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    Taylor returns home

    By Marc Connolly
    ESPN Soccernet.com

    Thursday, December 16, 2004

    Matt Taylor was making yet another of many appearances to promote Major League Soccer, and he was getting booed. Usually this type of unpaid work that soccer players do is greeted with cheers. Especially when it takes place in a classroom in front of wide-eyed kids who are either in awe that a professional athlete is in their presence, or at least appreciative that it's a break from fractions or Edgar Allan Poe. But not on this summer day in an East L.A. middle school. Once Taylor was introdu ...

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