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	Passing It On: A History of Soccer
		Soccer (which most of the world calls football except the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and Australia) is known as much for its outbursts of violence as its showcase event, the World Cup.
		While the term “soccer” is clearly a British coinage, Americans were the first to use the term in full effect to distinguish it from football.
		Soccer would later be included in every subsequent Olympics, except for the 1940 and 1944 Olympics which were cancelled due to the political tensions of WWII.
	www.randomhistory.com /1-50/042soccer.html (2260 words)

	Plymouth Soccer Club: History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Soccer was also taken up at this time by Yale, Columbia and Cornell, and reintroduced to Harvard in 1871 in a hybrid form known as the Boston Game, a version which also allowed the throwing and carrying of the ball.
		Soccer went into a mini-decline around the turn of the century which was reversed by the re-establishment of the NASFL and American Cup in 1906, and the decision of the St. Louis Soccer League to turn fully professional.
		Soccer was relatively inexpensive as well as democratic -- it did not require specialists, tall players or behemoths as many of the other sorts did, and youth soccer did not have the overly competitive stigma and the political mudslinging that was plaguing Little League baseball and Pop Warner football.
	eteamz.active.com /plymouthsoccerclub/news/index.cfm?cat=116098 (10174 words)

	World Cup Soccer - The World's Game - National Geographic Magazine
		Soccer's laws are laws of equality and nonviolence and restraint, and free to be reinterpreted at the discretion of a reasonable arbiter.
		Soccer's governing body in Africa is aware of the PR damage done by juju stories and has now banned "team advisers" from being part of a squad's official entourage.
		War is perhaps closer to the realm of fantasy, soccer to that of the real, but both share this ubiquity and centrality, as though arising from some collective libidinous source, primary and intuitive.
	www7.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0606/feature1 (5688 words)

	AllRefer.com - soccer, Sport (Sports) - Encyclopedia
		Soccer is the most popular international team sport, followed by vast, emotional audiences and associated at times with such events as the 1969 "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras and oubreaks of mass hooliganism, notably by British supporters.
		Since the 1970s, American soccer has grown at many levels, from childrens' to collegiate; professional soccer, however, has achieved only sporadic success, with the birth and decline of several leagues as fan interest generally lagged.
		Perhaps the greatest soccer player of all time is Brazil's PelE; other recent notables have included Franz Beckenbauer (Germany), Roberto Biaggio (Italy), and Diego Maradonna (Argentina).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/soccer.html (691 words)

	American College Soccer 1946-1959: The Postwar Era
		These teams tried to play possession soccer, slow buildup, combination play, a finesse game, but the major obstacle to playing this type of soccer for most colleges was the mix of a few foreign born players with young American college players who lacked the needed skills, often coming from other sports.
		Often their soccer experience was from participation in sports through the physical education department of the college or from coaching other similar sports that tactically mirrored soccer, such as lacrosse.
		Soccer in some colleges was considered a "non-contact sport." Still, there was retaliation, forceful tackles, intense strong play and a contrast of styles when newcomers to the game clashed with the finesse players.
	www.sover.net /~spectrum/collegepostwar.html (6918 words)

	Perhaps soccer’s globalism is too much for ‘Americans’
		He talked about the so-called “Soccer War” of July 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras, a war that began after the second of three qualifying games for the 1970 World Soccer Cup.
		Believing soccer was the reason for that “Soccer War” is like believing baseball was the reason for the “World Series Earthquake” in 1989 in California.
		Soccer is not the only sport with incidents of violence and alcoholism.
	www.siglo21.com /note.aspx?parNote=3131 (594 words)

	soccer - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		soccer outdoor ball and goal game, also called association football or simply football.
		Perhaps the greatest soccer player of all time is Brazil's Pelé ; other modern notables have included David Beckham (England), Franz Beckenbauer (Germany), Diego Maradona (Argentina), and Zinadine Zidane (France).
		DORAL: Club chosen to run city's soccer program: The Doral Soccer Club scored big Wednesday with city officials, who chose the club to run the city's soccer program for children and teens.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-soccer.html (824 words)

	World Cup Soccer - The World's Game - National Geographic Magazine
		War is perhaps closer to the realm of fantasy, soccer to that of the real, but both share this ubiquity and centrality, as though arising, each, from some collective libidinous source, primary and intuitive.
		It was this war that overshadowed Argentina's defense of its 1978 championship, keeping their fans at home, draining their resources, demoralizing team and nation alike as the casualty figures mounted and their hopes for any kind of face-saving exit dwindled.
		The explanations advanced for soccer's intense mysterious power, the trancelike quality of great matches, its worldwide domination over all other sports, have been many, some finding in it a vivid reenactment of the prehistoric ritual hunt, others echoes of the matriarchal dream, initiation rites, pastoral dreams of a lost golden age.
	www7.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0606/feature1/essay3.html (4537 words)

