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It’s How You Play the Game: The Fate of Western Civilization and Grade-School Soccer
PajamsMedia ^ | 11/7/2010 | Barry Rubin

Posted on 11/07/2010 5:48:53 AM PST by HangnJudge

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BTW - MontaniSemperLiberi
our family is 8 generations West Virginia
Pre and Post Civil War / War Between the States

Currently in Tennesse
The Volunteer State

21 posted on 11/07/2010 9:17:11 AM PST by HangnJudge
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Played soccer under the same rec league requirements. Not sure why a team cannot be competitive when taking everybody. Yes, you need a coach that can evaluate talent and assign people to the correct positions, but that’s part of the job of the coach.

In three years we lost 4 times, once in the championships, and won twice in a row.


22 posted on 11/07/2010 10:04:57 AM PST by BenKenobi
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It's too easy to ruin a sport by introducing all sorts of absurd machinations in order to avoid a tie outcome.

I am not going to argue with you there. The current NFL rules are a good example, IMO. Notice that I said "routinely", though. A tie outcome, in and of itself, is not a bad thing.

23 posted on 11/07/2010 12:28:10 PM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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So many conservatives praising the benefits of the official sport of our future one world government.

That says it all.

24 posted on 11/09/2010 7:05:48 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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