| NYer Of The Week: Soccer Coach Helps The Homeless Score New Goals
The latest New Yorker of the Week is a former professional soccer player who is leveling the playing field by coaching for a team of homeless players. NY1's Rita Nissan filed the following report. Lawrence Cann coaches at the indoor soccer fields at Chelsea Piers. His players on the Street Soccer NYC team are quick, communicate well and score goals. But they are also homeless or formerly homeless. "For a lot of our folks who are traumatized and who have grown up with a lot of static and a lot of abuse, learning to manage [themselves] on a sports field is a great practical application to their lives," says Cann. Cann, a former professional soccer player, founded Street Soccer USA five years ago with the help of HELP USA, and now has teams in 16 cities across the country.
Weekly briefs
The Two Rivers Parks and Recreation is proud to sponsor a British Soccer Camp, the No. 1 soccer camp in the U.S. and Canada. Advance registration is required, a British Soccer jersey is free when you register online at www.challengersports.com at least 45 days before camp. Camp will take place at the Magee Play Field starting Aug. 3-7. There is a $10 late fee if the payment is received after July 24. Programs available are First kicks, ages 3-4; mini soccer, ages 4-5; and half day, ages 6-16. For more information contact the Two Rivers Parks & Recreation Department at (920) 793-5592. The Cascade Recreation Association is sponsoring their annual men's slow pitch softball tournament July 16-19. The tournament will include two divisions � upper and lower.
A Seemingly Very Nice Middle-Class Girl
She might pose as a moose-hunting soccer mom, but she was to the manor born. What fools we middle-class conservatives were, to accept this scion of soccer-coaching royalty as one of us, just because she hid her imperial velvet beneath a plaid shirt. Of the idea that Palin made the Republican Party look inclusive, Noonan snarls, “She makes the party look stupid, a party of the easy manipulated." Well, that's what they say at the high-toned Washington cocktail parties, where the elite liberals keep Peggy Noonan as a pet, so it must be true. The vast number of Palin admirers will be thrilled to know that Peggy Noonan thinks they're stupid. I'm sure that will make them rush right into the waiting arms of Noonan and her weak-tea wing of the GOP. Speaking of phony appeals to middle-class roots, here's what Noonan had to say about her Prince Charming, Barack Obama, back in 2008: He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections.
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