Soccer: Is a sport too big for its principles?
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From London to Tel Aviv, soccer is going down roads that sorely challenge its ages&#39; old traditions. In London last weekend, a referee admitted to being bullied by the protests of Arsenal defenders to change
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Alex Ferguson gave a prediction yesterday. It was a typically audacious, not to say defiantly arrogant. It was also almost a definition of self-belief - as in, you have to believe, because surely no-one else will.
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Elevation. Everyone's familiar with it, but only a rare breed can attain it. It's the intangible that allows a player to make his teammates play beyond their natural abilities.
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Major League Soccer could be on the way to finding a successful playoff format. The lack of playoff tradition in soccer, plus a lack of lead-up time to promote games, contributed to uneven success in the league's first 11 years.
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A Spanish doctor believes he has discovered why offside decisions in football matches are often so controversial. Francisco Belda Maruenda, a family doctor in Murcia, said in order for the
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Before David Beckham can convert America into a soccer nation, he'll need to learn the lingo. After saying his family came first, he said the second most important thing "is the foot-, is the soccer."
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With so many World Cup Qualifiers played, teams with many international players will be most affected. Of course, we are talking about Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United, whose players flew all over Europe to play in international matches.
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The ball at the World Championships of Soccer for the Blind clatters like a rattlesnake's tail. Fans are barred from cheering too loudly and clear plastic walls keep the players in-bounds. Every four years, players compete for Cup glory in an eight-nation tournament drawing hundreds, not millions, of fans to a game without the noisy hype of media and merchandising. Save for the goalkeepers, all the athletes are legally blind.
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LONDON -- A friendly game of soccer works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging, new research shows. Danish scientists, who conducted their research on 37 men, also found the soccer players felt less tired after exercising than the joggers because they were having more fun.
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The Giants vs Dolphins game may not usher in an era of American sporting domination in Europe but the NFL and other leagues are giving it a go
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Thousands of kids play soccer for fun, but yearslong involvement with the game can have more health benefits than routine physical activity.
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Winning is neither everything nor the only thing in soccer. Teams often play for a certain result. During the regular season, a tie away from home can be rewarding. In Major League Soccer's playoffs, goal differential will likely determine who advances in two-game series.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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SAITAMA, Japan -- If you were tied, without the ball, with 21.9 seconds to go and the other team's best player was sitting on the bench with an injured ankle, would you put someone on the line deliberately less than two seconds later?
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Comment is free: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Football, athletics, even cricket - the stain of cheating and doping now seems ingrained in our most cherished games.
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Most MLS teams are in a comfortable position for the last two weeks of the regular season. Too comfortable.
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The hybridization of European soccer might have improved the game on the continent, but it is also highlighting the lack of emphasis on player development.