Soccer
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Peruvian Goalkeeper Makes Not One, But Two Insane Saves in a Row (Video)
When a player on your favorite team exercises poor judgment or makes a major blunder, heartburn and hairpulling is often the result. However, every once in a while a boneheaded play actually sets up something truly remarkable. And that’s what we have for you here. During a recent match between Peru and Uruguay at the [...]
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Jose Mourinho Loses It After Cristiano Ronaldo’s Dive Goes Uncalled (Video)
Anyone who follows soccer even a little bit knows that Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest sports floppers in the world today. As talented and electrifying as the guy can be, all you have to do is look at him funny and he’ll fall over and grab his shins. Well, guess what? The referees? [...]
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Referees Brutally Attacked During Amateur Soccer Game in Chile (Video)
It’s been a while since we brought you a story about fans and players brutally attacking a referee at a soccer game. Unfortunately, given the nature of soccer fans in certain parts of the world, by “a while” I mean only about five weeks. In any case, the story we have for you today is [...]
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Brazilian Prostitutes Are Getting Ready for the World Cup by Learning English
Prostitution is legal in Brazil, as it is in many western nations. However, unlike some other countries, where certain laws have been enacted to keep prostitution very discreet and secretive, in Brazil the government almost encourages it by providing a number of helpful resources for prostitutes. For a while, the government even had a website [...]
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Cristiano Ronaldo Responds To Child’s Question With Douchebag Answer (Video)
Yesterday in Zurich, Switzerland, FIFA held a glitzy ceremony to hand out the prestigious Ballon d’Or award, which is given to the male soccer player deemed best in the world by coaches and journalists. The winner? Lionel Messi, of course. But that wasn’t the only award handed out yesterday. FIFA also named its female Player [...]
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Fabrice Muamba Lights Up Dance Floor On ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Christmas Special (Video)
He’s back! Nine months ago , footballer Fabrice Muamba collapsed and suffered a terrifying heart attack during a televised FA Cup match between his Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur. The cardiac arrest episode was a scary one, as Muamba’s heart stopped beating for close to an hour. Thankfully, he’s okay now, though the 24-year-old’s promising [...]
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Amazing Goal at Charity Soccer Game Proves Zinedine Zidane Still Has It (Video)
To people who only casually follow soccer, Zinedine Zidane is almost certainly best-known as “that guy who headbutted that other guy in the Final of the 2006 World Cup.” However, to serious soccer fans, the Algerian-born Frenchman is known as arguably the best player of his generation and the guy who led France to their [...]
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Brazil’s Falcao Scores Ridiculous Futsal Goal (Video)
Futsal is a version of soccer played on a smaller field with fewer players, usually indoors. Though it’s not really that popular in North America, it is popular recreationally throughout the rest of the soccer-loving world. And of course, in soccer-mad Brazil they even have a pretty popular professional futsal league. The greatest superstar of [...]
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Is This the Worst Free Kick Ever? (Video)
In recent months we have seen some pretty terrible penalty kicks. There was the terrible one by Jonathan Soriano of Red Bull Salzberg in Austria. And there was that equally terrible one by Brazilian superstar Neymar. However, while these awful shots must have been extremely embarrassing to the players who took them, they at least [...]
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Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere Receives an Epic Nutshot (GIF + Video)
An epic sports nutshot is a paradox: it makes you cringe and squirm in your seat, and yet at the same time you simply cannot look away. Whether it’s a guy sliding crotch-first into a goal post, a 100 mph tennis ball popping a guy in the family jewels, or a football slipping through a [...]
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Fan Runs Onto Field to Give Lionel Messi a Hug (Video)
Pro athletes are usually a little uncomfortable when fans invade the playing field. After all, that goalie in England got socked in the face by some drunken idiot, and of course, Monica Seles got stabbed by a Stefi Graf fan in Germany back in 1993. So you never know if the fans are there to have [...]
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Boca Juniors Fans Rioted Yesterday in Buenos Aires…Just for the Hell of It (Video)
Back in the day, the main job of South American riot police used to be squashing Marxist demonstrations against heavy-handed oligarchic dictators. These days, however, I think South American riot police only exist to deal with soccer riots. After all, on Wednesday alone there was not one, but two major soccer-related incidents to which riot [...]
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Tigre Abandon Copa Sudamericana Match After Police Threaten Them with Guns (Video)
The 2012 Copa Sudamericana got off to a pretty rocky start last week. This week things got worse. Last Thursday we told you how two players got ejected just 13 minutes into the first leg of the prestigious South American club championship—one from São Paulo FC for almost kicking a guy in the nads, the [...]
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Celtic Fan Hit in the Face with Soccer Ball (Video)
Usually you assume that if fans at a soccer game are going to face any danger, it will come from the grandstands rather than the field. After all, unlike baseball, where foul balls and line dives are scattered up to 300 feet from home plate in any direction, there are only so many places in [...]
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Manchester City Fans Threw Coins at Man U’s Rio Ferdinand (Video)
The Manchester Derby between Manchester United and Manchester City has been around since 1881, but the rivalry has never been more fierce. Last year the two EPL clubs duked it out all season long for the League Championship, and even then it still came down to the final day of the season with City staging [...]
