Word: soccers
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...Doting audiences have seen Zhao grow from elfin youth to cagey comedian. In the international hit Shaolin Soccer she plays a shy baker with an extravagant case of eczema who shaves her head, pulls some nifty martial-arts moves and wins the match, the guy and, in the film's last scene, the cover of TIME. In My Dream Girl, a ripoff of Pygmalion, she's a ragamuffin (but still quite a muffin) who elevates silliness into a showcase for urchin charm. She ranged further in two films she made with Jiang Wen: He Ping's Warriors of Heaven...
...shopped, kids didn't knock on his door for his signature, people didn't, as he says, consider their lives complete if they just got a whiff of his cologne. One day last summer Tim Howard was a 24-year-old from North Brunswick who happened to play soccer for a living; supremely gifted and almost wholly obscure. He could walk through his local mall wearing a jersey with his name stitched in Day-Glo, and no one would know him. Once a boy asked him for an autograph in the lobby of a theater, and Howard stopped to oblige...
...this." Coton didn't doubt that Howard was physically ready. In fact, he believed that, with the typical goalkeeper peaking in his early 30s, "we could have a big player on our hands for years to come." Equally appealing was the fact that the U.S. has become soccer's WalMart: Howard's $4.1 million transfer fee was tiny compared with the $52.5 million paid out to Leeds in 2002 for defender Rio Ferdinand, now with Man U but suspended for eight months for missing a drug test. The only real unknown for United was how Howard would handle his immersion...
...held overseas, say they don't have to spend hours on the treadmill or in aerobics classes to stay fit--and they're having a lot more fun than they would hitting the gym. "These people have enormous physical ability, and it's keeping them young. Someone who plays soccer, football or basketball probably couldn't last more than a few minutes in a ballroom-dance competition," says Archie Hazelwood, 82, president of the USABDA...
...remaining allowance to a firm that's unable to honor its own. National plans outlining the allocations are due in Brussels before April - but so far, none have been submitted. For the environment, that's cold comfort. - by Adam Smith Penalty Time Officials in charge of Germany's 2006 soccer World Cup preparations were left red-faced after Karl-Heinz Wildmoser, president of German club 1860 Munich, was arrested along with three others on suspicion of pocketing bribes worth €2.8 million from the construction firm picked to build a stadium for the tournament...