Half a world away at the Women’s World Cup in New Zealand, Crystal Dunn is still making an impact on the South Side High School girls’ soccer team and the Rockville Centre community. …
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By Michael Lewis
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7/31/23
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Participating in her second Women’s World Cup, Crystal Dunn is living by a simple philosophy: Embrace the moment. “The question that many of us who have played in the World Cup get …
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By Michael Lewis
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7/31/23
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Last week, a woman described as an “extreme athlete” emerged from a cave in Spain after 500 days in total isolation.
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4/20/23
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They flocked from all over Long Island to learn from one of soccer’s greatest — Carli Lloyd. But the 400 or so young athletes who gathered at the Mitchell Athletic Complex in Uniondale this past Saturday got an added bonus, with a chance to bend it like David Beckham — with David Beckham.
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3/16/23
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This year might be a turkey, but that didn’t prevent three Long Island Junior Soccer League clubs with a long history in the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association from hosting their alumni games over Thanksgiving weekend, including the Oceanside United Soccer Club.
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12/18/20
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After Bessie Lamonica lost her son, Rudy, a gifted soccer player, to bone cancer at age 17, she dedicated the rest of her life to ensuring that others could play the sport he enjoyed. She spent decades volunteering for the Oceanside United Soccer Club and the Long Island Junior Soccer League in his memory, and helped form the first girls’ soccer team in Oceanside.
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By Mike Smollins
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7/2/20
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Dozens of soccer goals scored in the late 1960s still resonate across Oceanside more than five decades later.
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2/6/20
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It’s been a month since Team USA claimed the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup with a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands. The squad’s dominance throughout the tournament reignited the national conversation on the gender pay gap.
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8/2/19
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On Long Island in the 1960s there were no Nassau County divisions for soccer players. Club teams? Forget about it. Oceanside, however, was different. “In the 60s we had our own version of club …
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By Peter Belfiore
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10/3/18
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The New York Islanders have been awarded the right to develop Belmont Park, according to people close to the negotiations. A formal announcement will take place at a news conference on Wednesday, to be held at the Belmont racetrack. Gov. Mario Cuomo is slated to attend. The Islanders were selected in a two-way contest with the New York City Football Club, a soccer franchise owned by Manchester City Football Club and the New York Yankees.
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By Timothy Denton
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12/19/17
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