striker
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Or, as former AFC Richmond striker Dani Rojas said of soccer: “Football is life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The U.S. was set to play Belgium in the round of 16 without striker Folarin Balogun, who received a red card in the previous match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
But against fellow Premier League opposition in Leeds and a solid top-flight striker in Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Liverpool were brutally cut open.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
France striker Kylian Mbappe is the record goalscorer in World Cups, helping his country win the 2018 competition and then scoring a hat-trick in the 2022 final as Les Bleus lost on penalties to Argentina.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
“No, it had something to do with Mrs. Strauss’s husband. He delivers ice down at the Stockyards. I suppose with the unrest that’s going on, a striker accidentally caused his horse to spook.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Father Clement Thibault, Babs’s priest-mentor since childhood, is defrocked for publicly supporting the strikers after the church hierarchy forbade him from taking sides; the priest then begins a separate campaign to expose ecclesiastical misbehavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
That is despite Delap having been considered one of the Premier League's most exciting young strikers when Chelsea signed him from Ipswich Town last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Of course, an extra round of matches for the 48-team tournament will help these strikers as their teams go deep into the competition.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Your team’s strikers will also take their kicks as part of each round.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The strikers held fast at Hicks’s mines, but world events intervened.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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