I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.
The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the look of a 1980s male model. Flailing his arms, he urges them to sing their anti-Catholic songs louder. The irony is o...
Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.
I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.
Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.
I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.
I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.
And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
For me, it's important that a fan can buy something that is related to me. Like in soccer, you buy a shirt and it's got somebody's name on the back. That's kind of a cool thing.
We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.
