1.   Despite his low-key approach, Sanchez takes soccer seriously.

2.   How seriously do the Brits take soccer?

3.   Suddenly, a country that has always taken its soccer with insouciance developed an amour fou, a mad love, for Les Bleus.

4.   After all it took soccer a long time before they took the World Cup to a non-traditional venue like America.

5.   But El Salvador takes its soccer very seriously.

6.   English fans simply take their soccer seriously.

7.   In both countries, soccer is taken extremely seriously, with many equating victories on the field to those on a battlefield.

8.   In both countries, soccer is taken extremely seriously, with many equating the pitch with a battlefield.

9.   IOC sports director Gilbert Felli said he was aware that some FIFA officials have talked about taking soccer out of the Olympics.

10.   He took up soccer later, and made the game his primary focus when he left high school.