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3 unusual facts about Soccer


Dudley Freightliner Terminal

There have also been plans for housing and even a new football stadium to be built on the site.

San Jose Earthquakes Stadium

San Jose Earthquakes Stadium is the working name of an under construction soccer specific stadium that is being built in San Jose, California, for Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes.

Soccer's Hard Men

The video featured footage of British players (some still playing at the time and others who had by then retired) known for their ferocity, including Graeme Souness, Bryan Robson, Nobby Stiles, Norman Hunter, Jack Charlton, Steve McMahon, Tommy Smith, Peter Storrie, Ron "Chopper Harris" and Billy Bremner.


1936 Coupe de France Final

The 1936 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes on May 3, 1936, that saw RC Paris defeat FCO Charleville 1–0 thanks to a goal by Roger Couard.

Académica Petróleos do Lobito

Académica Petróleos do Lobito, usually known as Académica Lobito, are a football (soccer) club from Lobito, Angola.

Al Saunders

Saunders was born in the north London suburb of Hendon as part of a sporting family; his great-uncle, Ron Saunders, played soccer for a number of teams in The Football League and later became a manager, winning honours with Norwich City and Aston Villa.

Aleksandr Zakharov

Aleksandr Viktorovich Zakharov (b. 1969), Soviet Russian football (soccer) player

Altimont Butler

In 2007, Butler was named the head soccer coach at Oratory Preparatory School in Summit, New Jersey.

Arizona Thunder

Many of the players grew up and played youth soccer in AZ including Randy Soderman, Rick Soderman, Jason Vanacour, Milo Iniguez, Mark Kerlin, Derick Brownell, Kenneth Wright (Thea), Sasha Hunter, Dave Cameron, along with many implants like Milos Tomic, Chris Scotti, and the Dunn Brothers.

Bossley Park, New South Wales

Marconi Stadium, opened in 1956, is the home stadium of the Marconi Stallions, who won the national soccer competition, a record four times.

Cambridge University Association Football League

This gives Cambridge University county status (separate from Cambridgeshire), with the same voice in English football's governing body as such associations as London, the Army and Women's football.

Carlos Guirland

Carlos Alberto Guirland Báez (born 18 September 1961 in San Ignacio) is a retired football (soccer) midfielder from Paraguay.

Cayetano Ré

Cayetano Ré Ramírez (7 February 1938 – 26 November 2013) was a Paraguayan footballer striker and coach who was born in Asunción.

Cerâmica Atlético Clube

Cerâmica Atlético Clube, usually known as simply as Cerâmica, is a Brazilian football club from Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul state, founded by the workers of the Ceramic of Gravataí.

César Vega

César Javier Vega Perrone (born September 2, 1959 in Montevideo) is a retired football defender from Uruguay.

Charlie Davies

Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a child Davies was encouraged to play soccer and coached by his father Kofi Davies, an immigrant from the Gambia.

Chatham Township, New Jersey

Dan Canter (born 1961), soccer defender who played three seasons in the North American Soccer League and three in Major Indoor Soccer League, in addition to playing with the United States men's national soccer team.

Eliakim Khumalo

Khumalo played for Moroka Swallows in the First Division where he helped win their only SA Soccer Championship in 1965 and later Kaizer Chiefs in NPSL being one of its first recruits in 1971 and also finishing as a runner up in that season.

ESPN Major League Soccer

On August 4, 2006, ESPN reached a comprehensive multimedia agreement with Soccer United Marketing (SUM) for the rights to Major League Soccer through 2014.

Forensic speechreading

John Terry was alleged to have made a crude racist remark against Anton Ferdinand in the course of a televised premier league soccer match between Chelsea football club and Queen's Park Rangers.

Greg Ion

Ion was soccer marketer for Adidas and is Program Director of their ESP youth program.

Heather Aldama

Heather Marie Aldama (born 1 December 1978, in Redlands, California) is a retired American soccer midfielder who was a member of the United States women's national soccer team.

Hjálmar Þórarinsson

Hjálmar Þórarinsson (born 16 February 1986, in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic footballer currently playing as a striker for Berserkir.

Hwang Ho-Lyeong

Hwang Ho-Lyeong (born 15 October 1984) is a South Korean footballer who plays for Gyeongju KHNP FC in the Korea National League.

Jim Rilatt

Rilatt continued to coach youth soccer with Lake Oswego Soccer Club before being hired in 2009 as Director of Coaching for youth club EastSide United FC where Portland Timbers General Manager Gavin Wilkinson serves as Technical Director.

