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Knut was no longer the cuddly little teddy bear romping with a soccer ball, but a 245-pound eating machine.

Chinese solar power company Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. is hoping this year's soccer World Cup will give it a leg up.

And I'll simply explain about each of the things that the soccer ball hit. That seemed like sort of a cheap shot.

Over the past three decades, the Dutch appeared to come to terms with their place in soccer's natural order.

Manager Diego Maradona, once the greatest soccer player on Earth, has been reduced to something of a cartoonish figure.

Officials said the only tickets still available were for soccer qualification games to be held in other Chinese cities.

He was joking, of course, but there is no denying the passion with which soccer fans all around the world follow their favorite teams.

The Soccer City Stadium where the opening ceremony was set to take place in just a few days' time. . .

But the professor was delighted to see that pundits' rankings of the best soccer players closely matched the new system's results.

A sports extremely popular glossary , the soccer lottery ticket is nobody did not know.

In 2003, she was offered a contract by a top Italian men's soccer club but turned it down, considering it a publicity stunt.

It is common to see that people, especially teenagers, stay awake at night to watch their favourite soccer teams or players.

Performing freestyle soccer allowed athletes to be focused on every movement, maneuvering the ball and their body as if it were one.

A few days later we took another run at it, but this time we were an organized soccer club, and I was the president.

The German Football Association, the country's governing soccer body, said the coach wasn't available to comment.

While some argue soccer has no future in this country, other indicators say the sport could be on the road to mainstream respectability.

She says with millions of American youngsters already playing, it is only a matter of time before soccer is just as popular in this country.

Still, it's a testament to German soccer that Germany is the only European side to have so many top finishes in such a short time span.

Kim is shown smiling, wearing his trademark sunglasses with a brown jacket and black pants, but scenes of any soccer match are not visible.

Think back a year or two. Picture yourself at a cocktail party or maybe picking up the kids from soccer.

If you can be invited to participate in a number of like swimming, soccer matches and other activities, it would be a good idea.

It is what I have called an extra-lusory skill, one that should not be considered part of soccer and has no place in it.

Of course not, the children enjoy going to soccer practice as often as they have soccer practice.

The soccer team meets twice a week to work out with weights.

Soccer is a horrible sport and if we become good at it we will have to hear about it on our news channels and read about it in the paper.

Just as wealth and success on the field go hand in hand in today's pro soccer, so can disaster on the field bring disaster at the bank.

"You can't stop criticism of the men's soccer team, " he said in an interview. "Everyone hates the team. "

On your way to a soccer game or activity, it's easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?

Chelsea are ready to move into the American market by linking up with Major League Soccer's leading club, DC United.

I told Soccer Australia (now FFA) that he had a medical problem - so don't get Harry here for simple games, keep him for big games.

Now he claims to have been the victim of a foul off the soccer field and is seeking redress from a Chinese court.

Robot soccer, and of course it would control, one-on-one mode, then kicked the ball over to the other side can score inside the door.

A: this is the biggest sports anyway, people crazy about it a normal guy like me, one of the biggest thing in life is watching soccer.

'It's a little bit of a joke, ' said Antonio Zea, director of soccer for Adidas America.

the last one, you know what you would have dedicated yourself of not to have been soccer player?

David Beckham will visit every Major League Soccer city after his U. S. arrival in mid-July, and television viewers will see lots of him.

It had long been the Galaxy's intention to hold an open tryout this winter, just as other Major League Soccer clubs do every few seasons.

One of the main differences among soccer balls is how much the air flow follows the ball's surface.

He was interested in pursuing a career as a professional soccer player, but his mother convinced him to train as a teacher.

Soccer is often considered the world's game, but that doesn't mean the whole world is very good at it.

His mother said he is reading three books at a time, whizzing through math homework and even playing soccer.

dan, I know that you're mr. soccer now, But you and I both know you prefer to hang out with girls. Vanessa, serena, once upon a time.

With the third generation, he said, the grandmother is always complaining about the kids' Spanish and why they don't play soccer.

At the moment we are trying to get enough players for a Sunday kick around at chou ma soccer pitch .

Amy was a soccer player with the Australian national team, and she played on the United States professionally as well.

Kids play soccer in a dusty lot as the sun goes down in a rural community outside Rustenburg June 24.

He helped me with my Iraqi Arabic, and we talked about everything from the regime to soccer to life in the United States.

American football is not like soccer, Players sometimes kick the ball, but they also throw the ball and run with it.

I confessed my desire to be a soccer ball, and risk being kicked around, if it was the only way I could catch her attention.

