Cleon: College-Soccer Draw

A sharp American college-soccer coach rears his special 'Bruins' team to great heights while reminding them of the modern value of democracy.

An homage to how sports re-presents our human fascination with open-ended dialogue about networking, peace, and general sportsmanlike diplomacy. Enjoy (and thanks so much for reading!), 

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Cleon is an Irish-Algerian Catholic scholar of capitalism studies at UCLA and also the part-time men's soccer coach, preparing his great team to capture another NCAA soccer title, having won in a great matchup already against Rutgers in 1990.

As UCLA dominates the tourney this year, Coach Cleon advises his ambitious stars, strikers, midfielders, and goalie to coordinate their potent offense to offer up special 4-4-2 zone style play to allow diagonal passes to side-parallel line running players to weave diagonal shots into the goal, creating a nice UCLA Bruins star-pattern of consistent offense, which will enable it to reach to higher highs in the tourney and down the tougher contenders like Duke and Rutgers.

Coach Cleon gives a nice speech to his Bruins team before the championship game during which he reminds his student-athletes the modern symbolic value of gametime-teamwork and what it represents to human civilization and why world-soccer is such a canonical sport outside the USA, producing 'godlike celebrities' (Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldo) who compete in great social venues representing a globalism-view of anti-terrorism peace and international cooperative activity. He tells them about the Summer Olympics terrorism-inquiry film Munich (Steven Spielberg) and why/how collegiate-soccer (USA) remains a vital 'American' expression of how games/sports reflect our species everlasting emotional investments in socialized dogma. This certainly creates much demo-cheers and teamwork-spirit and general gametime enthusiasm among the Bruins in the locker-room that day, before they win the title!

COACH CLEON: Hopefully, my triumphant Bruins team-players will go on to appreciate how sports reflects the global vision!

This is a time (post-9/11) of great globalism-rhetoric and international brooding about commerce networking and the threats of anti-civilization terrorism, creating a vacuum-need for great inter-religious talks about coops re-presented in our celebrated social sports events like the Olympics and college sports championships, especially in this era of media-broadcasting, when the 'Blue Dragon' of anti-capitalism narcissism might 'lure' us into the dark pit of endless disagreements.

COACH CLEON: The biggest motivation in promoting sports today is to see fans/kids celebrate the 'magic' of dollars.

Now, we all know the US women's national soccer team has won multiple World Cup titles, and while soccer remains a purely college laurel in the USA, outside junior/youth/local-travel leagues, it no doubt has become a media-broadcast era 'laurel' for great socialized dialogue about how games/sports symbolize peace. Hopefully, Coach Cleon will consider his divine soccer title one for the books...and one for the dates.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)