Sentences with phrase «us soccer history»

Lloyd may be in the twilight of her career, but her goal in the final of last year's World Cup was the greatest goal in American soccer history.

Solo, the most dominant goalkeeper in women's soccer history, has won one World Cup title and two Olympic gold medals in a U.S. career that has included 202 national team appearances and 102 clean sheets.

A defender for the U.S. in two World Cups, he scored the most important goal in American soccer history, a 25 - yard blast that defeated Trinidad and Tobago 1 - 0 and sent the U.S. to the Cup in 1990.

He is among the most important figures in soccer history.

CARY, N.C. — Six days after the worst defeat in U.S. soccer history, the next chapter already was being written half a world away in New Delhi, India, where the Americans progressed to the quarterfinals of the FIFA U-17 World Cup with a 5 - 0 rout of Paraguay.

In all of European soccer history.

You'll be rewarded with the opportunity to play out famous goals from recent soccer history.

One was probably the most brilliant goal in soccer history according to the rules of the game — he dribbled past six of England's players — and the other was scored outside of the rules of the game, with his hand.

Abby Wambach, the greatest goal scorer in US soccer history, scored in a 1 - 0 win.

Not exact matches

If you look at entrepreneur Tony Fernandes» career history, you'll find an impressive job catalog from the likes of Virgin Communications, Warner Music and a U.K. soccer club.

I just interviewed Abby Wambach, who is the highest goal - scoring female soccer player in history — when she was five years old, she scored 27 goals in her first three games.

Shall we compare waterboarding and a return to three squares and the soccer match at Guantanamo to types of tortures and deaths that Christians are treated to daily throughout the world and throughout history?

A remembrance ceremony in the victims» honor is happening at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium in Medellin, Colombia, where the soccer team planned to play Colombia's Atletico Nacional team which would have been the biggest game in the team's history to date.

In that case, the history of the earth could be represented by a time line that stretches the length of a soccer field (1).

The year - long campaign which champions soccer's rich history in the U.S., while raising a Heineken ® to its exciting future, features a series of new commercials that highlight the energy and passion surrounding the sport in America, as well as contests and interactive engagements for Heineken ®'s partnership of the UEFA Champions League (UCL), and Major League Soccer (MLS).

And as a fan I can't think of a better suited match with the game in the U.S. than Heineken, as they already have a rich history with soccer around the world, and we're proud to be part of it.»

In the Battle of Los Angeles over the city's and region's history, both on and off the soccer field, there is no contest: the Galaxy and their Carson - centered home are clear champions.

English soccer has offered us an opportunity to nerd out, to discover a history we haven't had memorized since we were seven years old.

As in, the hours beginning last Thursday night, which was couch - potato nirvana: NBA Finals Game 7 (highest rating since 1998), Team USA's stirring comeback against Slovenia (most TV households for a soccer match in U.S. history) and, for a snack, the U.S. Open and its ocean views.

It is not a pleasant thought, this possibility that the most brilliant and lucrative career in the history of soccer might be cut short; it is a thought that has produced a budding persecution complex in Pelé.

The Italian soccer league's recent history is marred by match - fixing scandals, financial insolvency, and fan racism and violence.

Head coach Paul Rose, who began coaching in 1979, is the winningest high school soccer coach in California history and has guided the Marauders to nine section championships and a Top - 25 national ranking every year since 1996.

Betting in soccer in not anything new, it has a history that dates as far back as 1923.

Our situation is different, our history is unique, and how we express soccer is decidedly North American.

After this Camilo known as a worst soccer player in the football history.

Many reasons to despise Ashley Cole to call worst soccer player in football history.

Atlanta United's 72,035 tickets sold and distributed for Sunday's 3 - 1 win against D.C. United was not just the biggest crowd in MLS history, it was the fourth largest in world soccer for last week's games.

It is told that Messi is the best soccer player in history ever.

She loves to travel and cook, loves art and art history, soccer, photography and hiking.

Considered one of the best players in the history of soccer, he's the top scorer in the history of Argentina, a champion player for Barcelona, and the only player to win five FIFA Ballon d'Or awards.

