British football

Usage examples of soccer.

Jimmy had just kicked the soccer ball downfield when he saw the policeman standing on the side, watching the game.

Outside an expat bar called the Fruity Ferret we saw a man in a rain-sodden tuxedo being head butted by a youth in a torn soccer shirt.

Sports buffs replaced baseball with falconry and polo in their Sunday afternoon television repertoire, and the big Thanksgiving game changed from football to soccer.

Jason making the soccer team, Karri was telling him that she had gotten the ball rolling on his extraction.

I started taking them to school, picking them up, driving them to the doctor, the orthodontist, soccer practice.

By that time, Paul had exhausted his wurst and finished the beer and moved on to the examination of a German soccer magazine, as though plumbers of distinction had nothing better to do than kill a Thursday afternoon.

Mandarin, and only had enough Spanish to follow soccer broadcasts when the Anglophone nets were preoccupied with baseball or hockey, but he thought he could get by long enough to land a job.

In front of the Bourse, a deaf-mute soccer team carried on conversation in obstreperous silence.

The soccer game was a scoreless tie between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

They look a little like colonial volvox algae, or soccer balls exquisitely fashioned out of blown glass and bits of diamond.

Father, Avruhm and Chil sewed for the people of the camp and they coached the thriving soccer teams.

The rest of us talked about soccer and exams and the news from the rest of the family.

They spoke of an interregional soccer match, and of the possibility of work stoppage by the truck dispatchers.

She cried at movies, while reading schmaltzy books, and whenever Maxi made a goal during his soccer games-even if not very often.