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...football hopes stay alive, expressing one’s pride of place is intensely satisfying, and contributes to building valuable community cohesion.Curiously, in each case, some kind of catalyst is needed to make individuals embrace their long-lost identities. As superficial as cheering on one’s national soccer team, or drunkenly taunting one’s collegiate rival may be, these experiences release the repressed identities that Germans and Harvardians alike traditionally conceal.After every Harvard-Yale game, we put away our Harvard hoodies and baseball caps and return to our rivals’ insignia-wear. Buzz, excitement...
...Goals tallied by soccer legend Ronaldo in Brazil's 4-1 win over Japan last week, which brought his career World Cup Finals total to 14 and tied him with Germany's Gerd Mueller as top scorer in Cup history...
...Once again, the U.S. team was supported by a boisterous group of U.S fans, who had gathered in the old city of Nuremberg before the match to enjoy what has been uncharacteristically warm weather. Then, around 2 p.m., Sam's Army, the U.S. soccer team's supporters, paraded down the Konigstrasse, the main street in this ancient town, flags waving and drums drumming. What a surreal site that was, given that Hitler's National Socialists had used the very same streets, for some their propaganda rallies. The history was obviously lost on the Americans, but needless to say the trooping...
...came on an OG - an own goal - grazie Italy. Although the U.S. was able to put Italy's vaunted defense under pressure, they were unable to finish. "Once we get into their third of the field, the crosses have to be better," says Reyna, looking ahead to Ghana. In soccer this is known as the final ball, and it hasn't been there. The U.S. will also need to get more players on the end of those crosses - "more numbers in the box," says Reyna. Some better shooting would hurt either...
...Italy, an astounding crowd of Americans outshouted the usually fervent Italian tifosi. It was something of a revelation about support for the game in the U.S. A large crowd of Americans are expected in Nuremberg, a city that is rife with U.S. history of a vastly different sort. U.S. Soccer has sold more than 20,000 tickets to this tournament, while U.S. fans bought another 5,000 directly from FIFA, soccer's ruling body. That's more than for all the other non-U.S. World Cups combined. The U.S. fans, organized by a group called Sam's Army, have...