By Aaron Hutchins, Maclean’s Magazine
There are no words from Buddha about how to save a breakaway in soccer. He has no advice on how to run through a maze of players on a corner kick and jump with a fist flying through the air to punch away a ball. Nor can he provide any tips about where an opponent tends to shoot a penalty shot.
But as Erin McLeod travels across North America with Canada’s women’s national soccer team, on the last leg before the Women’s World Cup kicks off June 6, she’ll read a few pages of Buddha quotes every morning when she wakes up, and again before she goes to sleep. Then she’ll reflect on being present in the moment, and embracing the growth from a mistake and then letting it go.
The plight of the soccer goalie is that they are rarely in the middle of the action. They are asked to make only a handful of saves each game, but for every shot on net, the game’s fate rests in their hands.
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