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'We always have a good time:' Soccer provides Tierra Caliente players refuge from daily stresses

Ten of the 15 all-female Tierra Caliente soccer team members got together for a pickup game Monday at Emmett J. Conrad High School in Dallas.All of them wore a purple jersey, except for Sayra Santibañez, who donned a burgundy jersey.She's the team's leader and goalkeeper. Santibañez, who is from Michoacán, Mexico, normally has a busy day, working nine-hour shifts as an office cleaner.Soccer is her escape valve."The best thing you can do is destress and forget there's laundry and dirty dishes waiting at home -- at least for a while," said Santibañez, 31, a mother of two teens."For the couple of hours we spend on the field, I forget about everything, I even forget who am I.

 

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