Editing Soccer

[[File:Soccer - The Cartridge Family.png|250px|thumb|Soccer in action]]
'''Soccer''' is quite a popular sport played and watched in [[Springfield]].

== History ==
[[File:BartFcBarcelona.jpg|thumb|Bart playing soccer]]
[[Bart]] sat alone in the rain for hours after [[Homer]] failed to pick him up from soccer practice.<ref>"[[Brother from the Same Planet]]"</ref>

The [[Simpson family]] went to watch a match in Springfield between [[Mexico]] and [[Portugal]].<ref>"[[The Cartridge Family]]"</ref>

One of the trailers the family had to sit through waiting for [[Shenani-Goats!|Shenani-Goats]] to start was for [[Soccer Mummy|a family movie]] about a mummy who is brought back from the dead to play for a boy named Justin's soccer team, teaching him to believe in himself in the process.<ref>"[[Jaws Wired Shut]]"</ref>

Homer was once the referee for [[Lisa]]'s matches. Lisa watched a DVD of a World Cup game involving [[Brazil]]. The game got extremely violent and it was said that a [[Virgin Mary statue|statue of the Virgin Mary]] came to life and beat the holy snot out of the players. {{Ch|Ronaldo}} is a famous Soccer player who Homer has met.<ref>"[[Marge Gamer]]"</ref>

Lisa later gave a speech (for a contest at [[Springfield Elementary School|school]]) in which she praised Homer for his honesty and integrity as a soccer referee. A video of her speech went viral on the Internet, which led to FIFA officials recruiting Homer to referee at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<ref>"[[You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee]]"</ref> . He gave [[El Divo]] a yellow card during the final.

== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Jaws Wired Shut}}
*{{ep|Blame It on Lisa}}
*{{ep|'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|The Regina Monologues|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Smart and Smarter}}
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|See Homer Run|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Bart Has Two Mommies|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Marge Gamer}}
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*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather|(Celtic F.C. scarf)}}
*{{ep|Four Great Women and a Manicure|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Million Dollar Maybe|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|Holidays of Future Passed}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII}}
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool|([[West Ham United]] banner)}}
*{{ep|Whiskey Business|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee}}
*{{bon|Grrrl-Whirl}}
*{{bon|Brit Simpson!}}
*{{ad|Nike: Write the Future}}
*{{Twitterpage|HomerJSimpson|HomerJSimpson|(mentioned)}}
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== References ==
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[[Category:Sports]]