When I get this site up and running, I will include a page with stories of sportsmanship at all levels, mostly in soccer, but in other sports as well. The first comes from the issue of Sports Illustrated that arrived today.
The short version is a college softball team is fighting for a play-off spot when a batter on the other team knocks one over the fence with two runners on - her first career home run. As she rounds the bases she realizes she missed first but when she turns to go back and tag the base, she falls and twists her knee. As she lies on the field in pain while the umpires and coaches confer, two players on the team in the field help her up and carry her around the bases, gently lowering her to allow her to tag each base along the way. Her first and last college home run stands.
About This Soccer Blog
Welcome to Coach P’s Soccer Blog! Writing whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it about the world’s most popular sport is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Now that I have retired from coaching, refereeing and being a club administrator, I have the time – when my day job as a lawyer permits.
About this blog
I plan to write about whatever comes to mind in the world of soccer – maybe a club game, or a news item from a European league, and a lot from Philadelphia’s new pro teams, the Union and Independence. A lot of content here will be my opinion – and you’ll know when it is – and a lot plain news reporting. I hope it will be objective and professionally written and that it will provoke thought or at least be interesting and entertaining to a soccer fan.
Eventually, when I figure things out, I’ll have more organization and specific pages by topic, pictures and various soccer links.
I won’t pretend to be comprehensive. I won’t have the time, the resources or the desire to fully cover any one league, team or age group.
And you will often find references to songs in my writing. It’s a habit I have, but I find I am not alone. I have found that Dan Shaugnessy, excellent sports columnist for the Boston Globe, has sprinkled references to songs in his work.
About this blog
I plan to write about whatever comes to mind in the world of soccer – maybe a club game, or a news item from a European league, and a lot from Philadelphia’s new pro teams, the Union and Independence. A lot of content here will be my opinion – and you’ll know when it is – and a lot plain news reporting. I hope it will be objective and professionally written and that it will provoke thought or at least be interesting and entertaining to a soccer fan.
Eventually, when I figure things out, I’ll have more organization and specific pages by topic, pictures and various soccer links.
I won’t pretend to be comprehensive. I won’t have the time, the resources or the desire to fully cover any one league, team or age group.
And you will often find references to songs in my writing. It’s a habit I have, but I find I am not alone. I have found that Dan Shaugnessy, excellent sports columnist for the Boston Globe, has sprinkled references to songs in his work.
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