Goals all over the world
The 2014 World Cup starts on June 12 in Brazil and fans around the globe are gearing up for the big tournament. But soccer lovers are not only preparing to watch the world’s best professional players battle it out on the pitch; they are also out there kicking a ball about themselves.
Reuters photographers in countries from China to the Czech Republic went out to capture images of goalposts used to practice the 'beautiful game'.
People play soccer at dusk on a field in Bucharest.
A cow stands in front of soccer goalposts in Monickendam.
Sheep graze in front of a soccer goal in Shuto Orizari shantytown.
Goalposts stand on a dusty pitch in Rabat.
A man leaps for a ball at a public soccer pitch in Berlin.
A man trains in the town of Divnogorsk outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Boys play soccer in a schoolyard in Minsk.
A soccer field is flooded by the waters of the Paraguay River in Asuncion.
A cathedral is seen through the netting of a goal in Locorotondo.
Bedouin children play soccer at the village of al-Sira, one of many ramshackle Bedouin Arab communities in the Negev desert.
A boy gestures while playing cricket near a soccer goalpost in the slums of Karachi.
Boys stand next to a goal in Sayidka, southern Mogadishu.
Children practice their soccer skills in front of goalposts at Tunks Park.
A kite flies above a goal at a playing field on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.
A woman walking with her dog is seen through a goal by the Arakawa River in Tokyo.
A boy jumps to save a goal at Shivaji Park in Mumbai.
A man plays soccer with migrant workers from Bangladesh and India, near the workers' dormitory.
A soccer goal stands in a sports field in Somerville, Massachusetts.
A teenager plays football in front of a goal at a defunct garbage dump in Tondo City, Metro Manila.
Players for "The Tuesdays" pose in a soccer goal at a training ground in south London.
A goal is pictured in the village of Sasek, northeastern Poland.
A makeshift goal is seen in Molweni, northwest of Durban.
The Casa de las Americas building rises up behind a soccer goal in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana.
Men practice at a pitch in Juba.
A goal stands amid overgrown grass in Zagreb's downtown.
A religious sculpture is seen through a goal in Derquie, greater Buenos Aires.
A goal stands at a playground in Kamnik.
A Swiss International Air Lines jet flies over a pitch on its way to land at Zurich Airport.
Goalposts are pictured in a prison in Bellechasse.
A goal is seen at Luwan sport centre in downtown Shanghai.
A goal stands in an abandoned soccer field on the outskirts of Prague.
In a photograph taken using long exposure, a goal is illuminated by a flashlight at the Harpur's Hill housing estate in the town of Coleraine.
A goal stands at the Pescadores beach in Chorrillos, Lima.
A goal is seen in front of tower blocks in Moscow's Konkovo district.
The Toronto skyline is seen through a goal.
Goalposts are seen at night on the outskirts of Ronda, near Malaga.
A goal is left half buried after a major flood in Bosnia.
A goal stands in Hong Kong.
A goal stands in the Independencia neighbourhood of Monterrey.
Dogs walk past goals on a foggy morning in Lipjljan, Kosovo.
A goal is seen by the old Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua, which was damaged by an earthquake in 1972.
