Sentence examples for soccer equivalent from inspiring English sources

Lacking any soccer equivalent to Michael Jordan, the USA focus on team play and cohesion.

If so, one hopes he won't think only of money, but also about whether he would watch a soccer equivalent.

In late 1991, after the success of EA's flagship American football game, John Madden Football, a senior executive named Mark Lewis floated the idea of a soccer equivalent.

City now has the soccer equivalent of a "best of" compilation that only a mega-billionaire can buy — with players like Balotelli, David Silva, Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko and Carlos Tevez.

His team has been the soccer equivalent of the Chicago Cubs, in karma if not in longevity, or the old Boston Red Sox, haunted by the departure of the Babe, or the New York Rangers for more than half a century (1940 19400!).

While it doesn't have the global reach of its soccer equivalent, it does have more claims to world status than its baseball counterpart.

We waited for soccer's equivalent to the white puff of smoke from the Vatican.

After two hours of stalemate, it came down to soccer's equivalent of water torture.

Last week Eskandarian won the Hermann Trophy, college soccer's equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.

Jeffries was a four-year starter at Duke University from 1980-83, eAll-Americanmerican status as well as winning the 1983 Hermann Award, soccer's equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.

Penalty kicks were retaken in regulation and again during the shootout as the referee strictly interpreted soccer's equivalent of jaywalking — rules that are clearly stated but often ignored.