A lot of you probably think beach soccer is a wannabe sport for wannabe athletes.
I’m here to tell you that you are wrong.
First of all, the sport relies on bicycle kicks and volleys for its scoring, which means that goals that might happen once every couple of weeks in “grass-ball” happen multiple times per game in beach soccer. Four words: bicycle kick hat-trick; that’s a real thing.
It is my belief that one of the major difficulties Americans have with soccer is that they don’t understand how the different leagues and tournaments work.
Generally, Americans understand that the best soccer leagues are in Europe and can grasp the promotion/relegation system the leagues use, where the best teams from a league get promoted to a better league and the worst get relegated to a lesser one.
It is hard to find the net worth of Cristiano Ronaldo. Specifically, it is hard to know if you have found the correct net worth of Cristiano Ronaldo. The values spat at you from a simple Google search range from $160 million to $310 million.
Ever wondered how much international superstars make after signing for MLS teams?
I hope to one day be as great as Alfredo Di Stefano. That in and of itself is nothing unique or special — many hope to be as great as he was — what’s special is how much I mean it.
I want to one day be able to be the man that can look into Cristiano Ronaldo’s eyes and know that there is mutual respect in that gaze, that gives Zinedine Zidane his Real Madrid shirt, that makes a club like Real Madrid the legend that it is today.