51.   Rothenberg assured America that professional soccer was here to stay.

52.   Six years after moving from Ghana to take up an offer to play professional soccer, he has a full residency permit and a white Belgian wife.

53.   Since then, professional soccer teams have seldom had control of stadiums in the United States, almost insuring their demise.

54.   Soccer player Martha West of Fort Worth, who will play next fall at Stanford, dreams of the chance to play professional soccer after college.

55.   Some said they looked forward to luring a professional soccer team to Seattle.

56.   Tajah plans to be a professional soccer player, but not before she attends Duke University.

57.   Ted Eck describes his professional soccer career as a gypsy existence.

58.   That history touches everything, from San Diego State to professional soccer to the Super Bowl.

59.   The designated suicide bomber, Trabelsi, had a disappointing career as a professional soccer player in Germany, often not training and eventually squandering his chances.

60.   The MetroStars are shouldering the pressure of re-establishing professional soccer in a highly sophisticated region.