Iran re-emerged as a soccer power by winning the Asian Games in 1990.
While Mexico is emerging as a regional soccer power, many questions remain about the strength of the United States team.
Fifty years from now, Spanish will be our language and this country will be a soccer power.
The U.S. simply isn't a soccer power, at least not yet.
The team has been renowned enough as a soccer power to receive a sponsorship from Nike.
It has been a World Cup of precious few surprises: the traditional soccer powers have had their way.
We may not be a world-class soccer power yet, but we've got some hotel thieves who can carry a master key with the best of them.
Perhaps, but there may not be a team more feared by the traditional soccer powers than Norway.
South Korea was playing out a fantasy; Germany is one of the world's soccer powers.
Freddy became a citizen last year, to the chagrin of the world's major soccer powers.