SOCCER: Teen keeps an old dream alive
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Her heroes gave her a gift four years ago, and Heather O&#39;Reilly repaid them handsomely Monday at Pankritio Stadium on the island of Crete.
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It was Yael Averbuch's decision, not her parents, to sacrifice the parties and the proms to make North Carolina her destination of destiny, where she has blossomed into a soccer standout.
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Benny Feilhaber has lived his soccer life on fast-forward for so long now that he has learned not to look ahead. "You always look back at the things that got you here," said one of the intriguing new faces on Uncle Sam's soccer team, "and how fast and crazy everything was."
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The current members of the American womenâs soccer team seem preoccupied with receiving the same attention their hallowed ancestors did eight years ago.
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With longtime captain Claudio Reyna sidelined with a thigh injury, Coach Bruce Arena feels comfortable tapping 22-year-old phenom Landon Donovan to captain the U.S. squad.
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A last-gasp goal that stole victory in regulation, a wide-open shot that bounced off the goal post. Then, the only teen-ager on the team came to the rescue.
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Weston's Rachel Biondolillo , a senior tricaptain on the Columbia University women's soccer team, will never forget her last touch of the ball in the final game of her college career.
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Deadly strikers Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Pauleta proved on Sunday that their eye for goal hasn't been dimmed by the passing years.
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Early in the first period, and about a dozen years into a dream that began when he was a Saskatchewan teenager, Jeremy Reich last night scored his first NHL goal.
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AS the fabled class of 1991 takes its leave of international soccer, everybody agrees it is time to turn the game over to the next generation - which may very well be Brazilian.
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Thousands of kids play soccer for fun, but yearslong involvement with the game can have more health benefits than routine physical activity.
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Lindsay Bove, a graduate of Holliston High School, has made an immediate and positive impact on the women's soccer team at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y.
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Casey Nogueira, a 17-year-old freshman, plays a crucial role on Sunday in North Carolina's 18th NCAA soccer championship in 25 years.
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Fifteen-year-old Freddy Adu will become the youngest player to appear in a championship game in the United States in any sport when he takes to the field for DC United in the Major League
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- When Julie Chu last played defense, she was playing on a boys' team. She was 12 years old.
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As a young man, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a gifted footballer, but not quite good enough to turn professional.
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I had only been living in Spain for a year or so when I was treated to the sight of the Barcelona Dream-Team-To-Be, in Real Sociedad's tightly-packed old ground Atocha, circa 1991.