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Examples

The fierce tribal loyalty among soccer supporters leads to violence between opposing fans.
The soccer fans indulged their patriotism, waving flags and singing songs.足球迷们摇着旗唱着歌，纵情抒发他们的爱国热情。
The footballer Paul Gascoigne is to host a Channel 4 television series on soccer skills
I've never been much of a soccer fan.
Did you play soccer at school?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Football/soccer
18-yard box
2 3 5
4 3 2 1
4 4 2
4 5 1
foosball
football boot
football player
football pools
football pyramid
premiership
professional foul
promedios
rabona
reducer
sweeper
the Football League
the Premier League
treble
woodwork

Examples from literature

It was bigger than two soccer fields. 
Soccer, basketball, tennis, and other sports now attract more spectators. 
There has also been a Robo-One soccer match. 

soccer | American Dictionary

soccer
noun[ U ]
us/ˈsɑk·ər/
a game in which two teams of eleven players try to send a ball into the goal of the opposing side without using their arms or hands

Examples of soccer

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Consider another case involving a soccer team with infinitely many players.
The communication between the soccer robot and host computer is via wireless communication.
During the first season after these events, expressions of national protest were extremely rare on the soccer bleachers.
Offense is not orchestrated as in soccer where one player passes to another to collectively score a goal.
But soccer's popularity was based on more than its playing.
In light of this, we need to reconsider the above assessments of the infinite soccer team.
Like soccer stars, or better, opera divas, architects gather world followings, which set them up for a global practice.
To skip the chorus rehearsal or the soccer practice is to miss out on the enjoyment of singing or playing.
Thus, have the changes in tactics and physical ability of the players enhanced the game of soccer?
These changes in the rules of basketball and soccer may be sensible responses to "natural" enhancements.
In fact, rugby of whatever code occupied a distant second place compared to the popularity of soccer with troops on active service.
Note that, due to data sparseness, all of these words, though related with soccer have less probability when compared to stem-based and noun-based models.
In the center there is a small store, a school for primary and secondary grades, and a soccer field.
My having a series of soccer games ahead of me does not affect my nearly complete immersion in this current soccer game.
Two rewards are used in the soccer playing robots.
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Collocations withsoccer

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professional soccer
Professionalsoccer managers send their sons there to be trained.
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