the United States Women’s National Soccer team (U.S. Women’s Team) are speaking up about issues concerning wage-discrimination. Despite their incredible success in the previous years‚ their compensation is a significantly lesser amount than the United States Men’s National Soccer team. In 2015‚ the U.S. Women’s Team claims they generated nearly $20 million more in revenue than the U.S. Men’s Team and yet they were paid less. For being champions in the 2015 FIFA Wold Cup‚ the Women’s Soccer Team
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When the United States national soccer team defeated the Spanish national team in the semifinals of the 2009 Confederations Cup‚ many sportswriters and fans called the U.S team’s win one of the biggest upsets in modern soccer. Although the United States is known for having dominant sports teams‚ many refuse to admit that the United States has a good soccer team‚ let alone believe that Americans know about the sport soccer. In all fairness‚ even people in the United States do not believe that Americans
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Women’s Soccer: the History‚ the Glory‚ and the Challenges In front of a crowd of over 26‚000 fans‚ Carli Lloyd dribbled the ball and scores! Winning the game. The first hat trick ever in a Women’s World Cup final (Key Figures… 1). Soccer is considered the most popular sport in the world. For men. With players like Carli the sport is growing in popularity for women. Ever since women have been allowed to play soccer they have influenced the game and world culture. The History of Soccer Soccer was
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The Subculture of Soccer Hooligans Abstract Are youth cultures spontaneous forms of resistance to mainstream culture‚ manifestations of new styles of expression‚ or products of consumer culture? Do soccer hooligans help the players of the team their rooting for with their encouragement and praising or does the violence they commit cause too big of a distraction to the players and hurt their team’s chances of winning in the long run? These are two important questions that my research was focused
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there is one sport known in every corner of the world‚ and that sport is known as soccer. Soccer is unique‚ it ignores all ethnic‚ earthly and religious boundaries. Other sports can’t compare with the emotion that Soccer brings to each match‚ as people from the world come together to watch their team play. There are many sides of soccer. Soccer is proven to be the number one sport played and
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years after soccer gained popularity stateside‚ the U.S. men’s national team has gone from missing the World Cup entirely to regularly qualifying for the tournament. It’s a major feat no doubt and a credit to the enterprising American spirit. But let’s get real. Even though we’re excited to watch the USMNT qualifying matches later this fall‚ we must remember qualifying is our consolation prize for the ultimate goal of obtaining the Cup‚ or at least earning international esteem in soccer. As Americans
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10. Kelly Smith 9. Hanna Ljungberg Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images The popularity of women’s soccer has increased exponentially since the inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1991‚ and with the improved quality of play has come a steady stream of great players over the years. This is our list of the 10 greatest female soccer players ever. Most of these names you’ll recognize‚ whether you’ve followed the game only in America or on the world stage. Who would make your top 10? Let us know in the comments
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The soccer who most people watch around the world is the men one. The women soccer is not as broadcasted on TV as men’s‚ and the gap between it is not small. There are a huge difference on men’s and women’s soccer in terms of which one is more famous and broadcast around the world. The investment on women’s soccer is also not even close as they deserved. The world faces machismo in all the manners‚ but as we are talking about soccer‚ why don’t women have the same privileges as men? How many young
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USA Soccer Academies For all the great things that American succeeds in‚ one area they always lag behind is in soccer. In a country of three hundred and seventeen million people how is this possible? We have one of the largest player pools in the world. But‚ the farthest we have ever gone in a World Cup‚ is the quarterfinals. We still get beat by the small nations of the CONCAF (Confederations of North‚ Central America‚ and Caribbean Association Football). How is this possible? Just two short weeks
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Major League Soccer have more authority than the league officials in the English premier League‚ they have a greater influence on the punishment of those‚ which could make the league better suited for preventing racism. Since the establishment of the English Premier League the number of racist occurrences has gone up as more foreign players enter the league‚ this has concerned many fans of Major League Soccer because there are similar trends taking place there now. As Major League Soccer begins to expand
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