{"offset" : "0" , "results" : [{"body" : "For many years, European soccer has looked east toward China, Hong Kong and Singapore hoping that the day would never dawn when its own sports were contaminated by match fixing on anything like the levels of Asia. Events in Bochum on Friday killed that hope. There, at police headquarters in the heart of the industrial Ruhr Valley, law enforcement" , "byline" : "By ROB HUGHES" , "date" : "20091123" , "title" : "GLOBAL SOCCER; Something Is Very Rotten in the State of Soccer" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/23\/sports\/soccer\/23iht-SOCCER.html"} , {"body" : "To the Sports Editor: Re “Those Soccer Plays, in Context,” Nov. 18: The New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert has not yet come to grips with her unsportsmanlike behavior. She tries to blame competitiveness and being a woman to explain her actions and the criticism of them. Every competitive athlete knows the rules and the standards" , "date" : "20091122" , "title" : "REACTION; Violent Plays Have No Gender Barriers" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/22\/sports\/22brainmail.html"} , {"body" : "“It cannot just be Marian and I,” Vinny Prospal said at practice on Friday, referring to how he and Marian Gaborik were doing almost all of the Rangers ’ scoring lately. But in the Rangers’ 3-2 loss to Florida on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, it was just Gaborik and Prospal all over again. Once more, it was not enough." , "byline" : "By JEFF Z. KLEIN" , "date" : "20091122" , "title" : "PANTHERS 3, RANGERS 2; Thin Attack Falls Short as Rangers Sink Deeper" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/22\/sports\/hockey\/22rangers.html"} , {"body" : "BOCHUM, Germany — European law-enforcement officials said Friday that they had arrested the leaders of a far-reaching gambling cartel that is thought to have conspired to influence the outcome of 200 soccer games in nine countries across the continent. Announcing that 17 people had been arrested — 15 in Germany and 2 in Switzerland —" , "byline" : "By ROB HUGHES and ERIC PFANNER" , "date" : "20091121" , "title" : "Raids Expose Soccer Fixing Across Europe" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/21\/sports\/soccer\/21fix.html"} , {"body" : "In the final analysis, we might just get away with clinging to the notion that the World Cup is still a sporting contest that is good for the world. It is a close call. On Wednesday night, the final curtain call after more than two years of more than 200 nations playing their hearts out to reach the 2010 tournament finals in South Africa, the last" , "byline" : "By ROB HUGHES" , "date" : "20091120" , "title" : "GLOBAL SOCCER; At World Cup Qualifiers, Praise for the Little Guys" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/20\/sports\/soccer\/20soccer.html"} , {"body" : "Uruguay reached the 2010 World Cup finals after a 1-1 draw at home in Montevideo against Costa Rica in the second leg of their South America\/Concacaf playoff on Wednesday. The Uruguayans, two-time World Cup champions, advanced by 2-1 on aggregate goals after their victory in the first leg in San José on Saturday. In Europe, Slovenia, Greece" , "byline" : "By REUTERS" , "date" : "20091119" , "title" : "WORLD CUP ROUNDUP; Draw Is Good Enough for Uruguay to Advance to Finals" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/19\/sports\/soccer\/19soccer.html"} , {"body" : "When the Swiss boys returned home from Africa on Tuesday as the champions of world youth soccer, they were met with civic pride and major questions about how many of them the nation can hold on to. It was the first time that Switzerland had qualified for the Under-17 World Cup. The boys won it. It was also the first time Switzerland had won a" , "byline" : "By ROB HUGHES" , "date" : "20091118" , "title" : "GLOBAL SOCCER; For Swiss Youth, the World Calls" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/18\/sports\/soccer\/18iht-SOCCER.html"} , {"body" : "The penultimate lap of the marathon of World Cup qualifying left little decided with just three certainties: Cameroon, Nigeria and New Zealand advanced to the last 32 in South Africa. For 12 other nations, vying for six remaining places, it goes down to the wire across three continents on Wednesday. And of those, it will be a blessed relief when" , "byline" : "By ROB HUGHES" , "date" : "20091116" , "title" : "GLOBAL SOCCER; With World at Stake, Far More Than a Game" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/16\/sports\/soccer\/16iht-SOCCER.html"} , {"body" : "New Zealand reached the World Cup for the first time since 1982, and Cameroon and Nigeria also qualified Saturday for next year's tournament in South Africa. Algeria was seconds from qualifying in Cairo, but Emad Meteab headed in a goal in the fifth minute of second-half injury time to give Egypt a 2-0 victory. The teams will play a tie-breaker" , "byline" : "By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS" , "date" : "20091115" , "title" : "ROUNDUP; New Zealand, Cameroon And Nigeria Claim Places" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/15\/sports\/soccer\/15soccer.html"} , {"body" : "Often, as I have passed through the main train station here in the German capital, I have seen the sad, lone figure of a soldier, heavy pack on his back, waiting for a train like the rest of us, but separated from the crowd by the uniform he wears. No one would stop to thank him for his service or to ask whether he had been deployed to Afghanistan." , "byline" : "By NICHOLAS KULISH" , "date" : "20091115" , "title" : "No Parade For Hans" , "url" : "http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/15\/weekinreview\/15kulish.html"}] , "tokens" : ["Bosnia"] , "total" : 12694}