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Even while losing, these kids learned to win

source: NBC Sports | Dec 02, 08 | submitted by Pat Coate

Manhattan Beach, California, USA - If this were a movie, Garrett Roth, who is 8 years old and autistic, would have stepped up for the last penalty kick in his youth-soccer league game, the Blue Lightning against Manhattan United, and knocked it home to deliver a playoff victory for Big Blue.

And then the other kids came over to tell him, good job. And that, he said, felt "so, so, so good."


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"We didn’t win many games. But we learned how to lose. How to support each other and come together as a team."
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