Sentence examples for soccer establishment from inspiring English sources
The U.S. sports and soccer establishment sometimes still scorn it.
Maradona has captivated his nation's soccer establishment into attempting to retire his No. 10 from the national jerseys.
Anything was worth a shot — even entrusting the team to Huseynzade, who was unknown within the professional soccer establishment.
Wynalda sees all this sudden exposure as vindication for players who he thinks have been overlooked by what he believes is a narrow-minded American soccer establishment.
Wynalda is a former US international, who in addition to his Fox TV work, revels in his self-styled position as provocateur-in-chief of the US soccer establishment - often via cheerfully pugnacious Twitter pronouncements.
They also break new ground in another way by becoming the first and only club to make it into the first round proper from the USSSA (the United States Speciality Sports Association), a relative newcomer to the soccer establishment and easily the rank outsider in the country's football pyramid.
Buying a soccer club allows the establishment of business and political connections and provides good public relations in enhancing Abu Dhabi's global business empire, said Stefan Szymanski, a professor of sports management at the University of Michigan and a co-author of the book "Soccernomics".
The establishment of soccer-specific stadiums is considered the key to the league and the ability of teams to turn a profit.
Regardless of whether one favors the establishment of an Olympic soccer team representing a united England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the chosen name, Team G.B., is likely to displease both Irelands, Northern and the Republic.
It led to the establishment of Major League Soccer and helped kick-start the sport's growth in the United States, which had not been particularly receptive to the sport.
That culture was supposed to blossom in 1994, when the United States successfully staged the World Cup and, as a team, did well enough to advance to the final 16, laying the groundwork for the establishment of Major League Soccer.
