Sentences with phrase «football culture in»

The former Barcelona legend was actually very high on the list of potential replacements for Rijkaard after the 2007/08 season, but instead found himself at Barcelona B. Afterwards he had a stint at Roma which was short - lived and disappointing — he seemed lost, trying to implement somewhat of the Barca system with non-Barca players, and the non-Barca football culture in the club or city of Rome.

Get a behind the scenes look at the growing football culture in China and see how the players are handling this new challenge.

Texas has the best - developed high school football culture in the country.

«I like the football culture in England and Arsenal just had something in my view that the other teams didn't have.

Not exact matches

Mark Greene finds football is filling a terrible vacuum in the lives of millions in the UK today... «If you want to understand a culture look at what that culture most talks about.

Mark Greene finds football is filling a terrible vacuum in the lives of millions in the UK today... «If you want to understand a culture look at what that... More

And our culture most talks about, writes about, and most broadcasts about sport in general, and football in particular.

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

Does religion get a free pass in our culture and on our football fields?

It's a part of the culture in the same way that football, grits, guns, humidity, and religion are a part of the culture.

And it's SPOT ON in its depiction of the idiosyncrasies found in Southern football culture.

I went to a Christian university that had a course titled «World Changers» and a «World - Changer Hall of Fame» which recognized Christian leaders who had an influence in mainstream culture — football coaches, authors, artists.

But in a sports - crazed culture — where baseball, basketball and football make up hours of primetime TV each night — why not expand your athletic horizons?

German American dual national with a keen interest in politics, business gossip and culture (meaning Football).

In our Tongan Culture, we are so closely connected by a mutual relative / friend as this is what a high school football game feels like to me — we all come together to support our kids and I enjoy every minute of it.

We're all the true fans had knighted him as Sir in football world, you as moaner plastic fan might ignore our culture of pure fans.

In the current, win - at - all - costs, poach - your - rivals - of - talent culture of football, it's possible that we'll never see a long - tenured manager like Arsene in the league agaiIn the current, win - at - all - costs, poach - your - rivals - of - talent culture of football, it's possible that we'll never see a long - tenured manager like Arsene in the league agaiin the league again.

«Sports define people in a given culture,» notes Chris B. Brown of the wonderful website Smart Football.

This, in turn, has led to another flare up of the rumbling culture war between the analytics insurgents, who believe all human endeavour can and must be reduced to a single equation, and the traditionalist old guard, who believe the only way to understand a footballer is by following him around for weeks at a time and watching everything he does, meticulously observing his breakfast habits, which way «round he arranges his toilet paper, and whether he throws chewing gum into a bin or just drops it in the street.

Arsene Wenger came in with a concept and footballing culture that was ahead of his time and not embraced by all, as lets face it, a lot of footballers at that time were party boys and just living the dream with their ridiculously high wages, but though there were legends who disagreed, their time had come to an end, total fitness and diet along with football science was about to take over.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

Real Madrid and Spain's legendary goalkeeper Iker Casillas has given an exclusive interview with journalist Inaki Gabilondo, in which he's described how he'd like to eventually move abroad and experience a different footballing culture, Football Espana reports.

@Fatboy Gooner The Ozil deal was far less that 40 plus million as has been exposed on football leaks it was more in the region of 32 million with verious clauses that enable REM to take a percentage of any profit we make on selling Ozil and I would assume there are similar attachments with the Sanchez deal, even our record signings are clouded in smoke and mirrors so let not run away with the idea that its all SWengers fault, if your employer is on your back and pushing for results then you perform at a higher rate and push harder where as Wenger has no push from above so does nt go out of his way Kroenke does nt have the culture around him to win trophies cos thats not his aim and that filters down to the grass roots at Arsenal and shows in Wengers transfer policy and in the players performance.

There is not one of them who understand football, or the culture around it, all they are interested in is the bottom line, and while this shows a positive figure, they are rubbing their greedy little hands together.

Yet even in these unusual circumstances, with the club in straitened financial circumstances and in the need of serious repairs to its status, Allardyce has moved to pre-empt those that might be discomfited by his methods, assuring the fans that he will offer more cultured football, at least at home.

