1.   He speaks fluent English and was an avid soccer and tennis player until a back injury forced him to turn to swimming.

2.   Her father, an avid soccer fan, died exactly seven weeks earlier.

3.   John is also noted for raising millions of dollars for charities to fight AIDS, and he is an avid soccer supporter.

4.   The Examiner story was prompted by a complaint by Marcello Rossetti, an avid soccer fan who orchestrated an anti-English-only e-mail campaign against AOL.

5.   Trained as an accountant, Luis was an avid soccer player.

6.   An avid soccer fan, Kissinger regularly asked the German Foreign Ministry to keep him up to date on German soccer teams, Kinkel said.

7.   King Jigme Singhe Wangchuk himself is an avid soccer fan.

8.   Linda, whose husband John is the vicar at Sowerby, North Yorkshire, is an avid soccer fan and was looking forward to the World Cup.

9.   Many Vietnamese are avid soccer fans, although the country has never made it to the World Cup finals.

10.   Shaker, an avid soccer fan, grimly concedes that he could never bomb a soccer stadium, even if it was full of Zionists.