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...story of Mayer's soccer career is in many ways typical of the old era of female Harvard soccer players, the ones who started just before the sport became so popular and organized...
Running fast handling a soccer ball and booting if into the net have always come easily for Laura Mayer, one of the Harvard women's soccer learns three captains. How ever, finding a team to play on, playing the position she would like and getting the recognition she deserves, have...
Until she came to Harvard four years ago, the Leverett House resident had never played for a school affiliated team. The only organized soccer in Atlanta. Mayer's hometown, was the YMCA league which Mayec and a group of her friends joined when they were nine. The situation was far from ideal; the coaches were usually fathers of the players, and everyone was restricted to playing only one half...
...lack of real competition was not the only obstacle that Mayer faced. Her father a former German professional soccer player himself, did not want his daughter playing...
...didn't think it was a proper sport for a girl In Europe it's a street sport for boys." Mayer explains. "But after a year or two, he resigned himself to it and even thought it was nice...