“Soccer and basketball are the only mainstream sports that truly plug into the modern-pulse of a dot-com society. Soccer is perfectly suited for a country of the hamster-treadmill pace, the remote-control zap and the national attention deficit–two 45-minute halves, the clock never stops, no commercial interruptions, the final whistle blows in less than two hours. It is a fluid game of systemized chaos that, no matter how tightly scripted by coaches, cannot be regulated any more than information can be truly controlled on the Internet.”
The quote is from Jere Longman, who is a best-selling author and sports writer that began with The New York Times in 1993. Born in Coronado, California in 1954, Longman authored “The Girls of Summer,” a book about the United States Women’s National Soccer Team that won the 1999 Women’s World Cup.