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A player from Silver Streaks tries to keep Team Genesis from taking the ball up the field and scoring. Both teams play in the FWSA 40+ division. Like most teams in the league, these two teams include women who played in high school, and some who took up the sport just five years ago

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Women on the Soccer Field

Local women are still in the game and on the field.

On Saturdays and weeknights in the spring and fall, women as young as 18 and as old as 78 can be found on the soccer fields across Fairfax County: nurses, lawyers, Army officers, software programmers, stay-at-home moms, lobbyists, graduate students, and grandmothers playing the game they love.

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