Soccer In the Weeds: Bad Hair, Jews, and Chasing the Beautiful Game

It was 1973 and while the world outside of Fairfield County, Connecticut, seemed determined to fall apart, young Daniel Lilie had bigger worries: high school. Academically ill-prepared by the parochial schools he'd previously attended, young Daniel's adolescence was bedeviled by girls ("they could have put firecrackers under my fingernails as long as they flirted with me "), bad grades ("My mother took my first semester grades like a personal indictment of her parenting skills"), and possib...