Youth soccer coach Pierre Hedji co-founded the club DCXI to give kids in Washington, D.C., a chance to learn the game, develop their skills and compete, just as he did when he was a kid growing up ...

In Montgomery, Texas, two boys were passing a soccer ball around when suddenly some other players entered the fray. Watch the hilarious moment two emus join these kids’ soccer game.

Low-tech toys are a dying breed, but the Soccer Bot wants to try and keep them alive, and it does a fair job at it, but mostly for very young kids, not so much older kids.

That's where the soccer program and its coaches, who are more like mentors to the kids, come in, he said. "Kids will tell you: 'Siyat saved us. The program saved us,'" he said.