Word: soccering
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...first complete new "town" to be built in Ireland in more than 20 years. Four years after the construction started, however, the building sites in Adamstown are as quiet as the empty streets. More than 200 properties are either vacant or unfinished, and the shopping center, soccer field and swimming pool promised in the glossy advertising booklets have yet to materialize. (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...
North Korea's first soccer games in Europe in 43 years ended in 0-0 draws against Congo and the French club Nantes. North and South Korea have both qualified for the 2010 World...
...claim both Italian and indigenous ancestry; and politically he has veered from hobnobbing with right-wing Peronists such as former Argentine President Carlos Menem in the 1990s to being an outspoken and unconditional supporter of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez today. (See a video of Lebanon's landmine survivor soccer team...
...soccer icon certainly thrives on confrontation, especially with the press. Whether it is firing a compressed-air rifle at pesky journalists outside his home (he struck four and received a three-year suspended sentence a few years ago) or, as he did last week, hurling verbal abuse at them in a press conference after the meager victory against Uruguay. "You can suck it, keep on sucking it," a triumphant but spiteful Maradona spat out at journalists who had dared criticize his coaching skills...
...that outburst seemed to those who know and love Maradona as just another instance of typical bravado, it could backfire badly. The barrage of insults he hurled at journalists was televised, prompting world soccer's governing body FIFA to open an inquiry that could result in him being suspended from coaching the team for up to five games - potentially a death blow to Maradona's hopes of keeping his job for the World...