soccer
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England’s principal soccer rivals are mostly powerhouse teams that have knocked them out of major tournaments in a variety of excruciating and soul-crushing ways—Germany, Argentina, France.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 11, 2026
"For us Americans who don't know a lot about soccer... it's wonderful, he's amazing."
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2026
Thanks to soccer, often called the world’s beautiful game, many found a needed distraction.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2026
Top-tier matches from the U.K. became a fixture of Norwegian television in 1969, back when there was only one channel and Scandinavian soccer used to take a winter hiatus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 11, 2026
Since I was a good soccer player and a responsible student, in my third year the headmaster asked me to be one of the co-captains of the team.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
Vocabulary lists containing soccer
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