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Article: An ancient game puts on a brand new face; Once the exclusive domain of males, the world's most popular sport isnow played by just about everyone from Beijing to Biloxi.(Features)(A Thousand Years)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- November 19, 1999
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America's premier collegiate women's soccer coach, Anson Dorrance at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, was rhapsodizing the other day about the game: "It's an unbelievable challenge. Imagine playing a game with your feet."
And if you go directly to the core of the world's passionate love affair with soccer, it's obvious that almost everybody accepts the challenge, imagines such a thing, and embraces the game with fervor. The "Encyclopedia of World Sport" says that more men and women play and watch soccer worldwide than any other sport.
Conversely, the United States populace has viewed the challenge and tried to imagine such a thing, but ...