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    The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the largest mixed martial arts company in the world featuring most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport. Based in the United States, the UFC produces events worldwide. The organization has nine weight divisions and abides by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. The UFC has held over 300 events, mostly in America with the exception of a handful around the world in the last couple of years. Dana White is the current president and spokesman of the…

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    This videos reveals the some of the most intense comebacks in soccer history. It shows us how on even on the brink of failure, these teams still if not are even more motivated to give it their all to try to catch up in order to win. From personal experience, the feeling of a reward after hard work is the best feeling ever. It's one thing to win, but to win by coming back from a deficit of 1-0 or more is incredible. The part of the video was a clip of a game a couple of years ago between Arsenal…

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    Diego Armando Maradona (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo maɾaˈðona], born 30 October 1960) is a retired Argentine professional footballer. He has served as a manager and coach at other clubs as well as the national team of Argentina. Many in the sport, including football writers, former players, current players and football fans, regard Maradona as the greatest football player of all time.[6][7][8][9] He was joint FIFA Player of the 20th Century with Pelé.[10][11] An advanced playmaker who…

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    Some of the most important parts of soccer are the history, the positions, the goal of the game, and how to play soccer. Soccer is a popular sport. There are eleven positions on a soccer field. There are a lot of rules to soccer. Have you ever wondered what the point in soccer is. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in Europe. People started playing soccer in china in the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. During the Han dynasty people dribbled leather balls by kicking them into small nets. The…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Ladies and Gentleman, chairman, timekeeper, Mr Mcilwain. My team mates are Kiani, the first speaker, Dillion the second speaker, Harry the third speaker and me, Kira the forth and final speaker to sum up our argument. As you know, we will be taking the negative side of the topic that ‘sport stars are overpaid’ which means we are settling once and for all they are not overpaid. Picture yourself in the perspective of an average, hard working accountant with the ambition of being the top of…

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    This creativity has another side; with the improvisation, the thing which makes the Brazilian game so beautiful to watch, comes a disregard of tactics, of system. Again this is rooted in the origins of the game in Brazil and its development in a country plagued by racial and social inequality. According to Brazilian myth, soccer was brought to Brazil by the son of an English father and a Brazilian mother. Sent to England for school, Charles Miller came back with a different type of education.…

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    it. Despite the incredible losses, Roman inspired the era of billionaire sugar daddies who are ready to lose millions just to be part of the game which is globally watched by more than a billion people. Men like Roman have taken over clubs like Manchester City, which is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family. Paris Saint Germain was purchased by Qatar Sports Investment which is owned by the Qatar Investment Authority in the year 2011. Likewise,…

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    striker for Real Madrid. He has also been playing for the Portugal National Team until 2015, when he was released. He helped the team to secure their qualification for the Euro 2016 tournament in summer. He joined Real Madrid after a transfer from Manchester United in 2009. The transfer fee was $132 million, making him the most expensive player in the history of soccer. Ronaldo ranks second among the world’s soccer players with the highest salaries. He makes $40 million annually. Samuel Eto’o…

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