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Soccer is a popular sport for children and adults alike:

Soccer is a popular sport for children and adults alike:

*As Stephen H. Webb wrote at First Things last year, to contemporary American parents, "Baseball is too intimidating, football too brutal, and basketball takes too much time to develop the required skills ... Soccer is the perfect antidote to television and video games. It forces kids to run and run, and everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game."<ref name=media-goal />

*As Stephen H. Webb wrote at First Things last year, to contemporary American parents, "Baseball is too intimidating, football too violent, and basketball takes too much time to develop the required skills ... Soccer is the perfect antidote to television and video games. It forces kids to run and run, and everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game."<ref name=media-goal />

 

==Origins==

==Origins==