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Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach (born June 2, 1980) is an American retired soccer player, coach, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. A six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, Wambach has been a regular on the U.S. women's national soccer team since 2003 earning her first cap in 2001. As a forward, she currently stands as the highest all-time goal scorer for the national team and holds the world record for international goals for both female and…

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…

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…

East Tennessee is very interesting to many people, many northerners often come and visit a lot because it’s very calm and very slow. But most of all they come for all of its historical landmarks in the region of upper East Tennessee and to learn about the historical figures that made this region of the country a place visitors would enjoy. Also, East Tennessee is known for its country music and bluegrass. This quote perfectly describes east Tennessee, “Take any path in East Tennessee. You’ll end…

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…

Both articles “If You’re a Market Bull Then Root for These Teams in the Super Bowl” published by Fortune and “Does the World Cup predict stock markets?” published by The Telegraph, discus the correlation between the winners of major sport championships and the following returns in the stock market. The article in Fortune deliberates how the stock markets will perform based on the “Super Bowl predictor”—a theory popularized by the stock analyst Robert H. Stovall, after sportswriter Leonard…

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…

player to appear in the three finalists in her junior year (Who). Morgan was selected to join the United States Women's Soccer team at age 17. She couldn’t play with the team until April 2008 because of a ACL injury (Who). In FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup International 2008, United States wanted to get to the championship. In the final match facing against North Korea, Morgan scored the winning goal (Alex). In Puebla, Mexico she marked her international debut and scored her first international…

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…

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…