Word: reyna
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...hard to read Reyna Hernandez's distress behind her blue surgical mask. But you can hear it. "This is a very difficult time especially for our children," the Mexico City housewife says as she waits outside the National Institute for Respiratory Diseases (INER) on the metropolis' south side. Inside the hospital, her 38-year-old husband, a taxi driver and father of their three kids, lies in a bed, unconscious and barely alive, she says, battling what doctors have told Hernandez may well be swine flu - but which was originally misdiagnosed. More than two weeks ago, her husband developed...
...junior forward Andre Akpan was named as a semi-finalist for the Hermann Trophy, the most prestigious individual award in men’s Division I soccer, placing Akpan as one of the top 15 players in the country.Past recipients of the Hermann Trophy include American soccer-greats Claudio Reyna and Brad Friedel. “We kind of expect this sort of thing from Andre, so it wasn’t much of a surprise,” co-captain Michael Fucito says. “But we’re glad he’s getting the recognition...
...team has something to root for in the upcoming weeks. The semifinalists were named Saturday, and three finalists will be chosen Friday, Dec. 12. The winner will be announced four weeks later on Friday Jan. 9. Past recipients of the Hermann Trophy include American soccer-greats Claudio Reyna and Brad Friedel. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...beauty of [European football]," says Reyna, "is that you have countries that border each other, yet they all have a distinct style." Americans didn't have to go to Europe to be exposed to such variety. It's been on view in the U.S. for 150 years. Whenever the 11th man from any European town emigrated to the 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...
...pencil in the Spanish for the semis. Just hope they get there. "Spain is the anti-Germany," says Keller, who played in La Liga for Rayo Vallecano. "Spain will do everything possible to not get into the final." The problem, says Reyna, is that Spain would rather win a 5-3 goal fest than grind it out 1-0 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...