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The World's Game (According to Us)

By Austin Kelley

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Aspiring soccer coaches can stop studying motivational techniques and polishing up their team talks. They don't need to send the squad to boot camp with Norwegian Special Forces and they certainly don't need to threaten suicide. Motivating players is easy. Just send them a few text messages. At least that's what David Beckham seems to have done to push Landon Donovan, two-time Bundesliga dropout, to succeed. Donovan has four goals in five exhibition matches since he joined Bayern Munich on l ...

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