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Out of the ‘burbs, and on to the streets!

Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post nabs what ails us on the Elysian pitches of America — it’s the Elysian pitches, natch:

“The suspicion in soccer circles is that the American game is played too much in comfortable suburban leagues, and not enough in the streets. A great American star is out there somewhere, in a neighborhood blackening with soot, playing from one crack in the sidewalk to another, but he’s dribbling a basketball. The pick-up game is essential to mastery of any sport; it’s how kids come to create new moves and make them their own, how they learn to create and aspire and imagine. Instead we’re cultivating players in little leagues overmanaged by adults handing out juice boxes.”