FIFA World Player of the Year

Americas favorite game and past time has always been considered the game of baseball. Across the ocean and around the world the game of cricket is played in various different countries and it serves to them as baseball serves to us. Most people just look at the big picture of these two games and just assume that baseball and cricket are the same. Reasons of believing these would be cricket and baseball both are two well-known sports that involve a bat and a ball. However, when you dig deeper…

one’s success. I have 3 soccer players who both represent grit, talent, and a combined mindset of both. When they stand alone, they are both strong. But united, they would be an incredible team. Like a team, instead of comparing about what how strong they are separate, they should be compared how strong they would be like combined. Grit and talent should be praised as if they were both used together instead of…

Several sports seasons were wrapping up in the Sioux Falls area on June 9. The Sioux Falls U-12, U-14, U-16 soccer teams did extraordinarily well in the state soccer tournament. The boys and girls of Sioux Falls brought home six titles (Hoffman 1C). On the road to the tournament, construction was done on I-90. The border between South Dakota and Minnesota was redone, and the crew began to lay concrete (“Construction Crews Prepare to Lay Concrete on I-90 to Minnesota Border” 1D). Also in…

written by Cecil Rajendra and it is a poem solely meant to show how similar people take football to religion. Football or soccer has stirred up passion in spectators and players for so long. It has been around in sports arena for 150 years and counting but still it’s getting more popular day by day. There are no other sports in the world that drove human head over heels and perhaps like nothing else known to humankind. Bill Shankly once said: “Some people believe football is a matter of life and…

what new features it has? The next week, you buy the phone right after you get your paycheck. If this particular occurrence hasn’t actually happened to you, you’ve probably experienced a similar situation, perhaps with a different item. All over the world, people experience a desire to buy things, whether for themselves or for others. This practice of consuming or buying goods is known as consumerism, and it plays a large part in not only the economy, but in the…

to prove ourselves to others, but we also transfer this notion into our nation or a group larger than ourselves. This can be seen through FIFA World Cups every four years. A competition of soccer game between nations around the world. The goal is to be known as the player but also to bring this pride to the nation. Also, there is the NFL Super Bowl every year in the US. I remember seeing how exciting my school teacher was couple days before the Super Bowl started. The Super Bowl is a competition…

From the Super Bowl to the FIFA World Cup, society has found a way to connect and relate with one another through sports; the metaphorical conduit that consolidates mankind from the far ends of the globe. But one thing we don 't take into account when we watch our favorite stars on the big screen is the darker side of sports that is commonly fallen on deaf ears. Every day, previously thought invincible athletic machines suffer against a silent enemy. No, it doesn 't take up the form of broken…

When Americans think of soccer, they think of Pele, but why? Millions of people around the world have played the “beautiful game”, but his name sticks out. Why? There are, actually, multiple reasons why Pele is as famous as he is. This has to do with how influential a person Pele was on, as well as off the pitch. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, is widely revered as the best soccer player of all time, if not the best athlete of all time. He was born on October 23rd, 1940 (age…

1. Introduction Football, originating in England, after hundred years of conversion, has been disseminated to almost every corner of the world. Until 2006, 211 countries and region affiliate with Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA, 2007). Thus, its universality and prevalence enable football as an approach to interpret globalization. Comprehending what is an identity is the first step towards studying the outcome of globalization towards local identity. Barker (1999)…

sporting games to computer battle games, the need to play these has been more revealed by adults rather than children. The majority of the players are males from around the age of 18 to 35, and of these players 56% are males (Essential Facts 2015). The overall average age for a game player is 31(Lofgren 2015). That stat has increased 1 year than the previous year in the Big Fish Game Stats Database, and it is believed to have that increase simply because of the aging of gamers. The evolution of…