All He Is Saying Is, Give Soccer a Chance

Grahame Jones misses the mark in his Jan. 23 column ridiculing the game of soccer as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. While he emphasized the hooliganism, injuries and deaths caused by spectators in certain professional and international games, he totally ignores the game where it is most played, on the schoolyards and in parks throughout the world.

Jones, like most media commentators, has chosen to focus only on the superficial and widely reported negatives without more deeply probing into why the game of soccer is so unique. Why has its universal appeal finally caught on in the United States?

Soccer knows no class, race or nation. It is “the beautiful game” that more often brings people together than separates them.

BRUCE C. DANIELS

Running Springs