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...been eligible to play on the team and had dropped out. Others had found the first practice too hard, too uncomfortably hot in the sun, and stayed home. Others didn't like the regimental form of practice and only wanted to play cascarita [free-for-all street soccer]. Many couldn't come because they worked after school...
Migrants from Mexico and Latin America are transforming the American south. In his new book A Home on the Field, TIME reporter Paul Cuadros chronicles one town's decision to start up a soccer team in its increasingly Hispanic public school - and how that team struggled not only to win acceptance among the Anglo establishment but also on a playing field dominated by white soccer organizations who looked at them as interlopers. The story is a deeply personal one. Cuadros himself helped to found and coached the team, taking a bunch of young street footballers from Jordan-Matthewes High School...
...left Ricardo with the boys, went to my car, and brought back two large boxes. I dumped them down in the middle of the boys. It was time. The boys needed to play in uniforms and I had ordered some at a discount with the Chatham Soccer League, of which I was a board member. A local businessman paid for them...
...towering over me in his white jersey, and softly said, "Gracias, Cuadros ." He wrapped his big arms around me. Oso had the maturity to see what an important moment this was at the school. Last year he was playing for Chatham Central because they had started a soccer program the year before and he wanted to play. He had transferred specifically to play on their team but had always wanted to play for JM. When he heard we were going to have a team, he rescinded his transfer and came back to be a Jet. He wore the jersey...
Corrupt politicians are as much a part of Brazilian life as exquisitely skilled soccer stars, carnival queens and scantily clad beach babes. One post-war politician in Sao Paulo state won three terms as mayor and governor with the dubious endorsement that "he steals, but he gets things done." Former president Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached in 1992 over a corruption scandal, and in 2001 it was revealed that fraudsters had bled an astonishing $2 billion from two government agencies established to help the country's poor...