The San Diego Celtics (green and black) celebrated with the Soccer Grannies (yellow and green) after a friendly soccer tournament in Lancaster yesterday. For the Grannies, the trip was an adventure.
(Mark Wilson for The Boston Globe)
Kicking up their heels
Soccer Grannies find their way from South Africa for tournament, fun
The San Diego Celtics (green and black) celebrated with the Soccer Grannies (yellow and green) after a friendly soccer tournament in Lancaster yesterday. For the Grannies, the trip was an adventure.
(Mark Wilson for The Boston Globe)
Long before Reinata Walaza did the chicken waddle windup and kicked the ball that scored her South African team’s first goal at a soccer tournament here yesterday, she and her teammates, ages 47 to 84, had to overcome maladies such as arthritis and cancer, make multiple hourslong trips from their rural villages to obtain passports in Johannesburg, and ... (Full article: 880 words)
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