The road to the first football (soccer) World Cup in Africa has been long for host South Africa, filled with frustrations and challenges.

对于南非而言，第一次在非洲举办世界杯足球赛的道路是漫长的，充满了挫折与挑战。

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The most popular sport in Albania is football (soccer) and the most followed sports event is said to be the World Cup (although Albania has never qualified for the finals).

阿尔巴尼亚最流行的运动是足球，最多观看的运动项目是世界杯(尽管阿尔巴尼亚从来没能获得入决赛阶段的资格)。

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A POPULAR debate among football obsessives concerns whether barcelona-barca to its fans-is the best club soccer team the world has ever seen.

目前在球迷中流行着一种争论：巴塞罗那俱乐部(该队球迷称之为“巴萨”)是有史以来最好的足球俱乐部吗？

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FIFA,the international football federation, says the United States has twenty-four million soccer players-second in the world.

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Football,called soccer in the United States, is probably the world's most popular sport.

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But he says Mr.Zuma is also here to raise the profile of the World Cup football (soccer) championship, which kicks off this June in South Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

World Soccer writer Mark Gleeson, an expert on African football, believes that the policy of hiring European coaches rather than homegrown ones is reflective of a trend of football as a whole and not unique to Africa.

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Representing the Asia-Pacific region of FIFA, the world soccer association, under the auspices of the Asian Football Confederation (with 46 member nations) at the 2010 South Africa World Cup venue are four teams: Australia, South Korea, North Korea and Japan.

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After some trial and error in pre-season tours between 2005-2010, the 2011 World Football Challenge is slated to be the biggest soccer event of the summer.

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