Corruption in the “Beautiful Game” Cheaters never win‚ unless it is in sports. Soccer has a tradition of something called fair play. Unfortunately that fair play only transfers onto the field. Recently there have been reports that have uncovered decades of bribery totaling over $150 million (Mills). How is it possible that a sport so influential such as soccer can have corrupt leaders. This is not surprising though when you take into account that ex president Sepp Blatter has been re-elected four
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My goal is to become a professional soccer player and once I retire become a sports commentator. A professional soccer player is an athlete who is paid to play for a soccer team at the professional level. Although being a professional soccer player for a job seems like little work‚ it actually involves a lot of high intensity work. Most teams have mandatory trainings up to 6 times a week‚ which include very hard workouts most people could not keep up with. Other duties include constantly watching
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complete silence forced itself into my head along with thousands of thoughts doubting my ability to block her shot. As the goalkeeper for my soccer team‚ the time came for me to shine. It was the championship game of our tournament and we had excelled to the top winning each game before hand. But none of that mattered anymore‚ we had to win the championships or else our long practices and hard work wouldn’t count for much. My team was ahead throughout the whole game up until the last few minutes
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he most played and watched game in the world. It is considered to be a favorite sport to many people. And‚ people prefer it more than any other sport. Compared to basketball and football‚ soccer is an interesting sport in the way it is played‚ its popularity‚ and the exorbitant amount of money paid to players. The way that soccer is played is so different than basketball and football. The whole idea of these games is scoring on the other team. Soccer is played with 11 players on each team and
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amounts sports but there is one sport known in every corner of the world‚ and that sport is known as soccer. Soccer is unique‚ it ignores all ethnic‚ earthly and religious boundaries. Other sports can’t compare with the emotion that Soccer brings to each match‚ as people from the world come together to watch their team play. There are many sides of soccer. Soccer is proven to be the number one sport played and
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Lacrosse vs. Soccer Everyone enjoys being healthy‚ and playing sports is one way to achieve being healthy. Most people enjoy watching or playing sports. Parents usually enroll their children to play sports at a young age. Lacrosse and soccer are two great sports to stay healthy‚ search for great opportunity; however‚ both cost money to play competitively. Soccer is better in all three of these regards. Soccer has more opportunity and is less expensive. Lacrosse and soccer players are equally healthy
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Ease of Scoring a Goal in Hockey and Soccer Teacher: Mr Smith Due: 13/05/16 By: Jacob Wilkinson Word Count: 1069 Contents Introduction pg 3 Discussion pg 4 Assumptions pg 4 The Players pg 4 Soccer pg 6 Hockey pg 8 Conclusion pg 10 References pg 11 Appendices pg 13 Appendix 1 pg 13 Appendix 2 pg 14 Appendix 3 pg 15 Introduction Since the rules of soccer were established in 1863 it has grown
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Popular Game: Soccer!” Soccer is the most watched sport on television worldwide. This explains why players such as David Beckham‚ who plays for Los Angeles Galaxy earns approximately $46 million annually while Cristiano Ronaldo earns approximately $42 million annually. Soccer‚ which is also known as football‚ is played using a circular ball between two teams. Each of these teams has eleven players including the goalkeeper. The game which is currently the most popular game in the world is played
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I’m going to be talking about my championship game in AAU when I was in 8th grade. We had a total of 10 games in two days. The first game we played the bull dogs first quarter we was down by 5 the second quarter we was down by seven 3rd quarter we was up by ten 4th quarter was up by 20 at the end of the game we won by 20 the score was 60 to 40 our coach told us to make it seem like they was going to win then when half time came he wanted us down at least by 7 but we was down by 10 so after half
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Soccer Players Wages Soccer is the most popular sport in the world with billions of people in all countries following their team. But despite soccer’s popularity‚ it does not seen right that soccer players should get paid the amounts they do when their job is not as worthwhile and life threatening as other jobs like soldiers and doctors. Currently the top ten players in the world earn between $15million to $50million a year‚ compare this with normal jobs where people earn $32‚000 a year. The highest
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