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...team is more talented up front, and rock solid as ever at the back. "You're looking at a team with five or six guys that are 6 ft. 3 in., 6 ft. 4 in.," says Keller. "They can still be mechanical - we are going to win a free kick - then there's going to be five monsters flying into the box." Pencil in the monsters for the semis...
...like the Italians. Yet Spain's game, says Keller, "is the style of game that everybody wants to see. Everybody has respect for Sweden. But what do you want to watch?" As a goalkeeper, Keller doesn't want to watch Cristiano Ronaldo standing over a free kick, or Ruud van Nistelrooy anywhere near the box. "You don't even know he's there," he says of the Dutch striker. "You turn around and the ball's in the back of the net." And Van Nistelrooy will have Real Madrid teammates Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder in support, along with Arsenal...
...others cared at all. I had to kick and scream to get my journalism school to make calls on Mohammed’s behalf. Was I asking the wrong questions, or did nobody really care? What I learned was that there was no safety net in place, no default call to arms that journalists around the world would heed and come to aid a brother. I’ve had to call governments, embassies, Congresspeople, all on my own, and I’m afraid I haven’t done a good enough job as far as Mohammed...
...first in eight years over the Big Green—highlighted the turnaround season and displayed the young talent that carries Harvard into its 2008 campaign. In its Oct. 20 matchup against the Tigers and eventual Ivy Player of the Year Diana Matheson, the Crimson used a free-kick goal from Nichols just one minute into the match and two tallies from Sheeleigh to power a 4-2 victory at Ohiri Field. This offseason, Harvard enjoys an advantage it hasn’t in the past three seasons: it will work with the same head coach for the second consecutive...
...second-half team. Despite Harvard’s sterling talent and physical prowess, its imperfections would soon come to a head.The match against the Bears carried major Ivy League implications, and the game teetered on the brink of physical calamity with every 50-50 ball. Despite missing a penalty kick in the first half, Harvard willed its way into overtime with sophomore Kwaku Nyamekye’s equalizer in the 83rd minute.“[Kwaku] reads the game very well,” head coach John Kerr said. “He comes up with some unbelievable plays...