Beach Soccer Championship

Famous quotes containing the words soccer championship, beach and/or soccer:

    “We want beans, not goals.”
    —Mexican steelworkers’ banner at opening ceremony of 1986 World Cup soccer championship.

    “The beach was crowded,
    people tossed like ripe corn,
    buttering themselves as they went
    and on the dunes thousands of crabs,
    moved their yellow eyes.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
    —British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)