导出博客文章Fourteen-man Munster honoured their late captain and head coach Anthony Foley
with a barnstorming 38-17 bonus-point Champions Cup win over Glasgow at Thomond
Park.Despite Keith Earls red card for a tip tackle midway through a frenzied
first half, Munster were 24-3 clear by the interval after tries from European
debutants Tyler Bleyendaal and Jaco Taute along with a fortuitous effort from
Simon Zebo.Munsters dominance up front yielded a penalty try, early in the
second period, and although Pat MacArthur and Mark Bennett both touched down in
the final quarter, a closing seven-pointer from Rory Scannell was a fitting end
to a highly emotional day in Limerick.A sell-out 26,500 crowd watched Munster
open their European campaign in tearful circumstances, just a day after Foley
was laid to rest in his home town of Killaloe, County Clare.The 42-year-olds
sudden death at the team hotel in Paris last Sunday forced the postponement of
Munsters round-one clash with Racing 92, and the subsequent days saw the rugby
community, at home and abroad, unite in support of the Irish province and most
importantly, Foleys wife Olive and their children Tony and Dan.The outpouring of
grief continued at Thomond, where special tributes were paid before the
lunchtime kick-off, including renditions of There is an Isle and Stand Up and
Fight - the rousing songs of Foleys beloved Shannon RFC and Munster - an
impeccably observed minutes silence and the West Stand supporters holding up
cards to poignantly display his nickname Axel and shirt number, 8.Munster
retired Foleys number eight jersey for the game and had his nickname proudly
displayed below their crests. It was fly-half and man of the match Bleyendaal
who struck the first blow, breaking onto Earls offload, weaving through from
outside the 22 and using his momentum to touch down wide on the left with just
three minutes gone.Bleyendaal converted and also added the extras to Tautes
13th-minute score in the same corner, combining with Scannell to send the South
African over after an initial turnover from CJ Stander and strong carries from
the equally fired-up Dave Kilcoyne and Tommy ODonnell.The complexion of this
round-two fixture changed with Earls 18th-minute dismissal, the winger guilty of
being over-zealous in lifting Fraser Browns leg in the tackle and dumping him on
his shoulders. French referee Jerome Garces, having consulted with TMO Arnaud
Blondel, reached for his red card.However, Finn Russell was unable to add his
earlier penalty success and Bleyendaal rewarded a monster Munster scrum at the
other end for 17-3. The points kept coming for the hosts, centre Scannells
defence-splitting break leading to Zebo wriggling over after Stuart Hogg was
adjudged not to have completed a tackle on his opposite number.Bleyendaal swept
over another superb conversion from out wide, with the energy and defensive
solidity of the home pack ensuring Glasgow failed to respond before
half-time.The Warriors had looked a shadow of the side that thumped Leicester
42-13 last week, but their replacement prop Alex Allan did well to get his body
in the way and prevent a Conor Murray try on the restart.Allan and fellow
replacement Sila Puafisi could do little, though, as the Warriors leaked three
successive scrum penalties in scoring range and Garces duly awarded Munster a
46th-minute penalty try and their bonus point.An over-cooked kick from Russell
and further control from the Munster forwards saw the hosts keep an iron grip on
proceedings. Entering the final quarter, Glasgow finally created a try-scoring
chance for possession-starved winger Rory Hughes but he was bundled into touch
by Zebo and Darren Sweetnam.The visitors did manage to cross the whitewash with
a quarter of an hour remaining, a well-set lineout maul allowing replacement
hooker MacArthur to crash over and full-back Hogg converted.As expected,
tiredness crept in for Munster. Cramp left them down to 13 men at one stage and
Glasgow quickly turned defence into attack, replacement Bennett straightening up
to go over on the left after Sweetnams initial try-saving tackle.However, with
six minutes to go, Murray teed up Scannell on the blindside to go over for
Munsters fifth try in the left corner. Replacement Ian Keatley successfully
converted and the home support soon rose to sing The Fields of Athenry in
acknowledgement of a pulsating collective performance from the players - one
which had Foleys imprint all over it.
