Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vujovic was upset by the "jock image" attached to all athletes. "A lot of soccer players at Harvard wanted to give up soccer this year," he said at the time. "People tend to overlook that you have other talents and interests. [Foreign players] are proud--something like this insults them. In Europe sport is considered an art. Here people just look at you as a soccer player...
...general, foreign universities simply don't try to mix academics and athletics. That attitude prevails even on the secondary level. Where sports seasons tend to be much shorter than at American high schools. And colleges--even schools famous for their students devotion to crew--are stingy when it comes to funding other sports...
...Okoye. "You have to join a club They're pretty well organized, along the lines of a college track team here." Clubs often here coaches, but their competition with colleges or other clubs is basically informal Even soccer clubs in South America, where the sport is an international obsession, tend to be casual affairs, according to senior forward Mauro Keller-Sarmiento, and Argentinian. And in England, says might meet on a Saturday and play a game, and then the next Wednesday at the pub for another match...
...They tend to have steaks where they lose confidence in their ball-handling ability," Palm said of his charges, explaining that passing, is a simple technique which "relies a lot on confidence and the flow of the game...
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