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How football, baseball — and not playing soccer made Red Wings' Andrew Copp a hockey star

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For Andrew Copp, his first potential roadblock in his sporting life came in soccer.

“I had a soccer coach tell me I should quit hockey and concentrate on soccer,” Copp recalled. “Not that I should, but I had to if I wanted to play on his team.”

At the time, Copp was all of 9 years old.