| Soccer fans love the game of soccer because it is | | | | forward to playing the next game of soccer. It is rather |
| filled with pulsating action that comes from teams that | | | | strange that the press would canonize a foreign |
| represent people from all parts of the world. Soccer | | | | soccer player for not being able to play in Los Angeles |
| allows people of all cultures to integrate onto a playing | | | | when he was injured in a soccer game. Although the |
| surface and exhibit their talent in a very aggressive | | | | player was where he was supposed to be, and doing |
| game that is watched by millions of people each | | | | what he was hired to do, some critics feel that he was |
| weekend. When one of those players is missing | | | | taking advantage of the situation somehow and was |
| though, a different type of hell breaks loose. Soccer is | | | | not keeping up his end of the bargain. Perhaps the |
| a sport that is very respected by fans because they | | | | injury occurred on a soccer field in England, or one in |
| have made it their business to know all about the | | | | the United States. Soccer players know the risk when |
| people involved with the game. The fans understand | | | | they enter the field, and yet, many of them still do and |
| the time and commitment that some soccer players | | | | have the courage to continue playing long past when |
| put into a game that they love doing every day of the | | | | they should leave the field for medical reasons. |
| week. There are certain soccer players that still must | | | | Permanent injuries can occur when any soccer player |
| prove their abilities in a foreign land even after they | | | | puts the game above self, but the ridicule provided by |
| have become champions in their homeland. These | | | | the press and teammates might give a foreign player |
| players will be under constant scrutiny by the public as | | | | that plays for America no other choice. A player with |
| they wait for the player to prove their abilities and live | | | | this much power and charisma on and off the soccer |
| up to the hype generated by the news. These | | | | field deserves to be watched but not monitored. Some |
| self-made soccer avatars have been exposed by the | | | | events of life deserve to be solemnly attended to with |
| news media as the best in their craft and have been | | | | dignity and with a guarantee of privacy. There are |
| criticized for being highly paid for their professional | | | | certain times when time limits should be lifted and |
| services. Some professional soccer players have used | | | | attention to family matters be given the widest |
| their brain instead of their athletic talents and excelled | | | | considerations. Otherwise, the watching might turn to |
| in the news because they have a very talented mate | | | | monitoring so soccer teams can try and figure out if |
| who is just as interesting in the public eye. When this | | | | devotion to self finally overrides the grinding urge to |
| type of scrutiny is diverted for just a short time, it gives | | | | return ever again to the playing field where a foreigner |
| the soccer playing champ a chance to rest and look | | | | is often criticized. |