Sentences with phrase «millions of soccer fans»

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And while he faces the immense task of converting the U.S.'s 18 million youth soccer players into fans of the professional game, at least he doesn't have to show them what to do with the ball.

Every such avowal is greeted by loud boos from the British press, which holds, along with the entrenched authorities of the sport, that the object of soccer is the entertainment of the millions of fans who make it go.

I love the World Cup because it turns me — and millions of other fair weather futbol Americans — into soccer fans.

The brainchild of Steve Ross (a passionate soccer fan who was also a major executive at Warner Communications) and Ahmet Ertegun and Nesuhi Ertegun (the founders of Atlantic Records), the Cosmos got off to a rocky start in 1971 (no one was especially happy with the playing field at Randall's Island, and some rowdy fans were known to throw broken glass onto the grass), but things changed in 1975 when the world's most celebrated soccer star, the Brazilian champion Pele, signed with the Cosmos for a five - million - dollar payday.

Fronting $ 27 million of the film's $ 32 million budget — and it's all up there on the screen, assuming $ 25 million was spent securing the services of Tim Roth — FIFA is gambling that a direct appeal to soccer fans will counter the press» accusations.

While she would never consider a potential film franchise shouldering a reported $ 40 million budget and a frightfully ardent fan base as anything akin to her art, Taylor - Johnson does manage to use her eye for the slow burn, honed in work like her 2004 video portrait of the soccer star David Beckham sleeping, to great erotic effect.