"Sometimes the soccer player side takes over, so you have to be careful, " said Alexandre Robineau, a 33-year-old seminarian from France.
And David Beckham was probably never the best, in fact, definitely never the best soccer player in the world.
The hippie soccer player from 21st century Seattle could have been the Renaissance artist's model.
One role model: David Beckham, the tough soccer player who isn't afraid to wear sarongs and nail polish (off the field).
Giggs, who plays for Manchester United and is known for his squeaky-clean reputation, was the sole soccer player recently mentioned in a stream of six tweets about celebrities who had taken out gagging orders on the press, by an anonymous Twitter account holder.
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Since then the French paper Le Parisien (followed by the British press, including The Times and Daily Mail) has taken that idea one step further and proclaimed as truth that Beckham, the highest paid soccer player in the world, is scamming the French government out of his fair share of taxes.
One of his most high-profile jobs to date was for Carly Cole, the wife of the English soccer player Joe, who commissioned Mr. Pellizzoni to work on her townhouse in Chelsea, an upscale West London neighborhood.
Ibee is not the only American soccer player that has made the move to a different national team.
In 1981, he became the first black soccer player to command a 1 million pound transfer fee (from Norwich City to Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League).
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In the extremely inexact science of deciding a soccer player's value, the one thing that most Premier League teams can agree is that they want players with Premier League experience.
They are usually erected not by criminals but by desperate locals appealing through the news cameras for road repairs, a water supply, or, on one occasion, the inclusion of a well-liked player in the national soccer team.
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.
Justin Fashanu is the only significant British soccer player to have come out publicly, doing so in 1990.
Hamm also shined as the most marketable female soccer player ever generating millions of dollars from endorsement partners.
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Arsene Wenger had called it "unacceptable behavior" -- but Chelsea counterpart Jose Mourinho made a novel defense for his agent provocateur Costa, likening the soccer star to a rugby player after yet another victory over Arsenal.
In the 21 seasons since he won his first Premier League trophy, title in 1992-93, English soccer's Player of the league's top goal scorer Year award went to a Manchester United player on just four eight occasions.
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He ranks as the second-highest-earning soccer player behind Barcelona's Ronaldinho on our most recent list of Most Valuable Soccer Teams.
Her 158 international goals are the most by any player, male or female, in the history of soccer.
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All of which raises a rather awkward question about someone who may be the most accomplished player to dabble in U.S. professional soccer since Pele: Is he actually worth the money?
The boldest move was to sign a Chinese soccer player, Chen Zhi Zhao to be part of its professional squad.
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Some types of multitasking come naturally: a soccer player has to run down the field and assess the situation at the same time, adjusting his or her path as necessary.
McCabe was sickened when he heard the news that Ricardo Portillo had died Saturday, a week after the youth soccer referee in Utah had been punched in the head by a 17-year-old player angry over a yellow card.
My favorite sports story is the youth soccer coach who offered a dollar to each player who scored a goal.
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"That is inevitable, but in the end he is a good player and a soccer icon, and I think he'll help his team, " said Gulati.
The overall money spent on soccer transfers in 2012 was down 10% compared to the previous year, but the involvement of club and player intermediaries is increasing, according to a new report by FIFA, soccer's world governing body.
English soccer's most madcap player is leaving the Premier League.
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