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...Europe and Latin America, your fate as a soccer fan is predetermined. Your father's team tends to become your team, end of story. We Americans are blissfully liberated from the weight of such history. When we become passionate about international football, we have the luxury of choosing our allegiances, of falling in love with whichever club suits us best. This freedom means that you will never tether yourself to an eternally hopeless bottom-dwelling club - unless that's your masochistic bent. You can pick a club that squares with your identity - be it gritty and hardworking, or champagne flash...
Airness is imbued with the irresistible cool derived from celebrities the French love most: soccer stars. But how could he swing that when all the pros worth recruiting were already under contract to Nike, Adidas and Puma? "I came up with the concept of the extra sports contract"--getting players to wear Airness in their private life, once their on-field obligations were over." French-African roots were key to signing stars like Didier Drogba, an Ivorian who plays for the top English team, Chelsea. Those ties also allowed Koné to go to the next level, signing Airness...
Harvard students are nervous wrecks. In order to get here, we’ve had to keep careful tabs on our accomplishments, always making sure that our soccer trophies were a little bit bigger, our papers a little bit longer, and of course, our GPAs a little bit higher than our competition’s. No wonder we’re kind of edgy...
...fair, if they were at least resolute about their harmless acts of charity, I found myself altogether flummoxed about how I might make a difference. My volunteerism was limited to kicking around a few soccer balls with children at a Catholic orphanage once...
...director of recreational sports, called it “the culmination of a lot of work and a lot of effort on the part of a lot of people.” In addition to the recreational department and Eliot House’s involvement, the Varsity soccer team also showed support for Gilligan, who was a member of the junior varsity team—providing volunteers for the morning’s arrangements. “We knew that we wanted to have a road race this year,” said Olkkola. After Gilligan’s death...