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How power soccer is changing kids’ lives | Soccer For All Week

Extratime

Andrew Wiebe

Usnationalteam, Fifa, News, Sports News, Football, Concacaf, Sports, Mls, Majorleaguesoccer, Usmnt, Soccer, Worldcup

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Nick Firchau is back in the ETR fold to tell a story about soccer that's much bigger than the game itself. Power soccer changes kids' lives, and this special podcast is part of Soccer For All week at MLS!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, from New York, New York, you are listening to Extra Time driven by Continental Tire.

0:08.6

From Kansas City, I am Andrew Weebie with a very special podcast as part of MLS's Soccer

0:13.0

for all week.

0:14.5

In this league and on this podcast, everyone is welcome, regardless of race, color, religion,

0:20.1

national origin, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.

0:26.3

You can find out more about Soccer for all at MLS Soccer.com and by following MLS works

0:30.5

on Twitter and Instagram to see what clubs are doing in their own communities.

0:35.0

On this podcast, Nick Fershaw is always welcome.

0:38.7

Greetings, greetings and welcome, you might say.

0:41.6

You're about to listen to a story Nick reported and produced back in December 2019 before

0:46.5

the pandemic upended our lives.

0:48.9

It's about power soccer and the impact the game has on the athletes who play it.

0:53.2

Enjoy.

0:55.2

Come on.

1:00.6

It's a cold December evening in Colorado and Brian Broiles is in full on tinkering.

1:05.9

You could look, it may be one or two, but you get the right size of me.

1:09.6

We're here.

1:10.6

Though he's an information technology executive during the day.

1:13.4

On this night, he's kneeling down on the gymnasium floor at Denver South High School,

1:18.9

frantically working with a set of wrenches and screwdrivers.

1:22.0

I'll bring you toolbox so everybody waits for that to get here and we go to town.

1:27.8

Brian is a stocky man in his fifties with closely cropped gray hair.

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