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Article: SOCCER REMAINS UNIQUE.(SPORTS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2001
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Byline: Lonnie Wheeler
John Toebben's original vision had little to do with the sweet shop and the chili parlor and the 14-screen theater that now adjoin his soccer complex in Wilder, Ky.
The Northern Kentucky University soccer coach saw a grassroots expansion that would start at Town & Country's feature field and grow into something like they had in the old country, where soccer was a community affair. He saw the German system, which is the same as the French, the English, the Spanish or the South American.
We have the same system here, in a fashion, the difference being that we don't stick with it all the way from the rank amateur to the ...