In his restaurant down the road from Mr. Rovira's bar, Jaume Areste Alonso switched the television from the Olympics to the same soccer game, the Catalonia Cup, a match between Barcelona and a crosstown rival, Espanyol -- a preseason game at that.
Speaking right after his release from prison in 1990, Mandela filled the same Soccer City Stadium where world leaders and celebrities would converge to be seen Sunday.
They played on the same soccer team.
They went to the same elementary and high schools, played on the same soccer team.
They started out at the same soccer school, Newell's Old Boys.
The photo below, of a soccer team from the same school's 2004 yearbook, showed Mr. Holmes as a teenager on the junior varsity soccer team.
In 1971, Batarfi moved in a few doors down from bin Laden, and they played on the same club soccer team.
When Real Madrid and recently crowned La Liga champion Atletico Madrid meet Saturday in Lisbon Foxx, 11 30 a.m. PDT), it will be the first time teams from the same city will play for European soccer's top club prize.
It's the same for soccer.
At the same time, soccer was considered unwomanly.
