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Article: Just for kicks - Even though Nomar Garciaparra is a superstar in the making on the baseball field, the Red Sox shorstop was good enough to consider a career in soccer.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- May 24, 1998
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The Red Sox are off to one of their finer early streaks, and nothing could be headier.
Big games every night. Early visions of, gasp, a pennant race.
But as Nomar Garciaparra knows, the real games haven't even started yet.
And the Red Sox shortstop isn't talking about August, either.
Not when you have the World Cup kicking off in France next month.
"Brazil's my team," he recently said after a week of talking up his favorite team, which is generally considered to be the cream of international soccer.
The sport is one of Garciaparra's great passions. He played it right up until his senior year at St. John-Bosco High ...