101.   Clarke quit his job as a handyman to chase his dream of playing professional soccer.

102.   Colak told Star TV that he wanted to return to professional soccer as soon as possible.

103.   Dallas oilman Lamar Hunt had already invested money in a failed professional soccer team in his hometown.

104.   Defender Eric Dade is retiring from professional soccer, one week after the Kansas City Wizards acquired him from the Dallas Burn.

105.   Diego Maradona on Tuesday signed a contract to play for Boca Juniors until the end of the year, his fifth comeback to professional soccer in as many years.

106.   Egypt deported Sunday a Nigeria player on contract with a professional soccer team after blood tests showed he was HIV-positive.

107.   Fashanu was set to coach a new minor-league professional soccer team, the Maryland Mania, in the town of Columbia, Maryland and was living in Ellicott City.

108.   German soccer authorities Saturday forbid a CLT-UFA subsidiary from investing in more than one German professional soccer club for fear of influencing matches.

109.   He plays in both the U.S. and Mexican professional soccer leagues.

110.   He still lives in the Milan suburb where he was born and where he was a blue-collar worker before starting his professional soccer career.