Talent, as the writer Daniel Coyle argues, tends to be cultivated in clusters. Soccer in Maine is no different, as there is an 838-square mile swath of Maine that produces an outsized amount of soccer talent compared to the rest of the state. To visually appreciate this "Golden Triangle" of soccer talent in Maine, you would place three pins on a map of Maine with the towns of Gorham as the northwest vertex, Cape Elizabeth as the southeast point, and Richmond as the northeast boundary.There are a few resources I should recognize, without whom I couldn't have written this column. First, there's Michael Jeffrey, whose curation of the Maine Soccer Coaches Web site allowed me to find information that would've been very difficult--if not impossible--to find otherwise. And, secondly, there's the staff at the Portland Public Library whose stewardship of newspaper archives dating back to the 1970s and beyond saved me much time and travel. And finally, the responses I received from various high school coaches were also very helpful.
Related: The Geography of Talent (December 15- December 20, 2012)
- John C.L. Morgan
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