Sentence examples for appreciate soccer from inspiring English sources

Would I start to appreciate soccer?

Appreciate soccer as a gestation -- a formation that may only deliver once but may produce the most beautiful moment.

He had returned to the United States in 2000 after a decade spent appreciating soccer's cultural significance while working for the N.F.L. in Europe.

Anyone who has gone to Sierra Leone, as I did just after the civil war, would appreciate how soccer — big league soccer in Europe — was a dream beyond a dream to the children there.

It was readily apparent that the spectators knew the game and appreciated good soccer.

Participation is limited to 11 Southeast Asian countries, and the games this year include local favorites such as pétanque, dragon boat racing and the martial art wushu, in addition to a roster of more globally appreciated sports: soccer, track and field events, tennis and volleyball.

"Fans are starting to appreciate each other as soccer fans rather than just as opposing national team fans," he said.

She has played for Vasco da Gama, Santa Cruz and Santos in her home nation, and five years for Umea IK in Sweden, a country that appreciates women's soccer more than most.

That the two shows of dominance came on the same day, in two vastly different sports and in two distinct parts of the world, was nothing but a coincidence, but at least we can sit back and appreciate the spectacle of the soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and the Connecticut women's basketball team with the same part of our brains.

During the World Cup, there's one surefire way to acknowledge and appreciate that diversity: televise the soccer matches.

By supporting women's soccer, we can appreciate women for their athletic prowess and not their physiques.