Sentence examples for soccer win from inspiring English sources

Not until last month did Middlesbrough, a dour also-ran perpetually struggling to stay in the top tier of English soccer, win the English League Cup.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic marked his return from injury with two penalties for LA Galaxy in their 2-1 Major League Soccer win over Portland Timbers.

Salt Lake, of Major League Soccer, won the first leg of the semifinal, 2-0, advancednced 3-2 on aggregate.

On Thursday he talked about the lessons of soccer — winning and losing — in less convincing fashion than anybody's youth-league soccer coach.

It was 90 minutes of contentious soccer, won by the Salzburg reserves, 1-0, on a second half goal, but more notable for chippy fouls and ill-tempered play.

In some sports, even those now as glitzy as soccer, winning the second division would guarantee you a place in the first.

SEOUL, South Korea — It was a slight coincidence that the biggest spending club in Asian soccer won its second successive league title with a goal from one of its more unheralded players.

Since then, the team has risen to the top tier of Israeli soccer, won this season's Toto Cup and now secured its first title, despite coming from a city with a population of just 23,000.

"Very few have built any kind of career," said John Foot, the author of a book about Italian soccer, "Winning at All Costs," and a professor in the Italian department at University College London.

Kissinger said his small hometown was so successful at soccer, winning three national championships in 10 years, that it was like the Green Bay Packers, which made life difficult for referees if the home team lost.

*UCI men's soccer wins Big West crown.