World Cup

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 male soccer players with 184 goals. Wambach was awarded the 2012 FIFA World Player of the Year,…

Going hand in hand with the sponsors pulling out was the lack over viewership as the league aged. The league was booming with fans its first year of existence, but later found its fans faded with the memory of the 99’ Corld cup. A lot of different reasons are found to be the cause of peoples lack of interest. First of around the early 2000’s we had taken steps to reach closer to gender equality, but many people still viewed women as people who should stay home to cook, and…

Summer Olympic wins (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012) and three World Cup wins (1991,1999, and 2015) while, the men have almost never stood on the podium let alone win a gold medal (History). Not to mention, a few of the female players are regarded to be better soccer players than the men. Players like, Abby Wambach, a forward for the female team, “has 184 international goals – more than any other man or woman in history” (Goff, 2015, par.1). Abby Wambach has broken the stereotype that women are not as…

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…

organization that will be free from corruption and that will restore the global soccer community’s faith in FIFA. The vision statement I would put in place as co-President is: “Changing the game. Changing the world.” While this vision statement is similar to the current statement “For the game. For the world.”, it carries…

known today. The multi-billion dollar soccer organization, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), has helped and impacted many countries around the world. Furthermore, this sport has help people to become more healthy and to stay away from the bad influences in life. The beautiful game of soccer has influenced the world in a way that no other sport has both through the societal changes and the influences of individual lives. There was no first soccer game, the game was played…

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…

Pele was born in Três Corações, Brazil on Oct 23, 1940. His full name is Edson Arantes de Nascimento. He was the first child of João Ramos and Dona Celeste. Pele was named after Thomas Edison he moved with his family to the city of Bauru as a young boy. Joao Ramos, better known as “Dondinho” struggled to earn the living as a soccer player, and Pele grew up in poverty. Still he developed a rudimentary talent for soccer by kicking a rolled-up sock stuffed with rags around the streets of Bauru.…

My favorite part in this book was when Pele and his brazilian team won three World Cup championships, I also liked when Pele did his famous bicycle kick at his games. Pele wore a yellow and green jersey with his name and number ten on all three of the World Cup championships. The first two World Cup championships they won were awarded with the traditional FIFA World Cup trophy. But third World Cup championship they won was awarded with the one and only, Jules Rimet trophy! Edson Arantes…

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, born in Três Corações, Brazil on October 23, 1940. He is generally known as the Brazilian Football Forward, Pelé. Broadly respected to be the best player ever. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). That same year, France Football asked their previous Ballon d'Or victors to pick the Football Player of the Century...Pelé was chosen. In 1999, Pelé was then chosen Athlete of the…