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A success story: Sequoia Gateway

By Mary Buckheit
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Marvin Lopez's business card tells you he is the lead recruiter of California teachers in the Tulare County Office of Education. That's all the small card lets on. It doesn't say anything about his role as an inspirational soccer coach, a caring mentor, an unrelenting visionary and a huge-hearted human being. His business card sells him short. I first met Lopez in 2007 when I made a trek to Visalia, Calif., to study his creation, the nonprofit Sequoia Gateway Soccer Program, as part of ESP ...

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