Sentence examples for soccer won from inspiring English sources

WOMEN'S SOCCER won its last four Ivy games, all by shutout, to clinch the league title and an NCAA Tournament bid.

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

MEN'S SOCCER won its Ivy opener in thrilling fashion, as Cameron Porter '15 scored in sudden-death overtime to beat Dartmouth 2-1 at Princeton's Roberts Stadium Sept. 29.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

"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.