Football coach Bill Adams, agrees with the sentiment and founded the Super Soccer Academy in New Delhi in 1998 as a way to combat what he saw as poor standards of youth coaching.

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The guys who are busy buying up Miami have had a love affair with the tropical Latino city for decades now, live a little farther south, and are known for supermodel women, super soccer stars, samba, and the biggest jungle on the planet.

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Mr Murdoch's attempt to set up a pan-European pay TV channel linked to the launch of a new European Soccer Super League, fell apart two years ago after he failed to agree terms with Mr Berlusconi.

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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.

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The probe has implicated a swath of Turkey's top clubs, but Fenerbahce, the most decorated soccer team in Turkish history and Turkey's 2011 Super League title winners, has attracted more charges than any other club.

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In addition to a full program of 38 Premier League games, the club also contested the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, the UEFA Super Cup in Monaco and advanced to the semifinals of both English soccer's FA Cup and Football League Cup.

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