A Single Green Moment
Diane Ackerman has a wonderful little piece in Conjunctions called "Give and Go." The piece weaves in and out of a Cosmos game with Ackerman watching Franz Beckenbauer from the stands and describing how it is her soccer mania began. Here's a choice cut:Without understanding exactly what I was watching, nonetheless I became enraptured by the elegance, sheer power, and changing patterns of the game. The field was a single green moment in August, on which beautiful men ran like ancient hunters, wild eyed, with quarry at their feet, hazing it, coasting, punching it toward the net.