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Maria Burns Ortiz opens her article on Brad Friedel's soccer academy in suburban Cleveland like this:

"Brad Friedel's Premier Soccer Academy is the kind of program that makes a soccer parent do a double take. The kind of program that is followed up quickly with a 'What's the catch?' The kind of program that Americans have a hard time comprehending, even though clubs like his are relatively commonplace in other parts of the world.