Today's soccer moms are faced with a number of challenges that soccer moms of yesterday did not have to deal with.

It was when he began lifting weights to train for the local soccer team that Schwarzenegger first sensed that he was destined for greatness.

When Major League Soccer (MLS) recruited Mr Beckham, it was more interested in what he could do off the field.

But that's what soccer is all about. Skillfully moving the ball with just your feet and head!

Just as you don't ask Peyton Manning for soccer tips, you don't ask a veterinarian to do your prostate exam.

Back at school, Sayaka confronts Ai at the soccer field or something and asks her to leave her and WG alone.

He has learned to take food from his owner's hand, swim through hoops and tubes, and even put a miniature soccer ball into a goal!

Mr. Li told investors he took a lesson from watching the World Cup, comparing his investment style to soccer.

Soccer is growing in the US and I'd like to be a part of that.

Whether it was softball, basketball or soccer, whether his girls Melissa and Sara played or not, hededicated himself to his teams.

They did not identify him when fans from the opposing team at a soccer match on Saturday made up lewd Giggs-related chants.

But forward Eddie Johnson of Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders says at least this time the group has had more training days together.

For soccer fans, being able to meet Beckham would be the chance of a lifetime.

U. S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati was as disappointed as other followers, and put the team's first-round exit in perspective.

The object of soccer is to drive the ball past the opposing goalkeeper into the goal for a score, worth one point.

Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo will be sidelined at least a month after breaking his hand in a league match over the weekend.

A recent Xinhua article notes the Chinese preoccupation with other Asian teams and calls it a 'bittersweet moment' for Chinese soccer fans.

It rained so much that they had to call off the soccer game.

It seems soccer is a privilege for men in the beginning, at least when I was in school soccer is a sport no matter of our girls.

Video game giant Konami have released the front cover of the latest version of Pro Evolution Soccer featuring our very own Fernando Torres.

But on Shaolin Soccer it was like the camera was a new boyfriend. I felt shy around it.

"We play soccer like the Brazilians play Ping-Pong, " he said.

Bryant once said that if he had stayed in Italy, he would have stuck with soccer and would have tried to become a pro soccer player.

It is really true that some soccer stars play for money only and are ready to do something against sportsmanship.

Don'exhaust yourself. Recreations as sightseeing, skiing, solar bathing and playing soccer are all good choices for you to relax.

Even though our company don't manufacture this kind of leather soccer ball, but we already found a company that does.

As you know, Tom is good at playing soccer.

That will certainly help the outdoor events and we have a lot of football (soccer), baseball, and softball coming up in the next few days.

She caught up with me the next morning and told me I didn't need to transform into a soccer ball to catch her attention.

You know what? I just made first string on the soccer team. Ya right. You can't even run a mile without losing your breath.

As a father, I saw that same spirit of unity alive on the fields and sidelines of my own daughters' soccer games in Chicago.

To strengthen the special fitness of our soccer players, we should reevaluate aerobic training and carry it out in practice.

To get the overall information of the field, the self- localization of autonomous soccer robot is one of sticking points and must be solved.

Real men--real boys--played soccer just as Baba had when he had been young. Now "that" was something to be passionate about.

world soccer jersey shop he said it world soccer shop was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life air max shoes and fulfillment.

Quit the soccer team if it's no longer fun, quit grad school if it's no longer what you want to do.

How about watching a Spanish football (soccer) match with a local in Barcelona or Madrid before heading out for the night?

I did coach soccer to all the children in my village until my own children moved into another age group.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attack and defense switching factors between the soccer winning and losing teams.

Faced with the long history and traditions of Italian soccer, he didn't attack as fiercely as he did in the group matches.

Soccer games tend to make people a little sweaty, and that's not a turn on when you've got a date in an hour.

"We must not lag behind the other soccer teams. " Said the team leader of Star. "No, we must n't, " they all shook their heads.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls and so people were always knocking on my door and trying to get me out, so we could play.

He said soccer fans should love sound of the horn as it is part of the unique experience of South Arican soccer.

You're a bored housewife trying to kill time between spin class and driving your kid to soccer practice.

In soccer-mad countries like the U. K. , many companies don't even try to ban the matches.

There was no money to pay professional players, and there was little interest in soccer in the high schools and colleges.

RF : I loved sports as a very small child already and was fascinated by anything to do with balls (soccer, table-tennis, squash).

Agnew says the reasons the USA isn't as soccer-mad as the rest of the world "are purely cultural, and there's nothing wrong with that. "

Do you mind if I change the channel ? The Asia soccer semi final between China and South Korea is going to be living televised soon .

