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Transcript: Susan Stamberg Says Soccer is a Grand Game for Life
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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NEAL CONAN, Host: The United States takes the stage again in the World
Cup Soccer Tournament. Today the opponent is Colombia, and the match
is in Pasadena, California. Television viewers switched on in considerable
numbers for the first U.S. match. The Americans played Switzerland
to a tie. Today's contest is expected to attract similar numbers,
along with the predictable criticism of the coverage - `Too boring'
- and the sport itself - `Too boring.' NPR's special correspondent
Susan Stamberg, a soccer fan for 20 years, is ready to take on the
critics. She says at least one generation of Americans finds the
game anything but boring.
SUSAN ...