ANOTHER STORY ON THAT SOCCER GAME AND GIVING BACK THE STADIUM.

But where it says "510th" in the story, it is supposed to say "501st".

And that would be our guys!

The score didn’t matter.

And that was a good thing, because the soccer game Tuesday between American troops assembled from the divisions around Baghdad and a second-tier local Iraqi club was a little lopsided.

OK, more than a little lopsided. The final score was 11-0, and it was the American team that didn’t find the net.

But again, the score didn’t matter. What did matter was that the Iraqis were playing soccer again in al-Sha’ab stadium, which was turned back to them by American troops who had been using it since entering the Iraqi capital.

“Basically, you had support units using the Olympic facilities,” said Lt. Col. Antonio Coleman (CPT Patti's Boss), commander of the 510th Forward Support Battalion from Friedberg, Germany.

Coleman said the facilities have been used for a variety of purposes, including the billeting of some personnel. His unit was supposed to be the next to move into the facility, “but we found a home elsewhere.”

That allowed a series of facilities to be given back to the Iraqis.

Read it here.