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The Soccer Life: Jack Jewsbury tells the story of how kids joined players on the pitch after games for the postgame lap

Editor’s Note: Much is written about soccer from a host of different people covering the score, the games, the goals, the highlights, the transactions, the rumors, the playoffs, the rivalries and much more.

But cutting through all of that noise, what is it like from the perspective of the player?

In “The Soccer Life,” a periodic new series running throughout the 2017 MLS season, we talk with retired Portland Timbers midfielder Jack Jewsbury about what it’s like down on the pitch. Jewsbury enjoyed a 14-year professtional career playing for both the then-Kansas City Wizards (now Sporting Kansas City) and Portland.