football
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If owning clubs is one love, youth football is the other, and his regular presence at his son's games and the Messi Cup are the proof.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Tributes poured in from across football, with clubs across the country observing a minute's silence.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
At the start of his career, Hastert was a high-school government and history teacher, as well as a wrestling and football coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
One such example is African and South American players who play their domestic football in Europe and have to travel cross-continent to fulfil international fixtures.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
I’m staring out at an atrium as cavernous as six football fields.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
He’s been fed hundreds of footballs from a Jugs machine to develop hands that don’t drop passes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The smell of rubbish hangs heavy in the air as pickup trucks and handcarts crawl through narrow alleyways, unloading the day's collections while children weave between them chasing footballs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Long before the World Cup kicked off, U.S. manager Mauricio Pochettino wasn’t shy about setting extraordinarily high expectations for a country that believes footballs are oblong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The people waiting outside our ports of entry are not footballs stopped at the 1-yard line, letters suspended in a mail carrier’s hand, or dinner guests lingering on a porch.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
Bikes and skateboards and footballs and sneakers were scattered from the front door to the road.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