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the 2013 MLS re-entry draft. In contrast to older sister Christen, who recalled
recently that she spent her first soccer season picking flowers instead of
kicking the ball, Channing Press couldnt wait to get on the field.Really, she
couldnt wait.Her parents tell her that she was so excited to finally play in her
first real soccer game at about 4 years old that she took off at full sprint
well before any whistle ever blew. In her mind, perhaps, she had bided her time
as a spectator long enough. By three years the youngest of sisters, Tyler oldest
and Christen in the middle, Channing sought to follow in their footsteps.It is
hardly new, as these stories go, to learn she eventually needed to find her own
path separate from their accomplishments.Who followed her when she took that
fork is something of a plot twist.In confronting her own depression, finding
peace of mind through the practice and study of Vedic meditation, Channing
discovered a world awaiting her that offered pleasures and passions beyond
soccer.And while meditation helped Channing reach a place where she was at peace
with walking away from soccer, it might well have kept Christen from doing the
same.I feel like in the most important part of my life, which is my soccer,
football, my career, she has really protected me, said Christen, the United
States forward who has chased a soccer ball across the globe, including a World
Cup title a year ago and now in her first Olympics. And she has really taught me
how to build an army to protect myself. And I feel like I could withstand
anything.Channing withstood a lot in her own right. She loved the game as much
as any of the sisters, the three of them daughters of a dad who imbued in them
the competitiveness he carried as a former college football player. While they
chased achievement in everything -- the three ended up going to Harvard (Tyler),
Stanford (Christen) and Villanova (Channing) -- soccer stood apart. Yet as
Channing neared her teenage years and soccer grew ever more serious, the game
started to take a toll. She threw up before almost any competition, anxiety
swelling inside her. She couldnt control it. By the time she played for
Villanova in college, anxiety morphed into full-on panic attacks.She spiraled
into a year-long depression. She felt trapped, unable to live up to expectations
-- her own and those of all the people who told her how good she was from an
early age -- when it came to this central pillar of her life that the sport had
become. Yet its place as a central pillar made it that much more difficult to
deconstruct, lest everything come tumbling down around it.She couldnt talk about
it, not with her friends and not with her siblings.A lot of people, they dont
know how to respond, Channing, now 24, said. The culture is that you should be
strong. You need to be tough. You need to be able to thrive under pressure.
Pressure is what makes us. You need to have that. And so people just want you to
be able to push through it all, and it doesnt create an environment where you
can openly discuss the things you are feeling.It was amid that nadir while home
in California she came across a Vedic meditation class. There is a spiritual
component, if not necessarily a religious one, to what she now understands about
the practice as an instructor. But that wasnt what she sought initially. What
appealed to her was, in essence, a chance to be proactive. Channing found
convincing the research supporting the physiological benefits of meditation,
that it could harness the fight-or-flight instinct that never switched off
inside her. Even in the small amount of time involved, 20 minutes in the morning
and 20 minutes in the evening to bring the body and mind to what is described as
the least excited state, she felt a world that had closed in on her open up
aagain.ddddddddddddChanning ultimately didnt use her final two seasons of
eligibility at Villanova. She felt better by then, but the love for the game had
gone.Channing remained focused on meditation and began to pursue the means to
teach it, including three months of intensive study in India. But it wasnt until
a year with meditation had passed that she finally opened up to Christen about
her struggles by then over.Ive always felt like my job is to protect my sister,
Christen said. Even growing up, on the playground, when my sister was too shy I
would speak for her. ... I even had dreams where I had to save her, growing up,
all the time -- like she was falling and I had to save her.So it was sad and
shocking that I hadnt seen this huge thing happening because I was probably so
wrapped up in what I was doing with soccer and the stress that I was feeling.It
was at about this time that Christen faced a crossroads of her own with soccer.
The Hermann Trophy winner as the nations best college player as a senior at
Stanford, she finished school just in time to see Womens Professional Soccer
(WPS) fold later that year. She hadnt yet made inroads with the national team,
although she certainly felt the pressure to do so. It was not the happiest of
times.I think that during college I would say I did not enjoy playing soccer,
Christen said. Its funny because people on this team are like, Oh college, the
good old days. And Im like, Im so glad Im not in that. Those were the awful
days.Stanfords an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer
program. Its no one to blame. I was just living in my own mental hell because of
the pressure that I felt to score goals and perform and win games for my team.
It was never good enough. I remember playing games and having tears roll down my
face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.Part of the
solution came from expanding her horizons geographically. She moved to Sweden
that fall to play in its professional league, immersed in a new way of playing
the game on the field and a new culture off it that emphasized quality of life
over relentless achievement.But part of her own turnaround came from a change of
perspective less rooted in an atlas. As Tyler and mother Stacy did first with
Channing, Christen soon took the same course and sought her younger sisters
advice. Meditation helped in small ways -- Christen felt as if her regimen
completely alleviated any jet lag when she first arrived in Sweden -- but also
in more profound ways.I think that there is a chance I wouldnt be here, Christen
said of the influence of meditation. Im a pretty determined person, even when I
was totally neurotic, so there is part of me that is like, I would be here, and
I would just be grinding this out until the death of me. But I think its a
totally different experience coming here and being confident in who I am, being
a person that isnt disrupted by small setbacks.By owning and having ownership
over my own happiness, I think that makes this experience so much better.Tyler
talked Channing out of retirement not so long ago, the two playing together on a
recreational team in Southern California, the games played purely for fun. And
while Channings recent move to Las Vegas will split up the duo, she intends to
find a new league.But for evidence of a little sisters peace of mind, just look
to the soccer stadiums of Brazil this month.I think its also a way for us to
better understand each other, Channing said. For me, being able to share
meditation is a way to really express my encouragement of what shes doing and
just share with her that Im proud that she does what she does. ' ' '
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