| Former soccer star teaching local camp
All kidding aside, the two former classmates have teamed up to offer a unique soccer experience in the form of the Braveheart Soccer Camp.
How is it different from other area soccer camps? Well for starters, Dalglish has plenty of soccer experience to draw from.
Dalglish followed in his father�s footsteps and played in the English Premier League for nine seasons. The forward signed with Liverpool when he was 19 years old and played with them for two years before signing with Newcastle.
Dalglish also played for the Scotland U21 team from 1999-2000, scoring three goals in five appearances.
In 2006, Dalglish moved to America to join the Houston Dynamo of the MLS. He played with the team for two seasons, helping the team win the MLS Cup both years.
Becoming a soccer fan in Haiti
In the car on the way to the hotel I was listening to the U.S. vs Haiti soccer game (I, er, didn't know what I was listening to until I asked. The play-by-play was in Creole.) When I got out of the car, the U.S. was up 1-0. During dinner, I heard Port-au-Prince light up with cheers a couple of times. What's that about? Haiti had scored two goals. I don't really follow soccer, but it was hard to hear those cheers and not care about the game. So I went online to ESPN and saw a live "gamecast" with 12 minutes to go in the match. The way it works, I couldn't actually see the game, just a generic soccer field diagram and a minute-by-minute update. Somewhere in the course of that 12 minutes I became a rabid soccer fan -- albeit one with no knowledge of the game.
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He would have loved the Sounders and reviled the Houston Dynamo and reveled in the mere idea of Major League Soccer in Seattle and the stadium sold out on a glorious July Saturday. At least, he would have 10 years ago when he was a kid from Spokane just out of the University of Washington and playing for the old A-League Sounders. As it was, he almost -- almost -- didn't mind that these Sounders beat his Dynamo 2-1 on a bicycle kick (!) and that he was Villain for a Day. "We were begging for an MLS franchise when I was here," he said. "I would have been one of the 32,000 today. It's a proud day for me to come back and see the team I started my professional career with excel at this level and compete so well in the first year. "I just wish they didn't compete as well as they did today." Yes, they compete.
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