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Learn about the region’s soccer tradition Aug. 29 in Utica · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Learn about the region's soccer tradition. August twenty ninth in Utica,
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  Speaker 1: Written by Tom Collins, This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Soccer historian
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Carlson will discuss Illinois Valley soccer teams and their
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  Speaker 1: connections to international soccer at one pm Saturday, August twenty
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  Speaker 1: ninth at the LaSalle County Historical Society Museum in Utica
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  Speaker 1: the Heritage Center. While the World Cup Games and other
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  Speaker 1: international tournaments can seem far removed from LaSalle County, the
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  Speaker 1: world's game actually has a long and distinguished history in
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  Speaker 1: the area. Teams such as the Spring Valley Celts, Coal
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  Speaker 1: City Maroons, and Dalzell American Nicoloyd played high quality soccer
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  Speaker 1: in the Illinois Valley and beyond from the eighteen eighties
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  Speaker 1: to World War II. Carlson will discuss the social climate
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  Speaker 1: in Illinois coal mining community during the soccer heyday, as
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  Speaker 1: well as the importance of girls soccer in keeping the
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  Speaker 1: game alive in the United States. Karlsson is an archivist
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  Speaker 1: and soccer history researcher, writer, and presenter based in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: He's lived in South Africa, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand,
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  Speaker 1: and Germany, and has attended five World Cups in soccer
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  Speaker 1: games in over thirty countries. Chuck has been an executive
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  Speaker 1: board member of the Society for American Soccer History since
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.