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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
David Akers plays soccer

I said yesterday that I'd be featuring the U.S. soccer team's 1968 game against Israel in Philadelphia here on the blog today, but I'm going to push that to tomorrow for a reason that I think you'll appreciate.

I went down to the NovaCare Complex this morning for the U.S. team's practice, figuring I'd do some video interviews with Bob Bradley and a few players.

But when I got there, Eagles kicker David Akers was standing next to the field, and it soon became apparent that he was going to do some drills with the soccer players.

Akers got together with Santino Quaranta and Stuart Holden for a round of field goal kicking, then traded the oblong football for the round one.

The results were pretty funny, and pretty impressive too.

Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald @ 6:42 PM  Permalink | File Under: Soccer | 6 comments
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Posted 08:04 PM, 07/15/2009
Icemannj
That was fun; nice post; finding a little news on your own instead of just reacting to stuff. Thanks!
Posted 09:05 PM, 07/15/2009
Phandom
Sign those dudes to the practice squad...
Posted 09:07 PM, 07/15/2009
RichNC
Good job -- really interesting. Akers seems like a great guy.
Posted 11:15 PM, 07/15/2009
DreamShake
Akers soccer game is kinda nice.
Posted 12:41 AM, 07/16/2009
J H
Next, let's have Sav Rocca show these guys how to play Aussie rules
Posted 01:37 AM, 07/16/2009
Ski Fast
Holden has a good foot. He showed that against Haiti this past weekend.
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