World Cup

Latin America, to Europe, to Asia and Africa, and North America. This sport is known here in America as soccer, and it’s been the world’s leading sport for a very long time now. If anyone asks me, I would say it’s really not that fun to watch the world compete via the same sport. Soccer is praised internationally, however, other sports, such as baseball, basketball, and American football, are not given as much attention worldwide. And there are some nations who have never heard of those sports,…

matches. In the 1985 pro soccer was legalized, after that the Football League was established. The first season had 12 clubs. (Street Directory) Women were excluded until the late 19th Century, women could play. The FA Cup was the most important competition ever, besides the FIFA World Cup 1930 with (Uruguay) playing every four years. England and Scotland were the national teams which at the end of the game was left to 0-0.…

olympic gold and the FIFA Women’s World Cup? If you said Alex Morgan, you are correct. Alex came to be the youngest player of the U.S women’s national soccer team in 2009. In 2011 she was the first chosen at the Women’s Professional soccer draft. In 2012 at the Summer Olympic Games, because she helped the U.S women’s team beat Japan, she received her first Olympic gold medal. Three years later, she defeated Japan, again, in order to win the FIFA Women’s World Cup. I think she is really…

For years now I have learned how to play many sports, but I have fell in love with one sports in particular; soccer. One love this sport just because they can run faster, or that was the dominant sport where one was born and raise, but the Good Samaritan acts done by soccer players. I first came interested in soccer back in 2006 when Didier Drogba (Ivorian footballer) stopped civil war in Ivory Coast and later came across an article of how Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé (Retired…

assisting a goal in Barcelona’s 2-0 win. In soccer, players are often subject to abuse from fans or other players because of the color of their skin or where they’re from. Racism is a major problem in soccer, yet it is generally ignored by fans and world organizations alike, and is not taken seriously. Soccer is such…

Nike is the leading brand for athletic apparel and footwear in the world. Nike’s core marketing strategy is to use the “pyramid of influence” approach. In that approach, Nike looks to small number of top athletes to promote the use of their product. In the early years, running legend and international track star, Steve Prefontaine, became the first spokesman. Nike was fortunate to contract another athletic legend, Michael Jordan, as a spokesperson. Nike took a gamble with Jordan, but the…

“Soccer Vs. Football Around the World” Soccer and Football are two sports that people around the world always have misunderstood about. Football is mainly an American sport, but it is growing rapidly around the world. Soccer in the other hand is played worldwide. Although soccer and football are similar because they are both famous sports. Soccer become more popular than football because football is more concentrated in US. Soccer players are famous all over the world and there are more…

in Belgium has been noted as a great improvement. It moved from fifty third rank to the first in ten years in Fifa World Ranking. When Belgium National Team’s current squad and 2006 squad are investigated, big differences are outstanding. Being the first football team in Fifa World Ranking, Belgium National Team…

who was a Jamaican-born Footballer who played for the Club team Liverpool FC from 1987 to 1997. He made 407 appearances and scored 108 goals during his time with the team, and won two league titles and one FA Cup. He also had 79 appearances for England, played in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups and was twice the winner of the Football Writers’ Player of the Year award. He was on the receiving side of some very vicious racial abuse from fans and players as well. He was racially abused in a game…

We love to kick the ball around, go to the pub and watch The United States struggle at the World Cup, play FIFA, or go weekend’s FC Dallas game. Youth soccer smashes the participation rates than football and baseball (basketball still is ahead). The identity of soccer never comes from someone who is older than 25 years old. They think soccer is…