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| | Soccer -- The Beautiful Game |
 | | Pele, soccers Muhammad Ali, called soccer the beautiful game. The ball at his own feet, it certainly was and the beauty that the Brazilian genius was saluting is the games magical blend of simplicity and complexity. |
 | | Saturday afternoons men from the pits, steel mills and shipyards (soccer is an urban game) could express the self-respect their brutal toil had planted in them.The men without work could seek to claim the self-respect their skill and bravery might now earn. |
 | | When the Dodgers next buy a Japanese pitcher, it may be soccer, free from Vegas and Wall Street and Madison Avenue hype, that reminds the hometown kid that a game, any game, is finally beautiful not as a hyped product but because of the challenges its inherent logic and technical demands ask. |
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