This is what happens in a low-scoring game, and this is what ultimately makes soccer so difficult to analyze empirically.
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If this is considered big business, then European soccer is a mega-business capable of generating more revenue in less than one month of play than FIFA does every quadrennial.
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This is the Miami Heat of soccer. (Laughter.) And together, they represent one of the most talented lineups that MLS has ever seen.
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This is particularly true in American soccer, where many casual fans are still learning the nuances of the game, and at the same time the next generation of die-hard fans are hungry for more in-depth analysis.
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This is going to be difficult for soccer traditionalists to swallow, but here goes.
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The latest example of this is the Africa Cup of Nations, Africa's continental soccer tournament, which is being held in Equatorial Guinea (population 668, 000 roughly the size of Memphis, Tenn.) and Gabon (1.6 million).
Is there a downside to this soccer extravaganza?
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Overall, this is certainly a place designed to get attention for its progressive thinking, and Major League Soccer is hoping that it catches some major attention.
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Yet when the country is distracted by the soccer World Cup this summer, a switch of prime ministers cannot be ruled out.
The bombings raise security concerns ahead of the America Cup soccer tournament that Colombia is to host this summer.
As Italian soccer enters its midseason break this week, Udinese is third in the standings, just two points behind Milan and Juventus, and remains on course to qualify for the Champions League for a second straight season.
The 2006 World Cup is expected to bring millions of soccer fans to Germany this summer and thousands of sex workers from Eastern Europe hoping to cash in on the event.
And this is not a great moment for a team that was once king of soccer.
Sure, this demonstrated something more dedicated fans of soccer already knew, but it is highly explanatory to the more casual fan represented by the average ESPN viewer.
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This is an excellent question, and as someone who tore her ACL playing soccer as a teenager and has had problems with her knee ever since, knee injury prevention is a topic that is very important to me.
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Maybe this is one of those cases of events in the real world intruding into the soccer sphere.
Las Vegas soccer fans head here to watch live games, as this British pub is open 24 hours a day.
The fear is that this will end up like Zeman-coached teams of the past: pretty soccer, plenty of entertainment and a great big goose egg when it comes to results.
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This is instead a teachable moment not only for football, but also for its distant cousin, soccer.
The idea this time around is to stick to the basics--sharing venues and costs with Major League Soccer men's teams and developing stars and building an identity more gradually.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the commercial aviation industry, where two fast-growing airlines are using soccer to establish a strong consumer base.
This failure to continue the discussion with tangible real-time examples of actual analytics tools available today is where the soccer panel has failed its attendees for the last several years.
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The New York Times this past weekend included an article describing the World Cup soccer jerseys as an example of a green product that is not from a green company (Nike).
The only big film opening this weekend (in 2, 700 theaters) is Playing For Keeps which stars Gerard Butler as a washed up soccer player who returns home to try and become a man.
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This sports cam is intended to be more stationary than its predecessor -- mounted on a still spot to capture soccer games (don't let them catch you calling it that here in Europe) and to help you critique your golf swing.
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Instead, especially in Saudi Arabia, attendance at live matches is falling, soccer stadiums are in disrepair, and the national team won only one game in this year's Gulf Cup a debacle that led to the ouster of Dutch legend Frank Riijkaard as the Saudi team coach.
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This is also because, unlike American sports where drafts and salary caps tend to level the playing field over time, soccer teams in the same league can have radically different resources, sometimes by a factor of 10 or more.
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