The adept and poised way the United States moved the ball was a tribute to Major League Soccer, which nurtured many of the players, as well as to the youth leagues and the schools and the soccer moms and dads, and the players who went overseas to pursue this odd notion that Americans, too, can play this game.
Rating: Incomplete x 6 Coach: Jurgen Klinsmann has talked a lot about nurturing an American brand of soccer, a high-tempo, possession-rich, attacking style that will allow the U.S. to put opponents on their heels.
The government has nurtured the creation of a soccer league after years without any organized matches.
There is something to be said for modest-size places — like noisy, intimate Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J., with its 25,000 seats, where Major League Soccer is being carefully nurtured.
His soccer talent was discovered and nurtured, something he has not forgotten.
By having parents introduce their children to soccer in their early years of development, Byer is nurturing a toddler's ability to learn at a more accelerated pace than even ten-year-olds can.
It is being marketed as Mia vs. Julie vs. Brandi vs. Briana vs. Tiffeny -- world-class soccer stars who need no introduction to fans nurtured on their domestic triumphs at the 1996 Summer Olympics and 1999 Women's World Cup.
From an early age, Mena also nurtured a passion for sports, often skipping homework to play soccer.
He is widely respected and has kept Arsenal powerful with free-flowing soccer and a strategy of finding young or underappreciated talent, nurturing it and selling it for a premium, rather than paying extravagantly for established stars.
The fact that the most popular soccer video game in the world is now complicit in nurturing the view that sport and pissing away $20 every weekend go hand in hand is pretty grim.
