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But because the players don't always speak English, Ferster found a solution to
"I've taken some Spanish and the guys taught me some essential words so I can vell at them in Spanish like everyone else," she added. "I taught me a few essential cursive words."
Fenster said that everyone had to try to understand each other to get along.
"The Latina are very temperamental," he said. "But they're really not that hard to get."
He said that some of the players misunderstood Mullins' criticism during the team meetings. Fenster said he was one of them.
"I THOUGHT HE WAS just cutting me down, I was ready to quit," he remembered. "But then I realized that it was all conspiracy, the criticism, that he was just trying to help me."
But despite all of the problems, Fenster said, the team is very close knit.
"we party a lot together and Bernie will invite a couple guys over for dinner once in
a while," he said. "On a soccer team everyone has to get along."
Another player, Randy McClain, said he didn't think any real problems existed, either with different styles of play or with social conflicts.
"THESE IS NO PROBLEM. Everyone knows the game," he said. "It's beneficial. You get a variety of styles from all over the world."
Mclain is from Liberia and is working on Ph.D. in chemical engineering. He has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship.
"I started playing when I was old enc agh
to kick," he said. "We'd start with tennis balls and move to something bigger."
For some of the players like Terry Wilcoen, St. Louis sophomore, the club is a learning experience. Wilcoen said he had noticed that foreign students learned the fundamentals of the game early, while Americans may not learn them at all.
"I feel that it's an advantage for me to be able to play with foreigners," he said. "The Americans are starting to ask questions. They realize that they can learn a lot by talking with players from other parts of the world."
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
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