Sentence examples for soccer identity from inspiring English sources

Madrid, the capital, was once the base of Franco's dictatorship and is now the seat of Spain's constitutional monarchy; Barcelona sits in the heart of the autonomous Catalan region, with its own language and cultural (and soccer) identity.

Even as the two ideologies have slowly converged, Gerardo Martino, Argentina's current coach, who guided the team to the Copa América final a year ago in Chile, has not escaped clashes over the nation's soccer identity.

Some saw this as a negative – a clash of soccer identities.

And in recent weeks, the issue of the soccer player's identity has become a matter of national debate, splashed across front pages and featured on television shows.

The truth is soccer retains a unique identity separate to other industries.

"We faced this question: what will it be like when playing soccer isn't your identity any more?" Fergusson, 25, said in a recent telephone interview.

In few places is a sport more integral to the national identity than soccer is in Brazil.

Roldan has finally found his identity as a soccer player.

Scottish soccer is struggling for an identity, a struggle embodied by Craig Levein's tenure as national team manager.

Here was Soccer Mom (in her daytime identity as Christi Balderacchi), picking up T-shirts for her sidekicks back at home base.

The bar — which had perhaps been alerted to Van Haver's identity by Belgian soccer fans — began to play a song from his new album.