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10 Best Female Soccer Player Autobiographies
Women have made incredible strides on getting closer to equality in the last few decades, and it feels empowering to see happening, but it's not easy to be a female athlete. While things are undoubtedly getting better, we're still not a point where the little girl who wants to be an Olympic athlete gets the same amount of attention as the little boy who has the same dream gets. If we look at a later stage of an athlete's early life, women's sports often don't get the same amount of attention as men's sports do.
By Trish Gilmore7 years ago in Cleats
Archibald Leitch
For many of you who didn’t know, football, i.e. soccer, has been around for the best part of 200 years. This was when the modern football rules and codes, that we would associate with today's game, were established. Oh and FYI my American friends, do not let those pesky English wisecrackers get on your back about the word soccer! Soccer is a slang word for Association Football, that originates in the U.K., and is similar to the word fiver, which used to mean a five-pound note.
By Jack Harris7 years ago in Cleats
Oh, Danny Boy, the Racism Is Calling
Full disclosure: I am an Arsenal fan. For those who are not into football (soccer to our American cousins), even though the game here is played predominantly with the feet! Arsenal football club and team, like any team in sport worldwide, has a nemesis. That nemesis is their near neighbours, Tottenham Hotspurs.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Cleats
U.S. Women's Soccer Team Documents Equal Pay Struggles In New Book | Reigning Women
You know the team, you know the story, you even know their names. Names like Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan are no foreigners to the American household.
By Reigning Women7 years ago in Cleats
The 10 Best Sites to Buy or Sell Used Cleats
I had an interesting soccer career to say the least, but let me fill you in on some of the highlights. As you may already know, my first team—the "Red Team"—went an entire season without scoring a goal* (that lonely asterisk being an own goal). Goals would be netted in later years as we gained an understanding of why we were running up and down the pitch, but that all changed rather rapidly for young Sean when the field grew in size.
By Sean Reis7 years ago in Cleats
Champions League Quarter Finals: Who's In, Who's Out
The round of 16 was full of shocking results with Ajax defeating reigning champions Real Madrid five to three on aggregate, Manchester United's shock comeback over PSG, and Liverpool's incredible road win against Bayern Munich.
By Ryan Moretti7 years ago in Cleats
World Cup Football—The Greatest Show on Earth
World will witness once more the greatest show on earth by the second week of June 2022 year. I mean the FIFA World Cup Football, to be held in Qatar. Football is celebrated as "the beautiful game" and the World Cup Tournament is considered the greatest show on Earth. It was the Brazilians who gave the epithet "the beautiful game" to the sport. Though the game had its origin in England, its popularity today is due to the Latin American teams, particularly Brazil and to a certain extent Argentina. But the Latin American teams will be languishing in obscurity if they did not have the great stage of the European football. The Europeans simply love football and they love it to distraction. Thanks to television and the modern satellite technology the whole world can watch a match just at the moment when it is being played and be transported to delirious levels of emotion and undergo a sort of catharsis in a short period of 90 minutes.
By Rose Sours7 years ago in Cleats
10 Gifts for Soccer Moms
Ahhh youth soccer... those were the days. I'll never forget the first uniform I wore that was my own: A red uniform, far too large for my five-year-old body (the number escapes me at the moment). The "red team" would score zero goals that season—with the lone exception of an own goal. Seriously. That's a true story. Our only goal, for an entire season, was an own goal—and if you don't believe me, then just ask my mom. She'll tell the same old tale; but speaking of whom, she was the real MVP that season.
By Sean Reis7 years ago in Cleats
SE Dons: The Team with the Best Mindset in English Football
Venture south of the River Thames and you'll find the SE Dons. Before watching, anyone would think that this is a typical Sunday league club; fluctuating performances, half-decent players and a bobbly pitch that lays home to the odd wonder goal. Let me correct you there. The Dons are different.
By Kieron Parkinson7 years ago in Cleats
The 10 Best Gifts for Cristiano Ronaldo Fans
There is, potentially, nothing more difficult than identifying the "greatest player" in the history of an individual sport. In basketball, the great Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James argument looms large. In baseball, there is literally no unequivocally right or wrong answer, and in the NFL, it's Tom Brady vs. literally everyone else.
By Connor Brighton7 years ago in Cleats
The 10 Best Goalkeeper Saves of All Time
As a child, I was always stuck in the goal during gym soccer because of my lack of athleticism, horrific stamina, and inability to kick a soccer ball. But hey, I could manage to get some lucky saves once in a blue moon. How skillful of me.
By Brett Tortorello7 years ago in Cleats
Liverpool vs Bayern Munich | Match Review
A big night at Anfield resulted in a surprising zero to zero draw between Liverpool and Bayern with Liverpool missing the big chances to put themselves in front. Sadio Mane went close in the first half for the Reds, driving a shot from the centre of the box just wide of the post. Matip also came close to putting Liverpool in front, but Sule blocked well for visitors.
By Jeremy Walker7 years ago in Cleats