Sentence examples for soccer first from inspiring English sources

The sport could be enjoyed anywhere, it seems, barring England, where organized soccer first began.

He's devoted practically all his spare time to soccer, first as a player, then as an executive.

Venezuela, no longer the whipping boys of South American soccer, first reached the quarter-finals when they hosted the tournament in 2007 and got their best result four years later when they reached the last four.

Seventeen years after U.S. Soccer first laid out plans to compete for a World Cup title, the men are finally getting results that their female counterparts achieve on the regular.

He possesses something akin to a soccer sixth sense.

World Cup Soccer Third quarterfinal: Argentina vs. Belgium, 8 30 a.m.

On his first World Cup team … Has played 335 games in Major League Soccer, second all-time among midfielders … Appeared in a career-high 10 games for the U.S. in 2013, starting twice in World Cup qualifying.

Besides some successes, like Hakeem Olajuwon of Nigeria, who was drafted by the Houston Rockets in 1984, the continent has been an area of mostly untapped or underdeveloped talent in a soccer-first region.

Baseball and outdoor soccer rank second and third.

Mr. Lobos, who once played professional soccer, struck first with a goal in the first five minutes.

The former England captain David Beckham has been unveiled as Major League Soccer's first galactico.