2010 FIFA World Cup

Major League Soccer action continues as the Portland Timbers (11-8-6, 39 points) battle the Houston Dynamo (8-9-7, 31 points) at the former’s Providence Park in Portland, Oregon on Friday, August 21. The regular season match is important for both teams who are trying to position themselves in the tight Western Conference playoff race. Portland is flimsy at the no. 4 spot in the West as only one or two points separate no. 3 Sporting Kansas City (40 points) and no. 5 FC Dallas (38 points) in…

Soccer is the most popular game in the world and it is not hard to see why. Whenever I am watching a match involving my favorite team, Manchester United, it is always exciting. Seeing my favorite players score a goal is such great feeling but there is no better feeling than when your team wins a major championship. No other sport can provide the type of excitement that soccer can. Playing soccer is a very fun pastime but it can really suck if you do not know what you are doing and do not know…

In 1999 the US faced China for the Women’s World Cup. More than 660,000 individuals entered stadiums over the US to watch. The match came down to a penalty kick. After scoring the winning goal for the US, Brandi Chastain made a very unsuspecting and revealing gesture. The United States and China played to a scoreless draw during regular and extra time. Both teams squared off for a shootout to decide the winners of the cup. China scored their first and second shot only to be matched by the United…

this process of defining 'national identity' can also be seen in how country a 'remembers'. With this years failure of qualifying for the World Cup, the main Dutch news broadcast mentions that this brings back memories of the so-called 'the dark 1980s'1 where the article goes into extensive detail when the Dutch soccer team did not qualify for the World Cup either (NOS, 2017, October 11). The language used resembles the idea of collective memory, which is used in creating boundaries of one's…

classes adopted the game, much like in Brazil, but while in Brazil the first players were of the upper class, in Germany it was the aristocrats who followed the working classes (Wilson). Germany has had almost as much success as Brazil, winning four World Cups (West Germany won three, Unified Germany has only won one), but while the Brazilians are known for their flair and individuality, Germany is all about efficiency, each player doing their…

first understood that the FIFA Ethics Committee would suspend only Sepp Blatter, but it now appears clear that the sanctions would also be used against Michel Platini as well as Jerome Valcke, the Secretary General of FIFA. All of them have been under scrutiny lately as the US-led criminal investigations discovered a number of irregularities during their tenure in FIFA, even though the suspended trio claim to have committed no wrongdoings. Blatter as well as many other FIFA officials,…

Messi does not require one touch now to control the ball. As an alternative, his initial touch frequently doubles as the opening stage of a goal-bound rush (Caioli, 2013). Dribbling, if there is a potency which raises Messi on top of the rest of the world 's great players, it is dribbling. The capacity to hit a number of supporters in sequence makes him a really exclusive aptitude, and, sometimes, approximately inevitable. Even though amazing, there is nothing affected in Messi 's dribbing. His…

and transmission of the Zika virus around the world. It is important that scientists take this virus serious and try to take action against it. There is always going to be a problem with bacteria and viruses…

“Rikki-Tikki knew he was a young mongoose and it made him all the more pleased to think that he had managed to escape a blow from behind.” (pg. ) Rikki and I share multiple human qualities, one of them is bravery. In my soccer season, I stepped up to be the goalie when no one else wanted to. The theme of the fictional story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling is bravery can conquer your fears. Rikki-tikki is a brave and curious character in this story. “It gave him confidence in himself, and…

The topic I chose to write about is how FIFA is abusing people in order to build their stadium for the upcoming 2022 World Cup in Qatar. In 2015 allegations were brought against the organization FIFA(which stands for Federation, International, Football, Association), which stated that they are forcing migrant workers to stay in cramped conditions, pay large fees, being lied about how much they will earn, not being paid, and getting their passports confiscated. These allegations came from…