There’s apparently soccer leagues that they’ve set up with young Indian girls.

The StadiumHave you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing less mute than stands...

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.

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the...

You may be in Georgia thinking, ‘Gee, I wonder how soccer moms in Kansas feel about that issue,’

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.

I read somewhere that spiders can spin silk strong enough to hold the weight of a thousand trucks. I tried to imagine those lines of silver, thinner than air, stronger than steel. Sometimes I think...

Spanish soccer, which has chosen me to be coach.

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that...

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Soccer definitely helped with my conditioning, and I felt like I got quicker. This year it was different because I didn’t play. As a team we had a great summer and fall, and I wanted...

All these guys have played a lot of soccer with a lot of different players. They’ve played on regional teams, club teams, national teams, so I think almost everywhere we go, inevitably there’s players that...

Football is the ballet of the masses.

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don’t go to football matches but that doesn’t make football any less important.

You can see there’s a lot of soccer in that player, so we’re hopeful.

Soccer speaks for itself. It doesn’t matter where you’re from.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.

She was a great leader, a great soccer player. The strength of the team is the team, not the individuals. She was somebody we looked toward to make things happen. And her personality was even...

I’m sure they talk a lot. I’m sure it’s a lot about soccer, but I’m also sure a lot of it’s not. It’s about life and how they’re enjoying their different experiences and things like...

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players,

Once you sit in this stadium, you realize it’s one of the great places to watch soccer.

We played great soccer and with a bit of luck, we could have scored a couple more. Now we’ll have to beat the Latvians.

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

Sometimes in soccer, the ball doesn’t bounce your way.

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and...

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

Fuck. You. It’s foot… Yeah, it’s you.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c’est au football que je le dois.(I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

I’d much rather watch football than football.” But I’m just teasing them, and they know I’d really rather watch football than football.

This is not an easy trip for Notre Dame soccer, but it’s a trip I think we have got the ability to take something positive out of it.

We were good on the counter attack and created a lot of chances . . . there was some very good soccer on display today from our players in the second half.

Gli italiani perdono le partite di calcio come se fossero guerre e perdono le guerre come se fossero partite di calcio.

(The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They smear on substantial quantities of hair care products and expend considerable mental energies...

Football is all about sentiment; if it weren’t then we’d all support Manchester United.

Don’t you want to get well? Come on, Portia, this won’t be forever, mate: Dad’s confident, everyone’s behind you. Remember,’ I gave her an encouraging punch on the arm, ‘you’ll never walk alone, even if...

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

…I’ve spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as “the sport of the future” since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never...

He’s a player who eliminates his rivals and that makes him a type of terrorist in today’s soccer. He eliminates them, leaving them without any hope of recovery.