European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse By Richard a Yuan writer soccer May be running rampant in Only the where still is King my such sparsely populated states Idaho South Carolina there i few adults qualified to teach the since there avg few adults who have been exposed to have resist the most Surlong i inner Days i tend play Tri Edy 1 Retiere Are two Basic reasons this the inner v youth looks to High paying professional sports such the Sketwall and football for upward mobility nut of the soccer int televised nationally in a regular tis and Many residents see the world Vond their neighbourhoods Only through u is perhaps strange that the cities where the its most Seattle inn Lias Are what Kurt Lamm Calls absolutely am ii a cities such As Chicago and where be ethnic populations were supposed to have Guaran i Large have not drawn Wel where the earn is made up almost entirely of averages Only fans a far under the ice average the Chicago is doing aver to dont seem to be Able to pull the ethnic groups to said George a team vice Jim the general said that another Eblem was the which is in the were going to have to move to a suburban Kulker our fans come from the and they it want to drive to the the Cosmos have been the Success Story if the their attendance helped by an advertising budget of More than so far this have Given the credibility nation wide despite weak franchises Inch As Connecticut and which regularly attract fewer than promoting their Star such As Franz a Zenbauer and Giorgio the Cosmos have All i certified the popularity of a sport that might have be unnoticed on the professional level had the huge wet been drawn instead to Seattle or you have to do it in new said new it u us you have to sell the new York Media and Tison you can Only do that with and t Cosmos gave us Lite Woosnam heartily predicts that in As few As five but in no More than soccer will become the big it pro sport in bigger than football but i soccer still has a Long Road to the Cosmos Are Only two years removed from the 4stjdded Field on Randalls Only last year Ore were h persons watching the sudden death shoot thai concluded the Connecticu Tsan Antonio game or a on Day postponement due to heavy rain and Only one Day before the Cosmos Drew to giants an american soccer league game Between two Jiff la franchises had drawn the average crowd of u nothing and the aver e crowd of is embarrassing to a sport with als so the Point of Hal the Coronation of pro lesion ii toc curb live Toye tells the Slaty of he time in 1971 when he in ruled the first Cosmos fan club meeting at the Sevelt he showed up with two members of his Iff and eagerly swatted the arrival of the fan two wed there were Only two How we Toye and we wont 1977 you Icari just see bout to 1 still overseas longer ions put Blu fever to infect fans ii unik lot women would show up they started the ranks of a Pat Burma still baseball and r my parents raised me on in used to the husband Karl a 4 with 3tth a Post exp lamed he was a soccer fan Long before he my Mother was German and my father was Canad i was rails de with soccer and they Are my two favorite but Burn Ian is an almost none of the 34 persons interviewed la snack bar had watched rope an soccer even in Only three had watched a North american soccer league na5l the majority of the persons if they had Ever played Hod played Only in Grade school gym t May be t in sports i Al heretic said Iliad trouble file web even repro soccer by a forces to euro pics the Turge of soccer in the Many of the players Are experienced College Many Are members of minor titles cubans people from the West he Sau hed heard reports of kids at Kellcy Barracks in Stuttgart saving they wanted to play soccer instead of and soccer has a valuable place in youth sports Only four had played on some sort of a soccer team while in the i like american football better its just the Way 1 was brought said Joseph 32nd from dont get anything watching people run backhand fort across a Field kicking a Ball theres a lot of Contact but no real Ronald 709th said till never beat inc Llams Orthe till never replace football is so Beautiful a u has so Many parts and positions and it takes a real skill to play anyone of even spec 4 Daniel Ontso the 709th who played wan army soccer times in eth Ibison against German said he preferred football is a lot better because it has conto at All sports Are but soccer int that in not really interested in i like football said 4 Darryl a Cook with the 283rd Field he said if he attended a soccer match it would Proba Bly be because other people were interested sort of Fol lowing having someone to Root As Well As was important to its easy to get to like soccer in an environment where everyone else ekes sgt Brian Phillips if nobody is interested its just not conducive to Phillips said team soccer was just coming to his University in Oregon when he left 4 Walter Garris what they need to do is form a soccer team and bring it around to other that How interest of co 440th signal played soccer a Little for fun As a in the streets Back in s Jim also of the 440th soccer is All right once you understand the from said some German friends of his explained the game to and now there Are a couple of teams in of Ungstad i Root grass was one of the few who defended it lakes a hell of a lot More skill than along with i cant run 49 minutes like id be pooped after the first 10 Cindy 440th was another wha preferred 1 think soccer is a lot More interesting than Emmet the new Usa eur dependent youth association Day said that re quest for soccer in Heidelberg Nave surpassed requests for i see soccer in the youth program because sports Are so darn Alloway was like it because the game involves both team plays and onion one so of that needed is two kids and a and you have a you can play almost Rod Fer said be thought u was strange that youth programs la the should have Beta into soccer for so much longer than the Usa eur especially Sloce soc Cris indigenous to been on a Power trip with the big 3 basketball Over Rodifer we need to offer every kind of Opportunity fur youngsters to in crease their a comprehensive program of am hand and soccer is also a Money saving Accord in to von can use essentially the same uniforms for All while in football and baseball its constantly Neces sary to upgrade the we Hope to have a u5aheur soccer championship As soon As an informal Survey of More than is children conducted by Ted Par Montt Day it rated a negative attitude toward soccer in his he a div there not too Deyoung frankly they think its a football they prefer body Contact Over running around and of Kink a Ball but talks with to children outside the Dar Rostett Pya revealed some Strong pro soccer although favouring traditional american sports Michael from Newark dad says soccer is Tor the germans and not Lor american but i still play a Peter sch hell from was Adamant in Bis support of we used to play soccer Back Home and i was Getling pretty kids Here would rather play baseball or foot but soccer is More it feels As if you have really exercised after running All Day after the on the Pober Roderick called soccer a tired game that aint no its to easy to use your hands and Gei Willie soccer is but i like baseball and lucked a twelve Earold Doug from Kansas sure we play a lot of soccer but i would still rather play baseball and hit a grand i like Joe Namath and i dont know any famous soccer said Bobble Larohn from Sacra the stars and stripes Page is