His father would refuse to drive him to soccer practice because he thought using a car to travel somewhere to exercise was ridiculous.

Now, the government is taking a step to shore up the reputation of that most dubious of national sports icons: the men's soccer team.

I had grown up in England and was genetically pre-conditioned to hate women's soccer.

I'm afraid to tell my mom because she might get angry with me and won't let me play soccer.

He said they could face expulsion from FIFA and a ban on all future soccer engagements.

It says the attack was a warning to Indonesians "against the arrival of the soccer club Manchester United" at the hotel.

It's OK for a low turnover item like tennis nets. But for soccer equipment and tennis rackets, we won't make much of a satisfactory profit.

Just as the balance of power is shifting in economics, one can't help feeling that it is in soccer, too.

Soccer super star David Beckham is a father again after his wife Victoria gave birth to a baby boy in Madird today.

In his final act of duty, less than a month ago, he worked with other members of his unit to build a soccer field for Iraqi children.

She attributed the drop to competition with the World Cup, even though the show did not compete directly with live soccer broadcasts.

B: I'm going to watch the soccer game replay. My parents won't let me watch in the early morning. I'm so mad at them.

In recent years, a number of private soccer schools have sprung up in Africa's most populous country.

Another of the boys being coached at ClubFootball, Zhang Tianyang, is six and a half and has been a soccer fan since 2006.

Dario: People with two perfectly good arms play soccer but the rules say that you can't use them to touch the ball!

But soccer is one of the few games where the scoreboard can be completely misleading.

My husband snores louder than a lawnmower, and I kick him harder than Beckham with a soccer ball. We both slept much better when single.

Bruce Arena's coaching contract with the U. S. Soccer team runs until the end of this year, and Gulati said there will be no hasty decision.

Shingadia said he is just an ordinary bloke, a fan of the Arsenal soccer team who lives with his parents.

Mr. Rayburn: Really? I've seen her act like a pro on the soccer field, but I was worried about her performance in school.

I stayed with my son at his first soccer practice and looked on as the coach worked with the boys.

But the global soccer community is not always one big happy family. Hooliganism and riots have long stalked the game.

He joined an Indonesian Boy Scout troop and played soccer, which would not become popular in the United States until years later.

The children drew animals, flowers and people playing soccer under a bulb bright sky.

The venue will be the same, but Nepstadion is now known as Ferenc Puskas Stadion, in honor of Hungary's greatest soccer glory.

I don't know anything about table tennis, but when my former soccer coach stopped by to recruit me for a local club, I agreed to join.

Three Chasers, Harry repeated, as Wood took out a bright red ball about the size of a soccer ball.

There's no culture of staying after school to play, or to get a game together at a local soccer field.

American football, not to be confused with the football called soccer, is the American national sport.

THE MATCH A game of soccer is called a match and is split into two halves of 45 minutes each, with a 15-minute break at halftime.

It is said, the Greek and Israel in Middle Ages , native of Rome Already been engaged in a kind of soccer game ago.

It is said, the Greek and Israel in Middle Ages , native of Rome Already been engaged in a kind of soccer game ago.

After the Beijing soccer team did really badly last season they all blamed the captain. He was really thrown to the wolves by his teammates.

The company has different variations of this logo for its various departments like Skate, Soccer etc.

Does your child realize that soccer practice is twice a week, right after school until dinnertime?

'To understand Japan's strategy in soccer, one must understand its political and economic battle to catch up internationally, ' he writes.

Thanks to his unbelievable performance in the World Cup of 1986, Maradona was considered one of the greatest soccer players.

Our class could play soccer for a week without stopping!

I've seen her act like a professional on the soccer field, but I was worried about her performance in school.

So, if soccer is one of your passions, work some soccer drills into your regular training, or join a league.

First, our so called soccer phenom had not even mastered the simplest of soccer skills.

Growing up the son of avid churchgoers in Georgia, Harold was a soccer star and won a scholarship to American University in Washington, D.

Well, she used to date famous soccer player Christian Vieri, and she also became the presenter of a soccer TV program.

Structure and organization are often inappropriate, too: it's like 11 year olds playing soccer, with everyone chasing the ball.

He added that standard soccer techniques and patterns must be applied, although it was only a friendly match.

Russian news agencies said Russian Premier League soccer referee Vladimir Pettay and a Swedish citizen were among the victims.

Japan's women's soccer team dropped out of scheduled matches against the U. S. Women's National Team, citing H1N1 concerns.

