Word: soccer
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...Senior soccer standout Andre Akpan has yet another accolade to add to his already impressive list. In the past month, the forward from Grand Prairie, Texas was selected to Soccer America’s 2009 MVPs team and College Soccer News’ Team of the Decade, named New England Soccer News’ Player of the Year, and offered a contract with Major League Soccer...
...Hermann Trophy is awarded by a collection of NCAA Division I soccer coaches to the top male and female soccer player in that division. This year, Akpan came in a close second to the University of Akron’s Teal Bunbury, while Stanford’s Kelley O’Hara captured the female title...
...ever advertisements for the continent - or a disaster. There are many potential stumbling blocks: infrastructure, transport, security. Some of these may turn out to be unexpected triumphs: the stadiums, for instance, are nearly finished - and they look fantastic. But for fans and players alike, the biggest doubts over the soccer tournament, which begins in June, center on security. South Africa has some of the highest levels of violent crime in the world, and protecting half a million foreigners, many of whom will be men with a taste for beer, would be nigh-on impossible anywhere, let alone in a country...
...pictures of soccer riots on LIFE.com...
Fermi Wong had her moment of revelation one day in 1998. The social worker was roving the streets of a working-class neighborhood in Hong Kong's Kowloon district, looking out for truant youth, when she came across a gaggle of Pakistani kids playing soccer. They ran and tackled each other along the edge of a pavement, in view of an unoccupied public field equipped with proper goals. Bemused, Wong asked them why they weren't using the actual soccer pitch, which was open to all. "People told us we're not allowed there," came the response...