That's the key to soccer.
This is all well and good, but the key for soccer to be what it really can be in the United States is local initiative.
KAMPALA, Uganda — The ballot looked like a rebus puzzle, with pictures of a bicycle, a boom box, a key, a soccer ball, a yellow rose, a giraffe, a hoe — all colorful symbols for Uganda's various political parties.
As American pro sports expand their global reach, success for the U.S. team at the World Cup is key to soccer's own growth, argues Tom Van Riper.
Earlier this spring, when the Copa America Centenario seemed more an idea than a reality, Juergen Klinsmann gathered some key U.S. Soccer Federation employees for a pep talk.
Being fit is key in soccer just as it is in any sport.
The 36 'incorrect' words were: young, chess, circus, march, ink, rye, keys, chequered, soccer, basket, noon, muscle, piano, scribble, bounce, button, feelers, jail, jubilee, rubric, folder, paint, postcard, fan, lamp, book, computer, first, thought, tile, hide, worth, planet, radio, arm, basement.
Media rights can be spotty deals, but tend to be key for English soccer teams because of cable and satellite television, which have bought into soccer to drive subscription fees rather than advertising revenue.
At a stroke, therefore, a key part of soccer's international-transfer system and by implication the system for domestic transfers, too was illegal: a club could not demand a fee for an out-of-contract player as "compensation" for having trained and improved that player.
