His 22 million Facebook fans rank fourth among athletes, behind only soccer icons Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Beckham.
Ibee is not the only American soccer player that has made the move to a different national team.
Currently it only works for soccer but could soon come to other sports as well.
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Justin Fashanu is the only significant British soccer player to have come out publicly, doing so in 1990.
People in the favelas will not only enjoy great soccer matches with the presence of their idols but also have great soccer matches.
The only other North American soccer facilities that come close in terms of atmosphere for my money are Red Bull Arena and the Home Depot Center.
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The fledgling league is hoping to strike a chord with casual soccer fans by rescuing some of its teams from monstrous football stadiums--mausoleums to a soccer club playing to less than half capacity much of the time--and into soccer-only venues that bring fans closer to the action.
And there seems to be good reason for Benitez's beleaguered appearance after recent media speculation has seen claims abound that the soccer boss only remains in employment because Liverpool's cash-strapped American owners -- George Gillett and Tom Hicks -- can't afford to sack him from a freshly agreed five-year contract.
Internationally, only ratings for the top soccer leagues in Europe would outperform what we see in the U.S. regarding professional pigskin.
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In his first year with the Los Angeles Galaxy of the often-thought minor Major League Soccer, he only played five games.
As for international soccer itself, only the Netherlands has come close to Spain in recent years, winning 89.7% of its most meaningful games since 2008.
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Overall, the top 25 soccer teams are only modestly profitable.
But back in 1967 soccer in England had only scrapped the maximum wage a few years before.
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Kicking a soccer ball is the only sport that comes close to the globally shared experience of attempting to run fast.
The Gulf countries have only previously been able to attract soccer stars at the twilight of their career, such as World Cup winning Italian defender Fabio Cannavaro and Real Madrid legend Raul.
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Normally this blog only focuses on the intersection of soccer and statistics, but every so often events in other sports compel a break from the purely analytical world of soccer and a diversion into commentary instead.
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In 2003, the school built a 6, 000-seat stadium for soccer, which is the only fall game in town.
"When you put a new team together, as we have, in the context of a rugby or soccer season, we are only six or seven games into the season and you need five to bed down, " the 61-year-old former Bath and Ireland coach explained.
Only an act of government or the national soccer federation could make him change.
So it should only follow that the English population have its soccer, too.
Spain's defeat wasn't the only surprise on another unpredictable night of Olympic soccer.
But the spat has opened up wider questions about Beckham's commitment to soccer in America and Major League Soccer's ability to not only lure but keep big name players.
Elsewhere in sports only Manchester United, the U.K. soccer team, carries a billion-dollar price tag.
Soccer games were postponed, restaurants served only takeout orders, and Sunday Mass -- which usually draws millions of worshippers -- was canceled.
The world's soccer industry seems, at best, only half way there.
So it goes in English soccer's second tier, where only two pre-season promotion favorites in the past decade have been promoted at the end of the season.
Even ordinary Chinese sensed there was something lacking with the entire national soccer program when the Chinese soccer team qualified for its one and only World Cup appearance in 2002, and then failed to score one goal in three games.
This is instead a teachable moment not only for football, but also for its distant cousin, soccer.
Not helping matters: The Scottish Sunday Herald newspaper today published a picture of the soccer star on its entire front page, with only a thin black line covering the eyes.
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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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