	Honduras This Week Online \| Features \| Fiction \| The Road Part 1
		In a situation like the futbol war, there were no limitations on the zeal or inventiveness of the "news" reporters, nor the purple language in which they set forth their blistering messages.
		Our first visible connection with the war was in the arrival in Punta Gorda, of a corporal and a private - who had been dispatched to organize our village defense efforts and get us all ready to do our part should the situation require.
		After a scathing review of the great crime that had been committed against the Honduras soccer team, he paid devoted and highly emotional attention to the shabby pedigrees of Salvadorans in general, and their cheating soccer team in particular.
	www.marrder.com /htw/special/fiction/soccer1.htm (3468 words)

	danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: The Soccer Wars
		She has told me that if the kids in her neighborhood when she was growing up didn't have a ball, they went to the butcher shop, and if the butcher had slaughtered a pig that day, he would clean out the baldder, inflate it and they would use it for a ball.
		One is that combative sports and war are substitutes for aggressive behavior -- that the presence of sports is a healthy way for people to discharge their competitive urges.
		While she was frankly too sick to play in her soccer game, the team was short-handed, so she was forced to play as best she could.
	www.danieldrezner.com /archives/002740.html (1528 words)

	The Soccer War
		Soccer may be just a game in other parts of the world, but in Central America it's an endemic form of madness that perennially returns to infect the entire populace for several months.
		The final meeting promised to be a soccer game the like of which hadn't been seen since the Wellingtons squared off against the Napoleons, at Waterloo.
		The "Soccer War," as it came to be known, left 3,000 dead, 6,000 wounded and caused $50 million in damage.
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	Prospect of war hits sporting calendar
		Soccer's World Youth Championship was postponed and Tiger Woods withdrew from a major golf tournament this week as the increasing likelihood of war in Iraq started to take its toll on international sport.
		The September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. caused events like European soccer's Champions League to be suspended and persuaded athletes not to travel to events -- even in parts of the globe considered safe -- whatever the financial incentives.
		World soccer's governing body FIFA decided on Thursday to postpone the World Youth Championship, which was scheduled to take place in the United Arab Emirates from March 25, because they believed players' safety could be at risk.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2003/mar/07war.htm (1123 words)

	International Conflict and the Environment: Rwanda Case
		Guatemala was already in the midst of a civil war fought between leftist guerrillas and the military and guerrillas were attempting to overthrow the brutal Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua.
		Soccer is a national pastime in both countries and patriotism becomes intertwined with the team.
		The 1969 soccer war was a result of heightened tensions caused by the general peasant unrest of the late 1960s throughout Central America.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/soccer.htm (1986 words)

	Football War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The social situation in both countries in the run-up to the war was explosive, and their military governments were looking for a convenient cause towards which to direct their nationals' political concerns.
		Essentially both sides 'lost' the war; neither gained a decisive military victory and the death toll of approximately 4,000 was shared approximately equally between the two.
		The war led to a 22-year suspension of the Central American Common Market, a regional integration project that had been set up by the United States largely as a means of counteracting the effects of the Cuban Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soccer_War (854 words)

	soccer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The most recent U.S. professional league, Major League Soccer, played its first season in 1996 and currently has 12 teams.
		International competition is regulated by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; founded 1904), which sponsors the quadrennial (since 1930) World Cup competition and whose membership is larger than that of the United Nations.
		Perhaps the greatest soccer player of all time is Brazil’s Pelé; other recent notables have included Franz Beckenbauer (Germany), Roberto Biaggio (Italy), and Diego Maradonna (Argentina).
	www.bartleby.com /65/so/soccer.html (639 words)

	El Salvador Honduras War 1969
		The soccer teams of the two nations were engaged that month in a three-game elimination match as a preliminary to the World Cup.
		Criticism of the army was not limited to the public; junior officers were often vocal in their criticism of superiors, and a rift developed between junior and senior officers.
		The war, however, led to a new sense of Honduran nationalism and national pride.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/sierra/soccer1969.htm (1727 words)

	Kesha and Freya's Site - Dumb & Dumber; War Because Soccer - World Cup Mexico - 1970
		The 100 hour war took 6000 lives, 12,000 were wounded, and 50,000 people rendered homeless The cause was ostensibly the World Cup matches between Honduras and El Salvador qualifying for Mexico '70.
		The causal aspects of what is now called the Soccer Wars is complex but the manifestation took place in the most overtly nationalistic setting, a series of soccer matches between both countries.
		This was the context in which the Soccer Wars took place, a use of soccer for nationalistic purposes that had a destructive and divisive impact in Honduras and El Salvador.
	kesha.multiply.com /journal/item/89 (924 words)

	The Soccer War of 1969: Fought between Honduras and El Salvador it was the end of an era in combat
		The so called "Soccer War" between was a unique conflict in the annuals of combat between two more or less equally matched third world opponents.
		The actual shooting war only lasted 100 hours but a state of war existed between the two countries for ten years until a peace settlement was reached in 1979.
		The war is believed to been a major contributor to El Salvador's later 1980's civil war.
	militaryhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/the_soccer_war_of_1969_ (504 words)