Mark swoops in low, as though he is going to land on the field, and at the last second flings a soccer ball from the plane door.

The goal will be remembered as a symbol of a young man rising to meet a soccer ball - and the challenge of a lifetime.

In truth, international events like the Olympics and soccer's World Cup leave a greater discernible impact on infrastructure than on sports.

The Lions are a great soccer team, you know!

China will send up to 500 teenagers for training at top European soccer clubs over the next 5 years, according to the Guangzhou Daily.

Popular soccer player David Beckham has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award at just 35 years of age.

Mr. wang is an outstanding soccer player who wishes to parley his interest in athletics into a career.

Manchester United , the English soccer team with an adoring fan base in Europe and Asia, is filing to go public in the United States.

The company spent a lot of money in winning the support of stares like Pete Sampras, Tiger Wood, and members of Brazil's soccer team.

in the Middle East, Coke bottles have become accepted missiles with which to punish unjust umpires at soccer games.

Ronaldo, the great Brazilian soccer player, played for his national team when he was seventeen.

Join a team. Sign up for a softball, soccer or volleyball team through your local parks and recreation department.

Sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Picture yourself feeling prepared for your test or kicking the winning goal in soccer.

They were later banned from European soccer competitions like the UEFA Champions League.

Curiously, his speech flows fluently when he calls out to teammates while playing basketball or soccer.

The result of the research shows: the relative age effect is existed in Chinese male soccer players which are in difficult age groups.

The incident is the latest to plague China's Olympic soccer team during its two-week stay in London.

He enjoyed playing sports as a child, and he began lifting weights to build up his strenth for soccer and swimming.

I don't care for soccer, and today's no exception. So I don't feel like going to watch the game with you.

You know soccer is such an exciting game.

Late tackle is when a soccer player commits a tackle after an opponent has already played the ball.

It's not enough that, in terms of raw soccer talent, Spain may be twice as good as Paraguay, its quarterfinal opponent Saturday.

You may forget a soccer football will be all that glitch side willing to give up.

A major disappointment for me was the U. S. -Nigeria football (soccer) match. A U.

When you think of the past, you might think of people riding horses, wearing old-fashioned clothes and . . . playing soccer?

Every Sunday is Family Day for my family, and one of our favorite activities is playing soccer in our front yard as a family.

In women's soccer, China's Sun Wen and Michelle Acres of the United States were both recognized as the century's top female players.

Maybe your classmates think of you as a soccer star, but online you indulge your passion for chess and environmentalism.

The company said the World Cup soccer tournament cut admissions revenue by 26 percent in the 19-week period ended July 8.

UEFA, European soccer's ruling body, has banned vuvuzela horns at all of its clubs and international competitions, Bloomberg reported.

There, 25 to 30 guests will consume every last bit of the fungus, which is nearly the size of a soccer ball.

It was a low point in Myanmar's soccer history that even embarrassed some of its fans.

"It's greatly enhanced my kind of depressing soccer mom life, " she said.

Before those achievements, though, Ramos was a member of the U. S. men's soccer team at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

This was where Earl practiced his golf swing, hitting balls into a soccer net after work.

The appearance of caption is quite common in the soccer video and usually accompanies the occurrence of soccer event.

I'm a soccer fan . but I used to be a movie fan.

Siu-ming and a group of small partners into a green lawn for soccer.

Japan may have been able to bully China militarily in the 1930s, but China was busily routing it in soccer.

Handball has elements of both soccer and basketball. Handball is one of the fastest team ball sport.

But I was on a mission to find out. Shuffling through a soccer program, I found the most amazing picture.

Her eight-year-old son plays baseball and soccer, and her husband has a pool tournament two nights a week.

What makes an outstanding basketball or soccer player? He lets the net speak to him as much as he looks and aims towards it.

The little boys are too ready to play soccer every weekend.

He had not soccer jerseys seen him since that graduation day.

The names of professional football clubs are as well known to Americans as professional soccer clubs are Europeans and South Americans.

The truth is, in America, most professional soccer players have the luxury of being able to walk around without being recognized.

Argentina's Gabriel Heinze (left) and Mexico's Ricardo Osorio fight for the ball during their match at Soccer City in Johannesburg June 27.

In her free time , she enjoys being outdoors and participating in sports, including soccer, swimming, and martial arts.

The soccer matches taking place in Europe are attracting a lot of attention.

It was the first time one of them, Justin Braithwaite, had ever watched a soccer game at a bar.

The police told the children not to play soccer in street just now.

I love soccer so much and I don't play as well as others, of course.

