My favorite football team is the Miami Dolphins, and I have been watching football and the Dolphins ever since I was five years old. I didn't know a lot about football, but as the years passed, I started watching more and more games. The basics of the game and the more complicated parts about football became clearer. ... The thing I noticed as a little boy watching football was the amount of equipment players wear. ... Wearing equipment in football is a necessity in the game to prevent injury; serious and minor. ...

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Anyone who's watched a professional football match cannot help but notice it. ... They call it "diving" and it's become a plague in today's football. ... Football has incredibly changed in recent years. Footballers were athletes, they played with pride. ... Biographies of footballers from earlier years suggest that concealing pain and injury was seen as an important tactic in the game. ...

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Every four years, the World Cup is watched by literally billions all over the world, beating out the United States professional football's Superbowl by a large amount. ... There is no serious objection however because without television, football simply wouldn't remain in the homes and hearts of Americans. ... Second, Americans love violence, and soccer doesn't deliver on that subject the way that American football and hockey do. ... America loves its football games with scores like 45 to 39, and a professional basketball game with scores below 100 is regarded as a defensive bor...

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Football games for Greg were just a way of life. ... Tim was a cornerback on the UNC football team. ... One of Greg's dreams had always been to play football for UNC. He had grown up a soccer player, but his football dream had not completely vanished. ... He had begun in his tenth grade year at ECHHS to kick a football in his backyard for practice. ...

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That is right, futbol, and not football, is viewed by literally billions of fanatics around the globe. The assessed number of people tuning in to witness the 2002 World Cup was an astounding 1.7 billion, eclipsing the figure of pro football's Super Bowl. ... The soccer field is distinctively bigger than the football field, resulting in a drop off of production in soccer games. ... Football would be nowhere to be found in the homes and hearts of Americans without the TV market advantage. ... But with the insertion of a few marketable and fundamental changes, soccer may ...

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We as people and football supporters homeland. ... Nazmi, whose first brush with a football was under the guidance of his father Mr Mansor at seven years of age and he tributes his success in football to Aminuddin Hussin, a football coach from the Bukit Jalil Sports School (SSBJ). ... However, he shares that luck has played a huge part in his football career. ... On plying his trade in the S-League, Nazmi feels that it is a step forward in his development as a footballer. ... The (football) level in Japan these days is quite high and it is comparable to the leagues in Europe....

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The proper name for soccer is "association football". ... The Greeks and Romans played football and ball kicking games. ... In October in 1863, in London, 11 clubs met and formed the Football Association. ... However, the official name of the sport is association football. The Federation Internationale de Football Association was created in 1904 as the world governing body to coordinate all soccer associations of the world. ...

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Soccer Outside the United States and Canada the game of soccer is called football. ... It is bigger than baseball, American football and basketball combined. ... FIFA (Fédération Intenationale de Football Association), is the international federation which governs association football. FIFA provides the basic laws for world football, on which countless rules are set for competitions. ...

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Soccer in every other part of the world is known as football. ... Soccer is famous from American or Canadian football and from Rugby in that it is primarily played with the feet. ... Football clubs began to be established in 1855, and the Football Association was established in London in 1863. ...

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Lacrosse Speech There are professional hockey players, professional football players, and professional soccer players. ... Lacrosse is a mixture of three sports hockey, football, and soccer. ...

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Theresa Murphy - In a world that screams out, "every man for himself", " take care of yourself first" and even "get your own bag", we find a remarkable young lady that lives by a higher code of ethics. Theresa Murphy's middle name could well be compassion. For, whether it is on the court, in the c...

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Sports are a very important part of the American society. Within sports heroes are made, goals are set and dreams are lived. The media makes all these things possible by creating publicity for the rising stars of today. Within society today, the media has downplayed the role of the woman within spor...

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While parents try to be the biggest role models in their child's lives, sports figures and music stars are just as prominent in their child's life, whether parents approve of this or not. The marketing department at Beats By Dre realized this, combining music and sports to launch a commercial big en...

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Soccer Introduction Soccer is the world's most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is known world wide and is ...

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Soccer Introduction Soccer is the world's most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is known world wide and is ...

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Soccer Introduction Soccer is the world's most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is known world wide and is ...

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Introduction Soccer is the world's most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is one of the most famous internationa...

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We had arrived at our destination and our missionaries, Nicky and Janie, had pointed out our hotel, which was on the left hand side of the van. However, we did not stop. Instead, we went to the site where we would be working for the next four days. We pulled into a small town right outside of Ciudad...

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Introduction Soccer is the worlds most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is one of the most famous internati...

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Soccer Introduction Soccer is the world's most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is known world wide and is ...

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It's a known fact that females are more prone to ACL injuries than males. Females have slightly different anatomy that may put them at a higher risk for ACL injuries. I happened to be one of the casualties of this terrible injury. The anterior cruciate ligament is one of the four ligaments...

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How do I get my endurance up? How do I get my endurance up?A common question and problem,all players should be able to run their hardest for the full game, but how does it happen?Well,Soccer Maniac's Site has the answer.One way you get tired is through cramps,cramps are caused by muscles getting tied and too tight together.So you notice how people with six packs have each muscle visibly lined up.That is the basic idea behind this.To not get a cramp you should do about 30 sit-ups and 20 leg lifts and day so your muscles don't get tied up.The second reason you could get a cramp is y...

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Music has always played a significant part of my life. I played flute and piano throughout my high school years and was a member of the Junior Choir and Orchestra at McNeil High School, but we never know where life will take us. It took me years to realize that playing an instrument wasn't really my...

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I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to sit down with one of my peers, Jack Stone, and discuss what soccer has meant to him throughout his life. In the beginning, I wasn't sure how the interview was going to go because I have never played soccer in an organized fashion so I couldn't get that tr...

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