1.   And the one team the Koreans feel they can beat is the Americans, whose own soccer history is unremarkable.

2.   Because it looks as if the most important player in U.S. soccer history has been blackballed.

3.   But this time, Wynalda, among the most celebrated players in U.S. soccer history, will be trying to make a different kind of statement.

4.   Croatia and Germany enjoy a complicated relationship and a brief, but ill-tempered, soccer history.

5.   Eric Wynalda established himself as the top goal scorer in American soccer history on Sunday in the third-place match at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

6.   In the meantime, he and his teammates are having one of the greatest experiences in U.S. soccer history.

7.   Now, Lilly has them beaming with pride again, as she is set to further etch her name into American soccer history.

8.   Palmeiras is ranked as the second-best team in Brazilian soccer history, behind Flamengo.

9.   Soccermania has swept both Korea and Japan, and, in a break for more infamous soccer history, there has been very little violence by fans.

10.   Some of the most productive scorers in soccer history would just as soon inspect the light stanchions or the clumps of grass when the call goes out for volunteers.