Goal in soccer ground — noise rising! (9)
I believe the answer is:
crescendo
'noise rising' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'goal in soccer ground' is the wordplay.
'goal' becomes 'end' (both can mean a purpose).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ground' is an anagram indicator ('grind' the letters into a new form).
'soccer' anagrammed gives 'cresco'.
'end' going within 'cresco' is 'CRESCENDO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for crescendo that I've seen before include "Gradual increase in volume" , "Volume getting larger" , "climax" , "Increase of volume in music" , "Rising noise" .)