Your Checklist For Blazing Soccer Speed
To many old school baseball and football loving Americans, hating on soccer is something they love to do. Jim Rome, the sharp tongued sports reporter, is a great example of a proud hater of the beautiful game. Try as they may, they have no argument against the fact that soccer is the world’s most popular sport and no other event garners as much attention as the World Cup. The World Cup, like the Olympic Games, comes every four years and it is the ultimate combination of national pride, international festivity, and extremely high levels of skill, strategy, fitness, and athleticism. With excitement I say, we are only months away from World Cup 2010, South Africa! The United States has come a long way in their development as a soccer nation with the likes of Landon Donovan (La Galaxy and Everton, England), Oguchi Onweyu (AC Milan, Italy), Freddy Adu (Benefica, Portugal), Clint Dempsey (Fulham, England) Damarcus Beasley/ Maurice Edu (Rangers,Scotland) and the list goes on. In the name...