If I become a soccer player, I can earn a lot of money, and become famous and popular.

Read Part 2 once more, fill in the form below and try to express the differences between American football and soccer.

Ironically, it was an Englishman, Charles Miller, who brought soccer to Brazil in the late 19th century.

Among the field is fights stand, the length 86 meters, the width 63 meters, was still the ellipse, is so big Equivalent to a soccer field.

He is a great Brazilian soccer player, and he played for the national team at the age of 17.

With her husband's soccer playing days coming to an end, it's good that one member of Team Beckham is still able to make millions!

The last time I got hurt playing soccer, my mom told me not to eat anything spicy.

You said your next match was against a girl soccer s' team. I expect that was funny! What was the score? DID you beat them easily?

If the States can produce players like him for the future, soccer will be in good health there.

If soccer game were to become a gambling tool, the positive values that associate with the game will be distorted.

Born with poor eyesight, he became totally blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident.

The system structure of a multi-processor embedded autonomous soccer-robot and relevant framework of vision system are proposed.

"We play soccer like the Brazilians play Ping-Pong, " Li Weifeng, 30, the new team captain, said with a deflated voice afterward.

To be a good soccer player one must be as fit as a fiddle.

Three days later Madrid will travel to Tianjin to take on Tianjin Teda, who were runners-up in the Chinese soccer league last season.

If Chinese continue to be obsessed with soccer, they'll definitely demand something dramatic, something political or involving rule of law.

But if 'new professionals' were the 'soccer moms' of the last election, how will this spill over into commercial life?

I always think of how If I can become anything else in my next life, I would like to become a soccer player.

Although soccer is China's most popular sport, fans are continually frustrated by the dismal performance of the men's team.

Pele holds a place among the greatest soccer players of the twentieth century.

For not having a team in the World Cup, China is getting deeply immersed in soccer--and not always in a healthy way.

(PhysOrg. com) -- The World Cup is in full swing, complete with an official new soccer ball named Jabulani, meaning "to celebrate" in Zulu.

Many Soccer moms are closet racists and probably will make it very clear to their children how they should feel about this.

But it's my dream to play soccer! Don't you think it's realty exciting that I could join the Lions?

That's one of the main reasons I set up my own soccer school in Dartford.

Robot soccer is now no longer his own mouth, but they have one unified mouth.

You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors?

They contend that the ball doesn't behave the way a normal soccer ball should, that it even turns the wrong way in mid-air.

nobody in the U. S. even cares about soccer and were still knockin off the number one team in the world! hahahahahahahahahaha.

You know I'm crazy about soccer, I don't go in much for table tennis.

And over the next few years, Real Madrid bought Beckham and three other soccer superstars.

She was referring to a knee injury that cost me half of my soccer season.

To illustrate, consider an organization that runs an after-school center, which offers art classes and a youth soccer program.

Roman Abramovich, the best-known oligarch not in jail, has conspicuously set new standards in buying mansions, ski resorts and soccer teams.

His mother allows him to play soccer after school.

But in soccer, with a large, relatively lightweight ball, this sharp, unexpected curve could actually occur in a game.

He confessed that he had a fondness for playing soccer and would participate in the sport when he had time.

Humanoid soccer robot efficiency would be influenced due to the machine restriction.

Decked out in their team's black-and-gold shirts, fans cheer on Soweto's Kaizer Chiefs soccer club during a December 2009 match in Pretoria.

The devoted fan of a Soccer club, Bettina draws all her energy from a packed stadium.

It was the biggest political controversy since a World Cup qualifier sparked the Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.

Yeah, that's a bummer. Like I always want to play sports but it's hard as you get older. When's the last time you played soccer?

Beckham signed for Galaxy from Real Madrid in 2007 as part of a drive to boost interest in soccer in the U.

Soccer coach, scout leading, any volunteer mentoring that he would be good at.

soccer and basketball are my favorite sports. They bring me passion and joy. And I also enjoy the team cooperation while playing.

Football Drills - Short Passing Welcome to the Videojug Soccer School, brought to you in association with the Brazilian Soccer Schools.

Attending a soccer practice can be an intense or light workout, depending on a variety of factors.

Even the most ardent soccer fans ought to temper their enthusiasm, experts who follow the sport in the United States say.

In April, RBS appointed Martin Broughton chairman of the soccer team as a condition of extending financing to the team by six months.

The word Diski is a township slang for soccer and may also describe the local style of football which focuses on dribbling and other tricks.

"I will not deceive myself, it (the selection) is like a start to a five-nil soccer game, " Carstens said after the meeting.