In February, former professional soccer player Robbie Rogers announced on his blog that he is gay.
The hippie soccer player from 21st century Seattle could have been the Renaissance artist's model.
Justin Fashanu is the only significant British soccer player to have come out publicly, doing so in 1990.
Hamm also shined as the most marketable female soccer player ever generating millions of dollars from endorsement partners.
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He has recruited three retired athletes--an Olympic skater, a soccer player and a wrestler--to run for the legislature.
Ibee is not the only American soccer player that has made the move to a different national team.
And David Beckham was probably never the best, in fact, definitely never the best soccer player in the world.
For a soccer player, that means taking a cut of any future transfer.
The boldest move was to sign a Chinese soccer player, Chen Zhi Zhao to be part of its professional squad.
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Also last year, a soccer player in New Zealand was banned indefinitely after he punched a referee and broke his jaw.
"Sometimes the soccer player side takes over, so you have to be careful, " said Alexandre Robineau, a 33-year-old seminarian from France.
One role model: David Beckham, the tough soccer player who isn't afraid to wear sarongs and nail polish (off the field).
He ranks as the second-highest-earning soccer player behind Barcelona's Ronaldinho on our most recent list of Most Valuable Soccer Teams.
But Silberman, whose NFL.com bio listed her as a former club soccer player at Wisconsin, seems to understand what she's up against.
Investigators say Mr. Tan leads the syndicate while Mr. Suljic, a former soccer player, allegedly helped the group fix matches in Italy, the warrant said.
Investigators believe Mr. Tan leads the syndicate while Mr. Suljic, a former soccer player, allegedly helped the group fix matches in Italy, the warrant said.
"Drogba is a very good soccer player, his outstanding skills and amazing experience will give us motivation to improve our games, " said Argentina's 1986 World Cup winner.
In 1981, he became the first black soccer player to command a 1 million pound transfer fee (from Norwich City to Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League).
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Some types of multitasking come naturally: a soccer player has to run down the field and assess the situation at the same time, adjusting his or her path as necessary.
"It's like we were waiting for something like this to happen, " said Marc Batchelor, a South African soccer player who socialized with Pistorius in South Africa's glamor and sports circles.
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In the extremely inexact science of deciding a soccer player's value, the one thing that most Premier League teams can agree is that they want players with Premier League experience.
The only big film opening this weekend (in 2, 700 theaters) is Playing For Keeps which stars Gerard Butler as a washed up soccer player who returns home to try and become a man.
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One of his most high-profile jobs to date was for Carly Cole, the wife of the English soccer player Joe, who commissioned Mr. Pellizzoni to work on her townhouse in Chelsea, an upscale West London neighborhood.
In a test-case ruling involving a Belgian soccer player, Jean-Marc Bosman, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg decided in December 1995 that the European Union's rules on the free movement of labour applied to sportsmen.
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Though science has been her passion since first starting a science club in the third grade, Brittany has managed to master other talents as well as a varsity soccer player and mentor to students in her community.
Giggs, who plays for Manchester United and is known for his squeaky-clean reputation, was the sole soccer player recently mentioned in a stream of six tweets about celebrities who had taken out gagging orders on the press, by an anonymous Twitter account holder.
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Since then the French paper Le Parisien (followed by the British press, including The Times and Daily Mail) has taken that idea one step further and proclaimed as truth that Beckham, the highest paid soccer player in the world, is scamming the French government out of his fair share of taxes.
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