Sentence examples for conventional soccer from inspiring English sources

Recently, the shape and design of the panel on the official ball used in the FIFA World Cup was considerably different from that of a conventional soccer ball (having 32 pentagonal and hexagonal panels).

Wild variations include footvolley (volleyball with feet), blind soccer (in which the visually impaired follow instructions shouted from the sidelines), and footbull, which is conventional soccer, except that there's a bull on the pitch, chasing the players around.

Their reactions point up how the co-op has evolved from a countercultural upstart into a neighborhood institution as conventional as children's soccer leagues on Saturday morning.

Going against the conventional wisdom in Major League Soccer that asserts paying big money for a goalkeeper rarely makes sense, the Red Bulls on Wednesday used their third slot for a designated player to sign Frank Rost, 38, whose contract with Hamburg of the German Bundesliga had expired.

Just as Billy Beane of the Oakland A's labored to overcome the biases of a stable of grizzled and skeptical scouts, Anderson and Sally went to work to try to debunk the myths and conventional wisdom that have defined soccer for the last century.

Soft-spoken, the defender's route into professional soccer was far from conventional.

She also believes in "past life regression" which she practices with her two children and describes herself as a spiritual soccer mom whose own conventional, rule-focused father was everything that she is not.

He also thinks that the decision to include the Rayo's title in the name of the club was a "no-brainer," despite the Madrid club being a world away from the soccer scene in Oklahoma and conventional American titles.

U.S. authorities have maintained there is no vendetta against Blatter in the probe, and that even the soccer context is incidental to a conventional racketeering investigation.

Adults and youth use the facility heavily, including a gym for boxing training, facilities for; women's aerobics, ballroom dancing, Indoor Volleyball, 5 on 5 Indoor Soccer, Old-time Dancing, and a mix of conventional and traditional games.

A more conventional corneal transplant might have kept him out of soccer for 18 months to 2 ½ years, said Dr. Julian Stevens, the surgeon who operated on DeMerit.