For Oxenham, an ambitious youth soccer star from Florida who ended up playing for Duke University, this is not as straightforward an exercise as it might seem.
You'd never had a country with the kind of resources that Qatar can bring to bear sort of take on this kind of ambitious agenda before in soccer, or really any other sport.
United Soccer League, an ambitious third-tier circuit that is thriving in several medium and large markets, is eager to place a team in Baltimore for the 2018 season, multiple sources told the Insider.
It's a tactic that might have produced an all-too-familiar set of stereotypes: S.U.V.-driving soccer moms and ambitious midlevel executives on cellphones, munching fast food and injecting Botox.
Initial approval of $275 million in public incentives toward the construction of an ambitious retail complex with a soccer stadium as its centerpiece (to be ready in 2010) was granted by the city council last December.
"The building blocks have been laid for the most ambitious coast-to-coast professional soccer league in American history". The Los Angeles Galaxy will make its debut April 13 at the Rose Bowl, according to Danny Villanueva Jr., the team's president and general manager.
Mr. Mizohata, former president of a popular local soccer team, has set an ambitious goal of increasing the number of foreign visitors to Japan to more than 10 million in two years and to 20 million by 2016.
Soon thereafter, Sunil Gulati, president of the United States Soccer Federation, called Merritt Paulson, the ambitious owner of Major League Soccer's Portland Timbers.
The women's pro soccer league, or W.U.S.A., was too ambitious too fast for its financial structure.
Apart from Linguistics, he enjoy the sports of tennis and soccer when he is feeling physically ambitious, and Starcraft when he is not.
