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Playing indoors pays off outdoors

By Sheldon Shealer
ESPNRISE.com

Friday, June 19, 2009

Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part series on soccer in Alaska. Today, the focus is on how one building in Anchorage has changed the nature of soccer in Alaska and helped produce a pair of U.S. youth national pool players from a state that never before had national-caliber talent. Youth soccer players in Alaska have gone indoors to get better outdoors. Players and coaches agree: The greatest step forward for soccer in the state was the creation of the Alaska Dome in Anchorage in 20 ...

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