Sentences with phrase «than the world cup»

Since STRATFOR is more of an expert on geopolitics than the World Cup, I'm including an article from them on the current Gen. McChrystal shake - up.

Of course, that will help the popularity of soccer more than the World Cup did.

Surely it would be bigger than world Cup?

It's harder to win than the world cup actually since there is no weak team, so no margin for error.

Yeh they lost cause no penalty calls but seriously how can a team like Chelsea with so much class players being 2 nil up at home lose 4 2 imagine if that was Arsenal we would all pull the rope on Wenger Would love to hear if they have a forum like this to hear there comments It's what makes this competition the best even I would say than the World Cup is second to FA just for the Drama that unfolds England has created a beauty in this Comp I get the photo out every year to see the Copper on the White horse at the first Wembly final CB

But who better to learn from than the World Cup winning German.

Is it, perhaps, more important to win the European Cup than the World Cup?

If a 20 - year - old earns more than your World Cup winning superstars, it might create a few troubles in the dressing room.

It is even bigger than the World Cup because the teams in it are at a higher level than national teams, who can't buy the best players.»

Not exact matches

Nike shares fell despite reporting better than expected earnings and a surge in global sales due to this summer's World Cup tournament in Brazil.

More than 3 billion people watched Germany beat Argentina in the final of the 2014 World Cup, run by FIFA, the international football body.

According to the social network, more than 350 million people talked about soccer's World Cup during that event last year.

For Vonn, who has four World Cup championships and raced in more World Cup events than any other American in addition to her Olympic medals, monetary success came in the form of lucrative endorsements.

And this summer's FIFA World Cup — a first for Africa — generated more than $ 3 billion in revenue for South Africa, the host country.

That's never been more true than this weekend, when my feed was overwhelmed with World Cup - related tweets.

There are ways to filter out unwanted topics, but it's not simple and it can be more trouble than it's worth, especially when something as broad and all - encompassing as the World Cup comes along.

That was down slightly from 24 percent in the previous three months, when the World Cup helped drive traffic to the service, and remains well behind Facebook's Inc's community of more than a billion people.

So there's really no better place to catch the 2011 World Cup of Rugby, which runs in various stadiums across New Zealand from Sept. 9 to Oct. 23, than the country's capital city.

There's more than bragging rights at stake — according to Goldman Sachs, World Cup - winning nations experience an (admittedly temporary) economic boost in the aftermath of their triumph.

National credit cards, which can only be processed in Brazilian Reais (BRL), are more common in Brazil than international credit cards — but during the World Cup, Airbnb only accepted the latter.

The decrease in ad revenue at ESPN was due to a difficult comparison with the Men's World Cup in Q3 last year, which more than offset the benefit of an additional game of the NBA Finals in Q3 this year.

If those people were as engaged as online World Cup viewers — and I'd venture that, on average, they were less engaged than people watching the most popular sporting event on the planet — those 10.7 million digital views would translate into an average - minute TV audience of 28,563 persons.

The cobwebs vaporized as the caller assured me no student interns were injured by the bomb blast that killed more than 100 spectators two hours earlier at a venue projecting the 2010 World Cup finals onto a big screen in Kampala.

Tea & Coffee World Cup is very pleased to announce Julian Dixon, vice president at INTL FCStone will be giving a presentation in the conference at this year's Tea & Coffee World Cup on the topic «Is It Possible to Hedge Less Than One Contract?».

A third - generation company, illy is available today in more than 145 countries and in more than 100,000 of the world's finest restaurants, cafés, hotels and retail outlets that serve more than seven million cups of illy per day.

Thankfully, it more than followed through — Kallari hit this chocolate out of the ballpark (okay, so I know many people are currently experiencing World Cup fever — what's an equivalent soccer term?).

How in the world do you think less than a cup of flour will yield 12 desserts?

Across the world, more than 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed each year (Illy 2002).

One of the biggest sporting events on the global calendar is the FIFA World Cup, and the celebration of football (aka soccer) is less than three months away.

In many places in the world, a cup holds more than a US cup does.

That cost Arsenal around # 35 million, still cheaper than the # 50 ish million Stones cost city and Mustafi has won the world cup with Germany.

It's less than 12 months before the World Cup kicks off, we hold the key to his national team call up.

After all, what better prize is there than winning the World Cup for your country?

We are already a bit week in our ability to attract the world's best players so not being able to offer CL football IMO is a greater handicap than being able to tell an Aubamaynag we won the FA cup.

These five stars, according to football stats aggregator WhoScored, played more passes than anybody else in the World Cup just gone.

In 1994, when I was president, it was a great thrill to sit in the stands at Soldier Field in Chicago with more than 67,000 enthusiastic fans, including German chancellor Helmut Kohl and the president of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sànchez de Lozada, in the opening game of the World Cup.

Although Toni Kroos plays a little deeper than Cesc Fabregas, he should be aiming for more in the way of assists and goals after the way he has played so superbly for Bayern Munich and Germany in recent times, while James Rodriguez looks to be suffering something of a hangover after his tremendous World Cup with Colombia.

When you add the fact it's a World Cup year and some players are more concerned about not getting injured than working their socks off, this is what you get.

As previously reported by SI.com, the Premier League's big six, all four Champions League semifinalists, two Europa League semifinalists and a slew of other European powers are involved in the tournament, which takes place during the preseasons for all participating clubs and will kick off less than a week after the conclusion of the 2018 World Cup.

These five superstars, who competed in at least three matches, completed more successful dribbles per match than anyone else at the World Cup this summer, courtesy of WhoScored.

Who knows, he could do better than three FA cup wins in the last four years, three community shield wins in the last four years, twenty years of champions league participation and overseeing the building of a magnificient stadium that has propelled us into the top five clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is and the best their ever will be and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.

Nothing to be gained, it changes fa, it's all just one meaningless negative sound bite versus another, so really has little value to anyone other than those who get of on telling us what's wrong and how they'd have won us the World Cup.

These ten players have played more key passes in the opening two matches of the World Cup than any other so far...

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If we finish 7th, I.e. behind Burnley, as seems more than likely now, we then have to go into the Europa League qualifiers which start 11 days after the end of the World Cup.

The 22 year - old is an exciting player for a full back, and waltzed past players at will during the 2010 World Cup for Portugal, but the fact that Liverpool play a more pressing game these days than under Roy Hodgson means that they are likely to have more of the ball as well as play a higher line.

Unfortunately when I think of Joel all I can think of is his 1 decent game at the world cup, other than that all that is coming to my mind is hard working, hard working and hard working.

The World Cup winners are without a number of key players however, and an Irish side high on confidence after consecutive victories could prove more of a challenge than many expect.

Or perhaps it was that period of 9 years from 1986 when we won the league twice, the fa cup once, the league cup twice and the cup winners cup, but played the most boring football the world has ever seen, more often than not finishing outside the top 6

The 83 spectators crushed to death at Mateo Flores Stadium in Guatemala City on the night of Oct. 16, before a Costa Rica - Guatemala World Cup qualifying match, were the latest casualties in a series of stampedes that have left more than 300 soccer fans dead in the last 10 years.