It doesn't belong to her parents, preschool teacher, dance teacher or soccer coach.
Australia's fine run has done great things for football - or soccer as we call it - in this country.
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The result is a a perfect biomechanical package for endurance running but a disaster for sports that require anaerobic bursts, like sprinting or soccer.
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And they did so because baseball was on its way to being comparable to the National Hockey League or soccer in the U.S. -- irrelevant to sports fans.
"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.
Now, I'm like a NASCAR dad, or a soccer mom, or some kind of voter group.
Of course Mia Hamm was an endorsement darling during the late nineties and early 2000s, with famous commercials like this all-sports duel with Michael Jordan or this soccer-specific spot.
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Every time you buy an imported handmade carpet, an embroidered pair of jeans, a beaded purse, a decorated box or a soccer ball there's a good chance you're acquiring something fashioned by a child.
Every time somebody in Europe or the U.S. buys an imported handmade carpet, an embroidered pair of jeans, a beaded purse, a decorated box or a soccer ball, there's a good chance they're acquiring something fashioned by a child.
And when you're missing a birthday or you're missing a soccer game or when you're missing an anniversary, and those of us back home are able to enjoy it, it's because of you.
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Only an act of government or the national soccer federation could make him change.
The same goes for parents of grade-school-athletes playing travel baseball, softball, soccer or basketball in the summer.
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Pick a sport with low equipment costs like soccer or basketball instead of football or roller hockey.
Some were awarded for having created an earlier version of a modern sport, like China's claim to soccer or Mongolia's claim of field hockey.
At Linwood Park, where Patty sometimes organized athletics for the kids, Connie sat by herself on the grass, unbored, her hands fashioning a clover-flower ring for nobody, and let the minutes stream past her until Joey took his turn at bat or moved the soccer ball down the field and quickened her interest momentarily.
Other than field hockey, Team GB has proven largely awful or been eliminated (soccer).
The league is not affiliated with the Utah Youth Soccer Association or any city or town recreation department.
We get moms who are the heads of their PTA, running the soccer leagues or head of the local non-profit.
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"Sports itself requires athletes to assert themselves against an opponent, such as to obtain possession of a soccer ball or basketball, " Cohn said.
Fathers are encouraged to be involved in their daughters' lives, whether it's coaching their soccer teams or escorting their teenage girls to father-daughter dances.
For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes.
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But whether or not Major League Soccer ever really takes off in the United States, soccer as a game is now part of mainstream American culture.
Truth is, there is probably no quick fix that will vault the U.S. from a second or third-tier soccer nation into the ranks of Spain and Germany.
The game was part of a "rogue league" unaffiliated with the popular Utah Youth Soccer Association or any city or town recreation department, association CEO Andrew Hiatt said.
No sporting event has greater popularity or higher stakes than soccer's World Cup, and they manage to sort that whole clambake out in about a month with a round-robin group stage that shifts to a single-elimination knockout round.
But she said that many people across the country had criticised Fifa's move, saying that football's world governing organisation did not own South Africa's soccer stadiums, soccer balls or vuvuzelas (a South African plastic trumpet used by football fans).
Whether through coverage on Fox Soccer Channel, Gol TV, or ESPN, American consumers have received increased exposure to world soccer.
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He can play soccer, football or cricket, and he has to make a decision.
No matter the weather, the newspaper reported, Martin Richard and his brother played soccer, hockey or baseball in the backyard.
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