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Bruce Murray spent years heading the ball. He worries it took a toll.

Soccer

Bruce Murray remembers every micro detail from the 1990 World Cup: scoring a goal, assisting on another and, with a band of former college stars leading the U.S. national team, helping put a mighty scare into Italy.

He recounts learning the game on the fields of Bretton Woods Recreation Center in Germantown, where his father, Gordon, was the golf pro.

Other memories from a lifetime in soccer remain vivid: winning two NCAA trophies with Clemson, sitting next to track star Florence Griffith Joyner on the flight to the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics and being inducted to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.