FIFA,the international football federation, says the United States has twenty-four million soccer players-second in the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Football,called soccer in the United States, is probably the world's most popular sport.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

The soccer World Cup is not just about South Africa, it's about South Africa hosting it and bringing the world."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

He was selected to play for that country's national soccer team, in the Hondurans' first return to the World Cup in 28 years.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The U.S.national soccer team will take the field at this month's World Cup with a talented group of 23 players and high expectations.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The 90,000 seat Soccer City is to host the opening and final matches of the month-long World Cup which kicks off on June 11.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

The Nigerian accommodations and facilities are generally not of the level that FIFA executives, journalists and traveling international soccer teams from around the world expect.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Perhaps it's not just the improving U.S.soccer team that's fueling world cup interest among Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

But he says Mr.Zuma is also here to raise the profile of the World Cup football (soccer) championship, which kicks off this June in South Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

Hundreds of dancers and singers, many of them dressed in traditional costumes, strutted behind a marching band to Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium for the dress rehearsal of Friday's World Cup opening ceremony.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The United States national soccer team accomplished what few believed they could Wednesday night in Bloemfontein, dominating the world's number one ranked team and leaving the stadium with a merited 2-0 victory and a ticket to the final of the Confederations Cup on Sunday night in Johannesburg.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24