1.   And sometimes in Italy, soccer becomes war, the old city-states reviving, Lombards fighting Ligurians, in sneakers and jeans.

2.   But John Williams, a sociologist at the University of Leicester, doubts that soccer will ever become a major sport in the United States.

3.   Last week, the NCAA announced that soccer has become the most popular college sport for women.

4.   Nigerians have long struggled with their potential, and soccer had become a metaphor for that struggle.

5.   Over the past three decades, though, soccer has become as suburban as lawn sprinklers.

6.   Soccer has become the national sport.

7.   Soccer quickly became the most popular sport in the world.

8.   Soccer will become the fifth professional sport.

9.   Soccer became an Olympic sport, too, opening another arena in which women can become Olympians.

10.   Soon, soccer would become his life.