Sentence examples for black soccer from inspiring English sources

America had never had an international black soccer superstar.

Yesterday, he wore a red cape, a yellow shirt, green suspenders and green tights under black soccer shorts.

Consider the 70s experience of the pioneering black soccer superstar Laurie Cunningham, who had the temerity to fall for Nicky Brown, a white English girl.

As his friends read poetry, former teammates from the Watchung Hills Regional High School, all of them wearing their black soccer jackets, cried and hugged one another.

And black soccer players are typically mocked by English and Italian fans with ape noises and by Poles with bananas tossed on the playing field.

Soon, because I was the only black soccer player many of them knew, they called me Freddy whenever I did anything remotely impressive on the field.

It certainly did not hurt that Noah, the son of a black Cameroonian soccer player and a white French mother, was as handsome as a model and bright and sensitive enough to be able to express his hopes and fears with a soft-spoken eloquence.

So are churlish fans: last week Spanish ones hurled racist insults at black English soccer-players.

But no one disputes the fact that rugby somehow pushes South Africa's racial buttons in a way black-dominated soccer and white-dominated cricket fail to do.

The sky blue of the Chelsea Football Club is the shimmering new black of English soccer -- stylish and expensive.

However, Russia and an awful lot of the former Soviet states have been backward in their tolerance of abuse of black athletes, particularly soccer players.