Sentence examples for elements of soccer from inspiring English sources

Some elements of soccer culture will always strike the casual American fan as distinctly alien.

From the 1920s on, players battled ferociously in the Irish sports of hurling (a combination of baseball, lacrosse and field hockey) and Gaelic football (which blends elements of soccer and rugby) while fans caught up on teams back in Ireland.

Air-Land Battle incorporated elements of soccer, understanding combat as a battlefield with a constantly evolving, flowing front-line in which defensive feints were a critical element of the offensive.

In any case, sitting in the tribune, I observed my second handball match ever, a ferocious contest between the French and Swedish women's teams that revealed the sport to be a highly aggressive game with elements of soccer, basketball and lacrosse.

Marketers are starting to disclose details of their ads or, in some instances, introducing elements of their soccer-centric campaigns.

"Lacrosse is an action-packed, contact sport with a lot of scoring that combines elements of basketball, hockey and soccer, and it's the fastest growing sport in the country," Steinfeld said.

Sepp Blatter (left), the FIFA president, has explained why there won't be goal-line technology at this year's World Cup, saying he wants the sport to maintain a "human element" and that all levels of soccer, from 6-year-old kids to open-goal-missing Gonzalo Higuaín of Real Madrid, need to be played with the same rules.

His reason, the Securitate said, was not love of soccer but "a mercantile element" -- he toured abroad to buy videotape recorders and cassettes for resale in Romania.

When he is touring in Scotland and appears on a TV show to discuss his father, who'd been a soccer star there, the three elements of the show constitute "a Scottish orgasm: there would be talk about soccer, nostalgia about soccer and living evidence that they had never allowed their racism to interfere with soccer".

The work presented in this paper details the development of a finite element (FE) model of a soccer ball, allowing for a greater understanding of the performance of soccer balls under dynamic conditions that are representative of play.

Goalkeepers are the oddballs of soccer.