	The History of Soccer
		The earliest evidence of soccer was found in Kyoto, Japan where a field marked to play a ball-kicking game was found.
		Historical evidence also shows that some form of Soccer was played also by the Greeks and the Romans, however, the primitive form involved a larger team on each side.
		The first Football (as Soccer is called in Britain) game was played by the locals of east of England, where they started a game, kicking around the severed head of a Danish prince whom they have defeated in a war.
	www.topendsports.com /sport/soccer/history-barbarians.htm (737 words)

	Gay News From 365Gay.com
		The judge concluded that it is not ``reasonable to accept homosexuals in Brazilian soccer because it would hurt the uniformity present'' in team sport.
		Soccer, the judge said, is a ``virile game'' but ``not homosexual,'' and allowing gays could lead to affirmative action for the sport requiring quotas of gays.
		``Soccer is a macho sport anywhere in the world, but we know there are homosexual players, just like there are homosexuals in other professions,'' columnist and TV commentator Antero Greco said.
	www.365gay.com /Newscon07/08/081407soccer.htm (894 words)

	Creative Loafing Atlanta \| News & Views \| Did Honduras and El Salvador really fight a war over soccer?
		Soccer's latest claim to fame is that it supposedly fosters peace.
		The war they're referring to is the so-called La Guerra del Fútbol, known to English-speakers as either the Soccer War or the Football War.
		The Soccer War was fought between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969, when the two nations' soccer teams were playing a best-of-three playoff for the right to compete in the 1970 World Cup.
	atlanta.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:86113&comments=yes (961 words)

	Soccer War Video
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		In the big finale, they team plays against a cybernetic soccer army and that scene is even cooler.
		The Shaoling Soccer that everyone knows (who already seen it), have as the final team an evil team that uses a kind of drug that give them powers.
	www.metacafe.com /watch/143831/soccer_war (365 words)

	El Salvador vs Honduras, 1969: The 100-Hour War
		Their participation in the war remains little known, however, at least one is known to have survived for long enough to be photographed at Ilopango, in the early 1970s.
		When the war with Honduras began, the surviving five aircraft were camouflaged with locally-mixed paints in shades of green, sand and brown, of very poor quality.
		Equally felt was the loss of aircraft: for an air force that went to a war with 12 piston-engined Mustangs and FG-1Ds, the loss of four Corsairs alone was a catastrophe; when the casualties within the Mustang-community are added, the conclusion is that the FAS almost fought to the literal “last shot”.
	www.acig.org /artman/publish/printer_156.shtml (7335 words)

	USATODAY.com - World Cup notebook: U.S. team feels right at home at massive military base
		War and soccer: U.S. coach Bruce Arena clarified a controversial comment made earlier in the week by forward Eddie Johnson at a press conference Friday on the eve of the USA-Italy match in Fritz-Walter Stadium.
		He responded to a question at a Wednesday press conference by likening the tournament to a war, which several foreign journalists felt was inappropriate.
		We are not disrespectful of using the word war for a soccer game, for a football match.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/soccer/worldcup/2006-06-16-kslautern-notes_x.htm (1524 words)

	soccer — FactMonster.com
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	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sports/A0845743.html (644 words)

	SoccerBlog.com: The Soccer Wars: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969
		The causal aspects of what is now called the Soccer Wars is complex but the manifestation took place in the most overtly nationalistic setting, a series of soccer matches between both countries.
		This was the context in which the Soccer Wars took place, a use of soccer for nationalistic purposes that had a destructive and divisive impact in Honduras and El Salvador.
		We all recognize soccer for the beautiful game that it is. And for its power to unite a country as in Cote D'Ivoire and inflame passions between countries, in El Salvador and Honduras (The Soccer Wars).
	www.soccerblog.com /2006/04/the_soccer_wars_honduras_and_e.htm (1041 words)

	The war on soccer \| justdreadful.com
		I told her that the only thing i knew about soccer was that it was some kind of kick ball game.
		She told me that there were a paucity of coaches and I would learn “everything I needed to know” at a 1 day clinic on a Saturday.
		Soccer’s World Cup is a competion between the 32 best teams (each comprised of the best players in each country) in the WORLD.
	justdreadful.com /?p=110 (752 words)

	Honduras, El Salvador close book on "Soccer War" - Boston.com
		Called the Soccer War, or Football War, because it was triggered by tensions that erupted in rival stands of a series of World Cup qualifier matches between the Central American neighbors, the conflict lasted just a few days, but has taken decades to resolve.
		The border was fixed by an international judge in 1992, but it has taken 14 years for the two countries to set up monuments and border posts to actually mark out the frontier.
		Mutual hatred between the two nations was inflamed at the first soccer play-off in Tegucigalpa when Salvadoran fans taunted and vilified the victorious Honduran players.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2006/04/18/honduras_el_salvador_close_book_on_soccer_war (574 words)

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