Sentence examples for soccer down from inspiring English sources

In the weeks leading up to that moment, I had fallen in awe of OG Ronaldo – a player who seemed to break soccer down to its most fundamental equation: put the ball in a place where an opposition player can't touch it, then shoot.

The Cosmos' home stadium never would be confused with a cathedral of soccer – Downing Stadium on Randall's Island, situated between Queens and Manhattan.

"It had been too long that Senegalese soccer was down.

Up with the soccer mom; down with the welfare mother.

We see them on every sideline, from the premier leagues of top soccer nations down to the school fields of kids' games: unimaginative old-timers bawling out players for the crime of doing what comes naturally rather than what is ordered.

Two months after winning the World Cup, Spain's soccer players touched down in Buenos Aires this week.

But a eurosnob is generally someone who only watches European soccer and looks down his or her nose at MLS.

When asked about the use of the hijab, the Islamic head scarf, in soccer, Blatter shot down Prince Ali's offer to answer on his behalf.

Such special police units, or militias, are better equipped to put down soccer riots than to fight in the highlands of Chechnya.

The flagship and the fleet, the old North American Soccer League, went down for many reasons, the final nail being FIFA's decision to award the 1986 World Cup to Mexico when Colombia, the original host, dropped out.

CAIRO — A demonstration that brought tens of thousands to this city's central Tahrir Square turned violent on Friday, when thousands of people — led by a heavy contingent of soccer fans — tore down a protective wall around the Israeli Embassy, while others defaced the headquarters of the Egyptian Interior Ministry.