Posts Tagged ‘Soccer’
Women’s soccer 10 years after U.S. World Cup title
Failure or progress? By Philip Hersh The game is a touchstone for women soccer players, just as the moon walk — the giant step for mankind, not Michael Jackson’s dance move — was for the world 40 years ago, as Ray Meyer taking DePaul to the Final Four was to Chicagoans 30 years ago,... More
Sony Kicks Off Twilight Football Campaign
Sony announced its plans to stage a world event called Twilight Football. As the hour of twilight moves across the world, a series of seven matches will begin. All seven games will take place on 22nd September 2009, the Autumnal Equinox and Vernal Equinox. The matches will be taking place at stunning,... More
New Jersey soccer star Giuseppe Rossi
By Michael Lewis Some American fans think New Jersey’s Giuseppe Rossi is soccer’s answer to Benedict Arnold. Fans are upset that Rossi decided to go with his heritage instead of the country of his birth to play with the green, white and red of Italy rather than the red, white and blue of... More
Soccer is uniting South Africans
By Robyn Dixon Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — When Emma Jordi’s mother suggested a Sunday afternoon at South Africa’s Confederations Cup watching the national soccer team play Iraq, the pretty blond 14-year-old had an excuse. Homework. “I have to write a speech for... More
