Sentence examples for establish soccer from inspiring English sources

But, as with Japan, it is too early to say that the future of professional football in China is secure.If professional football failed to gain a firm foothold in East Asia, it would be a grievous blow to FIFA's ambitions to establish soccer as the only truly global team sport.

LAYNE VANDENBERG discusses the current state of Chinese soccer and China's renewed push to establish soccer culture.

In that regard, the league has reversed course, deciding not to cultivate the casual sports fan as much as the established soccer fan.

A quick examination of the backgrounds of many of the players on the national team shows that most come either from major cities with an established soccer infrastructure or from ethnic communities with a deep-rooted soccer culture.

With 500 students, increasing academic prestige and an established soccer team, Iman Academy SW, an Islamic school in Houston, was seeking membership in 2010 to the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, a group that organizes competition among more than 200 schools in the state.

eSports teams are concerned the league would discriminate against them in favor of established soccer teams with eSports divisions.

Every four years the hope is that this World Cup will be different, that some new power will emerge to threaten the established soccer powers that be.

No longer willing to submit to the mockery of the more established soccer powers, US players are giving as good as they get, getting stuck in, and US fans at games are no longer silent lambs waiting for slaughter.

A significant reason for their achievement has been the hiring of coaches from more established soccer-playing countries.

While ESPN's enthusiasm may not be significantly greater, the exponential boom in TV coverage of the sport in the US, and the land grabs by NBC (Premier League) and beIN (La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1) have left more established soccer-covering networks such as ESPN and Fox looking for footholds.

Rosell's links to Qatar go back years, to his work helping to establish a soccer academy in Doha for promising players from around the world.