FREELAND, MI -- Freeland and Saginaw Heritage faced off in a girls soccer matchup on Wednesday ... The physicality on the field was captured in these images by MLive multimedia specialist Jake ...

It was No. 1 vs No. 2 between the Red Devils and Yellowjackets in a regional semifinal on Tuesday at Country Day.

The green of a soccer field is not a precise shade. It is too vivid to be olive, too dark to be mint, too full to be emerald, too verdant to be sea. Nor is it constant. It sparkles in sunlight ...

The Brazilian word for pickup soccer — "pelada ... in Europe started on the makeshift fields of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Looking through these photos gives you the flavor of Brazil.