Within the topic you can cover, for instance, geography (countries playing in the world cup / cats around the world), history (origins of soccer / cats in ancient times)-- and whatever else appeals!

This was the boys soccer team's first Section VI title in school history.

Sullivan was raped in 1998 by her history professor and soccer coach at the Emma Willard School.

Sunday's game had a whopping 25.4 million viewers, making it the most watched soccer event in U.S. history.

The history of the sport of soccer dates back centuries and spans the globe.

In the history of soccer, there have been some truly stupendous goals scored.

On Wednesday, Kourtney Kardashian and boyfriend Younes Bendjima packed on the PDA at the Parc des Princes in Paris where Bendjima's favorite soccer team A long history of Asian dating service started in 2000.

Critics Consensus: You don't have to be a soccer fan to enjoy this stylish, breezy slice of 1970s sports history.

This slice of British football sports history won't have any cultural resonance for us Yanks, who still insist on calling the sport soccer, but the portrait of ambition and hubris run amuck resonates in any arena, even if the script boils down his motivation for jumping ship and taking over the league bruisers and longtime champions Leeds United (the «Damned» of the title) to a grudge against their longtime coach and the sport's most successful manager Don Revie (Colm Meaney).

Great for a Friday activity to show kids that everything has a history, even the sport of soccer (football)!

Winner's compelling meditation on English soccer explores the interplay between sport, history, and national character.

This holiday season's essential sports volumes offer a feast of biography and history, ranging from the fairways of the PGA and the ice palaces of the NHL to the fields of pro football, international soccer and beyond.

When he explains how an IRA man escaped from the prison during a soccer game, or another dodged the guards by coating himself with butter then hiding in the sewer, he's quick to say that he's not glorifying the escapees — just giving us some of the prison's history.

There are topics of general interest such as English and Scottish soccer, premiership football teams, patriotic songs, Christmas carols, the monarchs of Britain and the history of British towns and cities and others more specific such as stately homes, churches and cathedrals, hymns and Bible Study.

Packed with history and culture, you'll eat your meals at strange hours, watch the greatest soccer teams play, take part in spectacular festivals and enjoy some of Europe's greatest cities and beaches.

Chicago About Blog Founded in 2007, Pitch Invasion is a North American - based web publication about global soccer culture and history.

And that makes it not only a fun and addicting game about cars playing soccer, but also an extremely important game in terms of video game history.

The best example I can think of comes from soccer — the quarterfinals between Argentina and England in ’86 when Maradona scored two of the most famous goals in history.

Then on Sunday, July 5th, the U.S. soccer team won the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup against Japan by the score of 5 - 2, which was the highest - scoring final game in the history of the FIFA Women's World Cup.

The practice's recent representations include: (i) CONMEBOL in connection with U.S. criminal investigations and prosecutions into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world; (ii) the Special Committee of Banco BTG Pactual S.A. («BTG Pactual») in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its former CEO and other bank executives, in which we found no basis to support the allegations against the Bank and its employees; (iii) two of the largest construction companies in Brazil in potential civil and criminal investigations and litigation involving the Petrobras bribery scandal (Lava Jato), the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history, involving allegations of over $ 2.5 billion in bribes and kickbacks; (iv) the Government of Brazil in a corruption matter involving former senior government officials and multiple jurisdictions; (v) the General Manager of one of the largest energy companies in Central America in connection with allegations of bribery in Guatemala; (vi) a Mexican high - ranking executive for Wal - Mart Stores, Inc. in connection with DOJ and SEC FCPA investigations against Wal - Mart; (vii) a large Argentinean oil company and its owner, one of Argentina's wealthiest individuals, in connection with high - profile DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged FCPA violations to secure an extension of oil rights in an Argentinean oilfield; (viii) the United State's largest chemical and industrial products companies in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its Mexican subsidiary; (ix) the Rosenthal family, one of the most prominent families in Central America, in a number of related criminal matters; and (x) a senior executive of one of Venezuela's largest engineering companies in DOJ investigations into corruption and money laundering involving PdVSA.