College recruiting in the soccer world can be a brutal business, but the recruiters and the schools they represent are consistently and diligently scouring the nation for the top high school talent. Like any recruiting, it has catapulted from a process to a full on business. Colleges want the best talent and they hire the best recruiters to ensure that they do.
The art of recruiting for college soccer is as involved and complicated as the professional leagues; but with a twist. Once a player achieves a ‘status’ there are far more facets involved. College soccer recruiting has one distinct advantage in that they can access players that are eager to enter the sports world and are not involved in all of the agents and legal-eze of the professional status.
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Charleston South, Carolina has been heralded as the best mannered, most polite, sexiest and most friendly city in the United States. Charleston has indeed earned these awards, which is a high honor tribute to the people, considering all that they have been through. Today’s Charleston is a diverse metropolis, offering history, the arts and their incredible hospitality. A variety of sports games are popular in Charleston and they are home to many stadiums and fields for soccer, baseball, football, rugby, basketball and volleyball. Soccer scoreboards are always lit with the results of the highly attended games at Arena City Soccer.
Preparing for the 2010 FIFA Cup in South Africa was a monumental undertaking. While we viewed the elaborate stadiums and the phenomenal electronic scoreboards, we didn’t have a clue at the incredible amount of work that went into these gala events.
In 1928 the Owls of Temple University had a new home stadium in a West Oak Lane area of Philadelphia on 32 acres.Temple Stadium was the pride of the football team with the ability to house and seat over 20,000 roaring fans. When the mobile seating was added, it expanded the fan size to over 34,000. The design included a football stadium at the far end and the baseball/softball diamonds on the other end of the site. All stadiums at the time used a natural grass field, and Temple Stadium was no exception.
At the start of the English Premier League this season, everybody expected players like Rooney, Fabregas, Drogba and the all other big names to be the big performers over the season, however nobody expected the players (in this article) to make such an impact this season. In a soccer scoreboards feature, I have looked at the top four unsung heroes of the 2010-2011season. 
