Word: soccers
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...headed for Moscow. The result, Imperium, is a perceptive travelogue-memoir of living under communism and watching it collapse. Another Day of Life is a harrowing account of the 1970s Angolan civil war; The Shadow of the Sun contains the best of the author's Africa reporting; and The Soccer War recounts, among other idiocies, the lethal, football-inflamed 1969 spat between Honduras and El Salvador...
Akpan, who has been playing soccer since he was three years old, has used those years of experience to reach a very high skill level. Not only does he seem to keep the ball glued to his foot on the dribble and to possess an innate talent for finishing plays, but he is also able to beat defenders with his speed, a somewhat unusual quality for a player of his size...
...Call my approach, executed by 12-year-old me, the Don Mattingly Effect: If some kid is going to go play for the Yankees, why can’t I attend Harvard? And be pre-med, and play for both the basketball and soccer teams, all of which I also absurdly prophesied...
...young team in any sport, there are two paths to success—one easy and one hard. Unfortunately for the freshman-laden Harvard women’s soccer team, coach Erica Walsh chose the latter. In playing four of its first seven matches against ranked opponents, including then-No. 1 Santa Clara, the squad was challenged early and often. And, in turn, it did not win a single game, going 0-6-1 during a torturous start to the season. Although this made the team stronger, especially for next year’s push under new coach Ray Leone...
...first time in 10 years, the Harvard men’s soccer team took home the Ivy League championship outright and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the 12th time in program history...