By 吉本医学博士

1. Soccer colored my childhood.

“When you grow up with soccer (known outside of the United States as futbol), you get to understand the game better, and you appreciate the finesse of it much better than if you don‘t play the sport in your childhood.

“I grew up in the Czech Republic, so I didn‘t grow up with baseball, so I don‘t have that much appreciation for the finesse of baseball. I don‘t have an appreciation for American football at all. 然而,, it‘s clearly a very demanding game, and clearly there has to be some finesse in it, 但我看不出来. I don‘t see the chemistry in the teams. That‘s why it‘s not interesting to me.”

2. Soccer inspires camaraderie.

“我在一个团队里. We play every Sunday in a league at Sport Center 481 (in East Syracuse) for age 35 and older. It usually starts in early October, late September and goes into April. I‘ve been playing in that the last five or six years.

“And, every Thursday evening, I play with the residents and the attending physicians at Barry Park. Dr. (Gennady) Bratslavsky, the chairman of urology, is an excellent soccer player. He‘s got really good feet.”

“I consider myself a striker, (a forward who is expected to score goals.) But as I age I‘m getting slower and slower, so I will probably pull myself to the defensive line, 主要是.”

3. Soccer fits into an athletic life.

“我跑. 我游泳. 我举重. I ski downhill and cross country. I bike a lot, probably every other day or so.

“In the remote past, I used to be a very good tennis player. I almost turned professional when I was 16. The coach of (Czechoslovakian Wimbledon tennis star, Hana Mandilkova) came up to my parents and said ‘I‘m going to make him superstar, if you move to Prague and he devotes all his time to tennis and forgets about school and everything else.‘ And my parents were against it. That was the breaking point of my tennis career. I did want (to go) but I was a good boy and listened to my parents.”

他后悔吗?? “Looking back, I think I had exceptional discipline. As a parent, watching the kids around, it‘s very rare to see somebody who is committed. If you read about Bjorn Borg, one of the best players of all time, his story was very similar. But he, in contrast to myself, said ‘Screw you parents. 我还是会这么做. I am going to move at age 14 or 15 by myself, and I‘m going to just bet on this one card.‘ 也许 that‘s what you need, and what I didn‘t have, to reach the pinnacle of sports. 也许, 回想起来, I see myself as more talented than I was -- but, I was a champion of the Czech Republic when I was 12 and 13, so I did have something in my hands to substantiate the claim.

“I kept playing tennis for fun, but less and less and less. I wasn‘t used to losing, and I started losing with less training.”

4. Soccer from the sidelines is also enjoyable.

“It‘s fun to watch Brazil and Spain and Germany. I usually become a fan of the team that plays the nicest soccer. I do like the US and, of course, I was born in the Czech Republic, so I do follow their results.”

Does he play more or watch more soccer? “可能是一半一半吧. I do watch mostly my kids, because that‘s much more fun than anything else.” He has 16- and 10-year-old boys, both of whom have the speed and agility necessary to play midfield.

5. Soccer led me to my wife.

“I met her playing soccer (in the Czech Republic.) She was on the opposing team.” They both attended medical school at Charles University in Pilsen and completed residencies and fellowships at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at 推荐最近最火的赌博软件. Dr. 席尔瓦·本，医学博士 is an assistant professor of pathology at 推荐最近最火的赌博软件.