The soccer links between Vancouver and Montreal stretch back to the old N.A.S.L. and up through the teams' days playing in North American minor leagues before M.L.S. expanded to Canada — first in Toronto, then Vancouver last season and Montreal this season.
In a way, club soccer linked to local teams draws more passion than do national teams in lands, like Italy, where the nation-state is a relatively recent implantation.
Programs that link soccer with health, education and community development have a potential to mold the minds and lives of young people, transform villages and catalyze positive, sustainable change.
Various other studies have tried to link soccer madness with heart attacks or mortality, sometimes with conflicting results.
This is a nice hook for a book and a savvy promotional gimmick, but Foer has overplayed his hand here; the fact that soccer can be "linked" to so many cultural phenomena does not mean that it "explains" them.
Initially, Mr. da Silva had also suggested that the awarding of tickets to the soccer game be linked to surrendering weapons, an important concern in a country where armed bands still exercise power.
Davids, born in Surinam, the former Dutch Guyana, where other Dutch stars like Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard also have their roots, believes he is giving something back to his game by linking soccer in the street compounds to health care and education in Africa.
The former Fifa vice president Jack Warner has made an extraordinary television appearance in which he says he fears for his life and claims he will prove a link between soccer's governing body and the national elections in his native Trinidad and Tobago.
Hence a Web site about the soccer World Cup would link to soccer uniform or memorabilia available on eBay.
I'm not here to moralize—I like a bet as much as the next guy but the link between soccer and gambling is already so inexorable that it's impossible to watch a game without Ray Winstone trying to force a tasty little 4/1 shot down your throat.
