Tag: soccer
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What One Player-Coach Conversation Taught Me about Transformations, the Uses (and Limits) of Frustration, and When to Let Go of (Some) Authority.
I called the player over after practice had ended. “Do we have a problem?” I asked him. “Do you want brutal honesty?” I said yes, I did. He looked at the empty field, the sky, the fenced horse pasture beyond. Then he started talking.
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The Now
I was standing on a high school soccer field the other night. A storm front had just rolled past; the air had cooled in its wake. But we never saw a drop of rain. The lights over the field began to glow just as the sky opened to a sunset of oranges, pale blues, and…
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Homesick
I did time in Norwich. East Anglia. England. My room had a closet for clothes and another closet for the bathroom. The city was ten minutes away from campus by bus, twenty if I ran it. And I did run, most days. I was there taking classes, and after my modernist fiction seminar, my interwar…
Patrick Faller 