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Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.
They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime
It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.
I think England is one of the biggest soccer leagues in the world - fantastic! Just like Spain's LaLiga also, with big players, big teams.
I am not a person who loves to watch games and that doesn't mean I don't like soccer. I take advantage to do other things in my free time.
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.
The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.
A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!
American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.
The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.
I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.
I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.
My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal, but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer.
To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.
Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
When I was growing up, you couldn't watch soccer on TV. But now, you can get it on every channel, every hour of the day, every day, literally.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.
All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.
Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true
I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.
I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.
I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.
We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.
My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two years until the age of seven.
The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.
Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.
The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.
In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a... well, yes I am.
The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery
The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Watching soccer is very sexy. Small pads, shorts, good legs, and they usually don't have mangled faces. Also, all the good ones have rad accents.