He came to Belgrade to watch soccer matches and to dine out at a well-known restaurant.
My kids wear orange shirts and black shorts when they suit up for soccer matches.
They've rented out a second stadium, which is where soccer matches are held in the capital.
Days ago, European sporting authorities said they began investigating a global crime syndicate alleged to have fixed soccer matches.
Mr. Rao notes that Brazilians like to use social media while watching TV, in particular soccer matches and soap operas.
He referees junior-league soccer matches and says he has learned valuable lessons for running the company from his love of soccer.
People in the favelas will not only enjoy great soccer matches with the presence of their idols but also have great soccer matches.
According to The New York Times, Fox Sports 1 plans to carry NASCAR races, MLB games, college basketball and football games, soccer matches, and UFC fights.
The Southeast Asian country's police force has been questioning the alleged leader of the syndicate thought by European investigators to have fixed hundreds of soccer matches world-wide.
European investigators say they believe Mr. Tan is the leader and financier of a crime syndicate allegedly responsible for fixing hundreds of soccer matches around the globe.
New Yankee Stadium, which opened in 2009, hosted its first two soccer matches last summer and is the site of an exhibition Saturday between Manchester City and Chelsea.
Some ends up in whimsical graffiti marking World Cup soccer matches, New York Giants Super Bowl victories and other less-weighty matters that have gone on since construction began six years ago.
The Chinese Super League games dominate CCTV-5 (Sports Channel) and Chinese TV channels also show an extensive selection of top foreign soccer matches, including the UEFA Championship League, English Premier League, Italian Serie A and German Bundesliga.
The hype, after all, is warranted - the steak really is the best in the world, dance halls fill with tango students every night of the week, the soccer matches are intense and passionate, the wine is affordable and delicious.
Singapore's investigation of the officials comes weeks after the city-state's police said they were boosting efforts to tackle soccer corruption, following allegations from international investigators that a global crime ring was fixing hundreds of soccer matches out of its base in Singapore.
We do have one exception to this, to football (what Americans would call soccer) matches.
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They seek to win, or at least not to lose, and so prefer to keep the conflict open, much as if they were involved in a soccer league, with matches to be won or lost each year by fair means or foul.
By expanding the tournament to include as many as four teams from the strongest nations and by introducing a group stage that guarantees each competing club at least six matches, European soccer officials have created a self-perpetuating system that plays to the strengths of historical powers.
The EU's political leaders (but not its soccer teams) should also boycott matches in Ukraine during the Euro 2012 football championships, which it is jointly hosting with Poland.
MADRID In the week that followed the stunning first legs of the Champions League semifinals, two matches that saw the soccer royalty of Real Madrid and Barcelona thoroughly humbled by German opposition, the chatter in the soccer world turned to figuring out Germany's secret.
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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Investigators say Mr. Tan leads the syndicate while Mr. Suljic, a former soccer player, allegedly helped the group fix matches in Italy, the warrant said.
Investigators believe Mr. Tan leads the syndicate while Mr. Suljic, a former soccer player, allegedly helped the group fix matches in Italy, the warrant said.
But three-and-a-half decades after penalty kicks became a staple of elimination matches at the most important international soccer tournaments, there's a growing group of penalty kick devotees (we admit, we are among them) who view shootouts as the sport's essence.
Bramley, one of the founder members in 1985, dropped out of the league in November after being refused permission to play their matches at the home of non-League soccer club Farsley Celtic and were replaced in the Northern Ford Premiership (NFP) by the reformed Sheffield Eagles.
The final is scheduled to take place at the refurbished Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, which will also host other matches at Ellis Park.
Major League Soccer's 17th season features 19 clubs each playing 34 regular-season matches.
Zach Slaton (ZS): The Soccer Power Index (SPI) is one of the few comprehensive predictive public models for matches that then translates match results into overall competition results.
But it was revealed by Mr. Wainwright that one of the Champions League matches had been played in England, which is one of Europe's biggest soccer markets.
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