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History | Remembering New Jersey’s immigrant soccer past
Newark, New Jersey, Mar 30 | At the start of its 13th season, MLS lacks a nuanced appreciation for history. But the sense of American soccer as a game among immigrant enclaves has been preserved, with regional focus, at Sport Clube Português and within a northeastern amateur league featuring divisions along ethnic lines (see New York Times coverage).
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Am I so round with you as you with me, / that like a football you do spurn me thus? / You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither. / If I last in this service you must case me in leather. (William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, 1592)
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