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- noun soccer a variation of
soccer played on a smaller pitch, and with only five players in a team.
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Examples
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We pass the pink and blue Riverbank Arena, the hockey venue – hockey was one of the fastest selling sports – which has an acoustic wall for Paralympians, who'll play five-a-side football there with a ball that has a bell inside.
In Stratford's Olympic park, you can smell the ambition for London 2012 2012
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Nonetheless, he still has a fervent passion for the game, playing Sunday league football for Dryburgh Saints, as well as weekly five-a-side fixtures against other students.
xxHas a team ever been relegated from the same division two years in a row? | The Knowledge 2011
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Children are not left out, with the martyrs' story told by finger puppets in part of a packed programme that also has free running, circus skills and five-a-side football.
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Would he do the same to Djokovic, his friend since their early teens and with whom he played five-a-side before last year's crushing encounter?
Andy Murray earns chance to turn the tables against Novak Djokovic 2012
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The first goal was like something from five-a-side rather than like on an occasion like this.
Tony Pulis relishes Wembley return as Stoke thrash Bolton in FA Cup 2011
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Before replacing Roy Hodgson, however, Dalglish spent 18 months at the academy, where he would play five-a-side with those now coming through, and has returned frequently to remind the youngsters that he has not forgotten them.
Liverpool and Kenny Dalglish are planning to win something with kids | Andy Hunter 2011
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"As if England played Argentina at Wembley, went back the next week to play them at five-a-side, and then took them on at keepy-uppy."
Why it was all or nothing for Rory McIlroy at the Masters 2011
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The Italian made the startling admission that he had sensed his players' minds were not on the task ahead while watching the pre-match five-a-side warm-up at Wembley on Tuesday, and his fears were proved correct as the team laboured for long periods.
Fabio Capello decides that England's weak-minded players have to go 2011
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"We have just been loosening up, having a five-a-side and going over what we will be doing in the forthcoming game."
Rangers' Walter Smith calls for 'exceptional display' against Valencia Ewan Murray 2010
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As a kid I would hang out at a local five-a-side football pitch.
Constantino Rocca: La dolce vita for the man who tamed Tiger Woods Tom Kington 2010
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