Sentence examples for soccer ground from inspiring English sources

The new building is a jewel of a soccer ground, a UEFA Elite Stadium (Category 4), the highest mark possible.

Photographs of 10 of the 198 people appeared on the newspaper's front page under the headline: "Banned: The 198 louts barred from every soccer ground in the country".

Sommers, an electrician by trade, lived only a few blocks from Todd Field, the soccer ground constructed by Todd Shipyard Corporation, the largest shipbuilding company in the United States.

Sporting venues include the Headingly stadium complex, which comprises an internationally famous cricket ground and rugby ground; a football (soccer) ground at Elland Road, home to Leeds United ; and a championship golf course at Moortown.

In Soweto, the country's biggest black township, weeds grow around the goalposts in the rugby pitch, but children crowd on to the soccer ground, some of them playing barefooted.More worrying for those promoting the World Cup as a unifying event is the risk that it could do the opposite: re-open old racial wounds.

So here we were on a sunny afternoon in Southend-on-Sea, an hour's rail ride east of London, walking toward Roots Hall, a scruffy old soccer ground that seemed to sprout like a tree fungus out of the row houses, pubs and fish-and-chips joints that surrounded it.

The São Paulo-based firm began life in the 1980s, selling advertising space at soccer grounds.

With the funding, the state proposes to build hockey and soccer grounds, as well as an indoor stadium in every town with a population of more than 50,000, the state's sports minister said Friday.

For example, in the late 1980s in the United Kingdom the Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher intervened personally to force through changes in Britain's football (soccer) grounds, such as the installation of steel cages to pen in crowds, to counteract the politically embarrassing problem of football "hooliganism".

'Kiss cam' is popular around the Major League Soccer grounds, and Gerrard was first spotted practising kissing in front of the camera in 2009 after scoring against Liverpool's bitter rivals Manchester United.

Unless they want to resort to some unrealistic measures (see "Crashing The World Cup"), hundreds of thousands of ticketless fans will have little choice but to soak up the atmosphere outside Germany's soccer grounds in a bier keller, or to stay at home and watch the games on TV.