a melting pot of teams: Blau Weiss Gotchee, Brooklyn Italians, Greek-American Atlas, Polonia NY, Hungaria, FC Bulgaria, NY Albanians, CD Iberia...
...history - and they play every game like it's a World Cup - but my experience has been that when a Greek walks onto the pitch his passion for the game is such that he's one whistle away from snapping. It's not surprising that it took a German, Otto Rehhagel, to channel that energy into the kind of disciplined defense that allowed Greece to beat France, the Czech Republic and (speaking of passion) Portugal, to win in 2004. In Greek neighborhoods such as Astoria, in the New York borough of Queens, the joy was explosive...
...Algerian; Florent Malouda, born in French Guiana, and Congo-born Claude Makelele will feature for France this year. Turkey once exported guest workers to Switzerland and Germany, and is now seeing a return. Several of its team, including Hamit Altintop and Hakan Balta, are German-born. Germany itself reflects Europe's now swirling populace. Two strikers, Miroslav Klose and Lukas Poldowski, are ethnic Poles, and striker Kevin Kuranyi was born in Brazil. An intriguing newcomer, Stuttgart striker Mario Gomez, is a Spanish-German blend whose subtle southern touch made him the Bundesliga's second-best striker behind Bayern Munich...
...bridesmaids will hail from all over the world—Alabama, Cuba and Puerto Rico, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, and Peru. Boehm, 24, will wed Christian Móller, 32, on Sept. 6, two years after they met through mutual friends. Soon after meeting, they discovered that their German immigrant grandmothers knew each other in their home country of Guatemala. While Boehm studied government and lived in Kirkland House, Móller, 32, was still in Guatemala. But the pair saw each other every few months throughout the academic year. When Boehm was offered a consulting job in Germany...