That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.
The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.
Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.
It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
One of my favorite things about soccer is how the art and the passion of the game somehow unites people and nations and classes and races. That's something that comes out of the game and how it's displayed and why people enjoy watching it and supporting it.
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys...Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house...and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.
I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
I've never played for a draw in my life.
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.
In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that remain a mystery, the modern preference is for side-footed placement and so the dilemma of goalkeepers has changed from whether to take a guess at dive right or left to if they should dive at all. Or at least that ought to have been their reappraisal. Almunia was feted as the hero in Rome but had he and Doni stayed in the centre of their goal then the number of saves they made in the shoot-out would have been doubled.
Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.
To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.
