11.   He played for the San Jose Seahawks, an amateur team.

12.   His Pasadena club coach had wangled a tryout for him with an Ajax scout, which led to an offer to join their amateur team.

13.   Imagine the Atlanta Braves playing an amateur team of deeply devoted yet inexperienced players from, say, Australia.

14.   In past decades, they were rival sponsors of amateur teams in the Detroit suburbs.

15.   On their amateur team, Johnston was the center midfielder, or playmaker.

16.   On weekends when the collard crop thinned out, he played baseball with amateur teams.

17.   Parreira never played professionally either, but did play goalkeeper in Brazil with a second-division amateur team.

18.   Papile found friends and BABC alums to take over the amateur team while he coached in college.

19.   That two amateur teams were assigned to play a game Monday night at the Vet so the network production staff could warm up may have been telltale.

20.   The area could become an all-soccer complex, with practice fields and, possibly, a small stadium for amateur teams.