For as long as most football fans can remember, the Super Bowl has been the preeminent sporting event in American culture.

Wenger still dream of tiki - taka like Barcelona yet we don't have the culture in England to play that kind of football

They think they can just throw money at every1 and make their league the best in the world...... Football is a culture and financial gain is just an add on...... They are trying to buy a culture that is priceless

Sun Devil Football's existing recruiting infrastructure will be upgraded through additional staff support and evaluation resources, by instilling a culture of accountability at all levels, and building long - term relationships in communities across the country to help ensure recruiting quality and consistency.

Having never played outside of South America it would take a while for the player to deal with the culture change and also the vast difference in styles of football.

There was a drinking culture rife in English football prior to Wenger joining.

In regards to the assistants, at all levels of football, the head coach is really the culture setter and game planning epicenter.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Even without another football game to further overcrowd the city, which considers itself a cultural oasis in a vast wilderness of oil workers» helmets and Levi's, the downtown area is declared off limits by every sane person, cultured or not.

Hornby found himself dropped into a club and a wider culture that had existed for years; Agovino, whose football consciousness awakens in New York, 1982, has no such current to jump into.

In a culture where Cordova teachers used to fear losing half the football team by Homecoming due to failing grades, it's projected they won't lose one player this entire season.

Maryland can lure an AD who can build a winning football program here, given that a true football culture hasn't existed in College Park since the Tatum era.

Second, immersion in a football culture is likely best for Johnny.

Wenger's philosophy and understanding of world football and culture gave him the upper hand in fitness and psychology that allowed him to gain some advantages in his early seasons and which culminated in the perfect unbeaten season of 2003 - 2004

Don't forget that Arsenal FC now have in place a culture of stability in the area of football management at the club which they won't like to see distorted.

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It started around may 2006, with the aim of carrying fans along with latest happenings in politics, culture, finance and history of football..

Big balls media created this site in 2012 to talk more about football traditions and culture.

For many refugee players, football helped them adjust to a new country and culture and as they and their families rebuilt their lives in safety.

Beyond anxieties over deselection (or the threat of it), footballers are often at risk of culture shock, whether in the literal sense of having to acclimatise to a new and unfamiliar country or in the more metaphorical sense of having to adapt quickly to life at a new club or a new level: a Championship player moving to an established Premier League side, a youth - team star breaking into the first - team squad, a veteran making his way down the leagues.

He also talks of the «inconsistent cultures in football clubs, set by their owners» — something that the appointment of professional sporting directors (a role for which he is a keen advocate), in tandem with the legislation proposed by Carlisle, might help to rectify.

There seem to be no end in sight for the culture of footballers inhaling nitrous oxide as Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny emerged as the latest member of the trend.

I read somewhere that some said we're not clinical enough that is a culture at wenger has become too friendly with the players at Arsenal the players position are seldom under treat you play poorly for two weeks and you still make the team you missed a look at almunia retrospectively don't understand that hey if i get a chance to score i must take it the first time cause i may not get a next one and you want the players to be clinical it must start from the top good work or none As was said on a website to day Arsenal should parade through the streets of london in an open top Bus at the end of the season the accountants of the club and i will through wenger in there too cause to most of you he can do no wrong I love this club with all my heart and i can support no other club in football but to see for 5 seasons we can't show any vast improvement and keep making the same mistakes every year is hard to swallow it makes me sick but as wenger says judge me at the end i wonder what end he meant the end of the season or the end of his contract GO ARSENAL......................

But i must complement wenger he has changed the culture of the club and given the team a spirit But does that give him the right to neglect the needs of the fans for some trophies Arsenal tickets are the most expensive yet the fans settle for good football as opposed to winning football as mentioned on this blog i don't get it But wenger knows once you keep the share holders happy then your in business It puzzles me that a modern manager can go six (6) yes six seasons without a single trophy and some people can come here making bone dry excuses, the ambition of the club has dropped wenger can coach at no other top club in Europe and not win a trophy he would be shown the door.

Nobody is going to be happy with five defeats in ten Premier League games and nothing highlights the difference in football supporting cultures than poor form.