John Coady

He attended Synge Street CBS, where he played on the school's first successful soccer team, winning the Leinster Junior School's Cup in 1977.

John Ellinger

While at Bradenton, Ellinger had a significant role in developing many of the most outstanding of American soccer players, including Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Bobby Convey, Edward Johnson, Chad Marshall, Freddy Adu, Eddie Gaven, Danny Szetela, and Jonathan Spector.

Louis Ducruet

Louis is a huge fan of soccer and supports his hometeam AS Monaco FC with great enthusiasm.

Marcio Leite

Leite was injured again with the same injury while playing for the Croatian Eagles Soccer Club in the annual Labor Day Croatian-North American Soccer Tournament in Cleveland, Ohio in September 2009.

Marco Parra

Marco Antonio Parra Téllez (born January 22, 1985 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for CF La Piedad of the Liga de Ascenso.

Mario Party DS

For example, "Soccer Survival" involves trying to dodge soccer balls being kicked by a Goomba.

Miguel Angel Lavié da Cunda

He was in the Uruaguay team that won the U-17 International Soccer Tournament played in September 2002 in Italy which was held in memory of the September 11 attacks.

Mtutuzeli Hlomela

Mtutu had played soccer at junior level and at age 17, won a "football" scholarship through the South Australian and Western Cape sports ministries.

New Town Eagles

Newtown Eagles Football Club is a soccer club which represents New Town in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League.

Oppong

Dominic Oppong (born 1986), Ghanaian-born Canadian soccer player

Pēteris Lauks

Pēteris Lauks (10 February 1902 in Riga - 15 March 1984 in Kitchener, Canada) was a Latvian football defender, one of the most capped footballers for Latvia national football team before World War II.

Popular Science Predictions Exchange

Will a team of androids beat the human World Cup champions at a game of soccer by December 31, 2050?

Ray Chadwick

Ray is the father of former Canadian Youth International and current US Soccer International Sydney Leroux.

Rick Blubaugh

Rick Brian Blubaugh (born December 28, 1964, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri) is an American former professional soccer player.

Romelle Burgess

Born in Saint Michael, Burgess moved to the United States in 2002 to attend Southern New Hampshire University, becoming just one of four college soccer players there to earn All-Conference honors four times.

San Jose Frogs

Jacob Wilson was the top scorer of the very impressive opening campaign; testament to this was the fact that, in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft, seven Frogs were drafted by Major League Soccer, including Brandon McDonald and Luke Sassano.

Santiago Ostolaza

Santiago Javier Ostolaza Sosa (born July 10, 1962 in Dolores, Soriano) is an Uruguayan former football midfielder and current manager.

Seattle Sounders FC supporters

In the wake of the Haiti disaster, Gorilla FC raised over $20,000 dollars with the help of players Steve Zakuani, Patrick Ianni, and James Riley.

Starfire Sports

Starfire features fields for indoor and outdoor soccer, and occasionally rugby union games, as well as a 4,500-seat soccer stadium previously used by the USL Seattle Sounders and now used by the MLS Seattle Sounders FC for US Open Cup matches, the Seattle Reign FC of the NWSL, and the Seattle Sounders Women of the W-League.

Stevie O'Reilly

Stevie O'Reilly (born 13 December 1966) is a Scottish football referee who is active in the Scottish Premier League.

Strong Rock Christian School

In the GHSA Class A Girls Soccer Tournament, Strong Rock beat Providence Christian Academy 3-2 in the first round, but lost to Pace Academy 1-3 in the semifinal.

Tomás Guzmán

Tomás Guzmán fullname Tomás Andrés Guzmán Gaetan (born 7 March 1982 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan football striker who plays for Olimpia in the Primera División Paraguaya.

U.S. Cellular Community Park

It features five baseball fields which includes professional-sized field and two youth baseball fields, four softball fields, a professional-sized championship soccer field which is home to the Southern Oregon Fuego professional soccer team and two sports fields.

U17

FIFA U-17 World Cup, football (soccer) championship for boys under 17 years

US Sénart-Moissy

US Sénart-Moissy is a French football club based in Moissy-Cramayel (Seine-et-Marne) and member of the Championnat de France amateur - Group D.

Wilson Surubim

Edwilson de Lima Florêncio also known as Wilson Surubim (born on 28 March 1980 in Toritama) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Sociedade Esportiva Ypiranga Futebol Clube.

Winnipeg Lucania FC

Winnipeg Lucania Football Club is an amateur soccer club based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Yorston

Harry Yorston, (1929–1992), Scottish professional soccer player


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