wardrobe ch oo A l.m 1. A fte rs The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup‚ and is scheduled to take place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014. This is the second time Brazil has hosted the competition‚ the first being in 1950. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the FIFA World Cup twice‚ after Mexico‚ Italy‚ France and Germany. It will also be the first FIFA World Cup to use goal-line technology. Spain is the defending champion‚ defeating
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thinking football‚ you were right. According to FIFA‚ football‚ also known as soccer in the U.S.‚ has more than 240 million people who regularly watch and/or play it. They also have the most watched sporting event in the world‚ The FIFA World Cup. This past World Cup‚ views reached over 3.2 billion‚ which is 43% of the whole world. Now although‚ football is so popular‚ no one ever talks about the dark side which includes homophobia‚ corruption‚ and what I will focus on today‚ racism. I’m going to give
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Football. Excuse me‚ soccer. The beautiful game. It’s embraced everywhere around the globe‚ and the FIFA World Cup is the most watched sporting event in the world. But the biggest sports nation in the world‚ the USA‚ seems to express little interest in soccer. Why? Some of the issue is that there is little exposure. If you don’t have Fox Soccer Channel‚ all you get on a weekly basis is a Major League Soccer game or the occasional English Premier League game shown on ESPN. Some people say that there
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Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom‚ (born 1 March 1983)‚ also known as MC Mary Kom‚ Magnificent Mary or simply Mary Kom‚ is an Indian boxer belonging to Kom tribal community of north-eastern state of Manipur.[1] She is a five-time World Boxing champion‚ and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships.[2] She is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics‚ competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning the bronze medal.[3] She
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island. (175 word‚ band 9) IELTS writing sample of band 8 Popular sports Popular events like the Football World Cup and other international sporting occasions are essential in easing international tension and releasing patriotic emotions in a safe way. Every four years‚ the whole world stops to watch international sporting events such as the Olympics and the Football World Cup in which athletes show their best performance to make their country proud. These sporting occasions have proved to be
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Research Paper: The History of Soccer The game of soccer has changed a lot since it started. The game soccer originated in England in 1000‚ but some people believe it may have started before the 19th century‚ with the Ancient Romans‚ Greeks‚ and Chinese. In England‚ towns and villages would play against each other‚ half of the village on one side and the other half on the other side. The object was to get the ball into the other villages territory. Sometimes the “ball” would be a pig’s bladder
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The Biography Of Sachin Tendulkar We all know Sachin as ‘The Master Blaster’ but he had a lot more to his life than just a nickname. This project is to showcase the upbringing of a terrific man who has gone down in the history of Indian cricket. 1. Childhood Sachin was born on 24th April 1973 to Ramesh Tendulkar who was a well known Marathi novelist and Rajni Tendulkar who worked in the insurance industry. Sachin’s father named him after his favorite music director Sachin Dev Burman. Sachin
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ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time‚ behind Don Bradman‚ and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time‚ behind Viv Richards.[14] Later in his career‚ Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup‚ his first win in six World Cup appearances for India.[15] He had previously been named "Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 edition of the tournament‚ held in South Africa. In 2013‚ he was the only Indian cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI named to
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MY LAST MOMENTS WITH MY FATHER In the year 1992‚ Senegal was‚ for the first time‚ the capital of the African football. The African nation football cup was taking place in Dakar and Ziguinchor. Everybody was very exciting to have the best players of the continent in Senegal and it may be the year to win the African cup for the first time. With all that excitement‚ I kind of forgot that my dad was very sick and he too wanted people to forget that he was seriously ill. It began‚ one cold night
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Soccer VS American Football Who doesn’t get excited watching Super Bowl or FIFA World Cup? The anticipation of “who’s going to win?” is always the golden question. The commercials and entertainment running during the Super Bowl makes it a yearly social event even for non football fans. In the same way soccer fans wait anxiously every four years to watch FIFA World Cup. The popularity of these two sports‚ soccer and American Football‚ is all over the world. The growing excitement fans feel
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