Soccer: Youth brings energy to a night drained of meaning
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On Tuesday, Cesc Fabregas, a 17-year-old Spaniard, scored a flamboyant goal and ran the midfield so well that Arsenal thrashed Rosenborg Trondheim 5-1.
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PIRAEUS, Greece -- Instead of playing for their lives under a torturous regime, Iraq's soccer vagabonds played as though they had the time of their lives last night.
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Devastated by doping, a sport looks to youth to revive its fortunes
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By ARIEL DAVID ROME - The fans were pious. The players bound for glory. And the victory? A miracle. Priests and seminarians from several soccer-loving countries took to a field near the looming dome of St.
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Patrick Vieira knows exactly how Francesc Fabregas feels. Just 17 years old, a long way from home in a foreign country with a new culture and language to which he must adapt.
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The kid salvaged an otherwise tough night for the United States at Nagai Stadium.
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Most of the United States national team that may end up in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup will be a delicate mix of young and old, experience and exuberance.
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Mark Hughesâ career as a player and international manager has been characterised by a battling nature and win-at-all-costs attitude.
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Landon Donovan had to pick up his pace. He's not in Major League Soccer anymore.
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Foreign coaches and players often appear in a state of shock when first exposed to the conditions of professional soccer in the United States. The higher the level of their previous club, the greater the contrast when they arrive at their new team.
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Jon Lester, 23, had to feel the energy coming from all over the world last night. The force was with him. There wasn't a sports fan alive who couldn't have felt for a kid who had cancer, beat it, and then came out and won the most important game of the season.
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Watching a big soccer match can strain a fan's heart -- not just figuratively, but literally, German researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Just a few hours after youngsters at a children's home in western Kenya finished the soccer game, their fellow players turned on them.
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Carlos Tevez curled a free kick into the net, pulled off his shirt, ran to the side of the field and jumped into a section of West Ham fans celebrating his first goal for the team. At the end of the game, he trudged off the field, dejected after yet another defeat.
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In the final moments of DC United&#39;s 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Wizards in yesterday&#39;s MLS Cup, coach Peter Nowak paced the sideline
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NEW YORK  - The youngest elite female soccer players are at greater risk of being injured than their older teammates, possibly because they haven't yet developed strategies to avoid getting hurt, according to a study from France.
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No matter how athletically gifted an aspiring young boxer may be, if the kid can&#39;t take the physical demands of training or the pain and punishment that is dished out in the ring, he or she won&#39;t last very long in the fight game.