The English Premier League is largely viewed as the most prolific and affluent league in world soccer.
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Gabriele Marcotti is the world soccer columnist for The Times of London and a regular broadcaster for the BBC.
Whether through coverage on Fox Soccer Channel, Gol TV, or ESPN, American consumers have received increased exposure to world soccer.
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But World Soccer's Gavin Hamilton told CNN that Ukraine's focus on getting the stadiums ready has come at the expense of the infrastructure needed to stage the event.
Spain's "Furia Roja" "The Red Fury", and rarely has a nickname felt so apt have enjoyed an unprecedented hegemony over world soccer at the national team level for the past six years.
FIFA, world soccer's governing body, gave the green light to sponsor advertising for referees in domestic leagues in 2001, but it remains forbidden in FIFA competitions such as the World Cup.
Not only the government-led growth acceleration program, the PAC program, but also the upcoming World Soccer Cup in 2014, and the Olympics in 2016, provide extensive opportunities for investment and cooperation between Brazilian and U.S. businesses.
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World Soccer writer Mark Gleeson, an expert on African football, believes that the policy of hiring European coaches rather than homegrown ones is reflective of a trend of football as a whole and not unique to Africa.
"Football is a mirror of society, and sadly the same ills that afflict society -- in this case violence -- also manifest themselves in our game, " the head of world soccer said in a statement on FIFA's website.
Representing the Asia-Pacific region of FIFA, the world soccer association, under the auspices of the Asian Football Confederation (with 46 member nations) at the 2010 South Africa World Cup venue are four teams: Australia, South Korea, North Korea and Japan.
But with Neymar's contract due to expire at the end of next season, allowing him to leave the club without a transfer fee, Santos has made the decision to cash in on its star striker, who will likely become one of the best-paid players in world soccer.
But with Neymar's contract due to expire at the end of next season, allowing him to leave the club without a transfer fee, Santos made the decision on Friday to cash in on its star striker, who will likely become one of the best-paid players in world soccer when he moves to Barcelona.
"I have absolutely no doubt that we will honour our undertaking to Fifa and the world community of soccer players and lovers to create all the necessary conditions for the holding of the best ever Fifa Soccer World Cup tournament, " he said.
Normally this blog only focuses on the intersection of soccer and statistics, but every so often events in other sports compel a break from the purely analytical world of soccer and a diversion into commentary instead.
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One Cofetel official said she felt like Mexico had just won a World Cup soccer game.
Throngs of tourists visited during the World Cup soccer championship, and the international press coverage was fantastic.
They were cleared off the streets in a 'clean-up' in anticipation of the Fifa World Youth Soccer Championship.
The Nobel laureate last made a public appearance on a major stage when South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament.
Part of the optimistic sales outlook is because of the world-wide popularity of World Cup Soccer, which benefits the company once every four years.
This summer, ESPN Mobile streamed over 100 million minutes of World Cup soccer coverage to phones and the great majority of it was live.
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The dictatorship reached its zenith of power when Argentina hosted and won the 1978 World Cup soccer tournament, providing a boost of nationalistic pride to the country.
Uganda, where twin bomb blasts last year killed about 80 people during the World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa, put its security forces on high alert.
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At the top of that list is Hawk-Eye, the ball tracking system already used in tennis and cricket that may soon stake its place in World Cup soccer.
The country will grab international headlines in 2014, when it hosts the World Cup soccer championship, and again two years later, when the 2016 Summer Olympics comes to Rio de Janeiro.
Some ends up in whimsical graffiti marking World Cup soccer matches, New York Giants Super Bowl victories and other less-weighty matters that have gone on since construction began six years ago.
The New York Times this past weekend included an article describing the World Cup soccer jerseys as an example of a green product that is not from a green company (Nike).
Most of the people coming from abroad to watch or participate in World Cup soccer will be entering the country through GRU. And for years, it has been nothing short of a nightmare.
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