Now, it permeates our national identity and has become, almost unnoticed, a mainstream definition of who we are as a people. Later, it signified a positive avenue of parenting as research demonstrated that sports are good for girls, helping to maintain their health while teaching them some confidence. Last July, we recognized that girls are good for sports and athletic girls and women good for the country. Girls' soccer now stands for hope, even national redemption. At the grass-roots level, we have reached an unspoken understanding that we need women's soccer.
Soccer is life.
It is about lessons and character which last, not about winning which doesn't. St. Bonaventure and Nordhoff dueled on the grass. Brenda and I chatted after the game and later. Naturally, we spoke soccer. Brenda was unaware that I already knew some things about her.