Tag Archives: euro 2012
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Check Out This Figurine Commemorating Mario Balotelli’s Shirtless Flex Celebration At Euro 2012 (Pic and GIF)
Italian striker Mario Balotelli is a controversial player in the world of soccer. While with Inter Milan, he was accused by coach José Mourinho of phoning it in at practice and not playing up to his potential. Then he made the Inter fans go apesh*t when he made a television appearance wearing an AC Milan [...]
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Iker Casillas Asked Refs To End The Game Out Of Respect For Italy At Euro 2012 Final (Video)
Anyone who has had the opportunity to watch “La Roja” play soccer over the last 5 years realizes that they are, without a doubt, one of the greatest soccer teams in the history of the game. And given the way human nature seems to work—especially in the world of sports, which has the tendency to [...]
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The 11 Greatest National Soccer Teams Of All Time
With their resounding 4-0 win over Italy yesterday in the finals of the 2012 UEFA European Championship—aka Euro 2012—Spain wrote itself into the history books as one of the greatest national soccer squads of all time. Or at least, that’s what all the soccer experts are saying. Personally, I don’t take the hyperbole of pundits [...]
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Fan Joins Spanish Soccer Players Celebrating Their Euro 2012 Victory Yesterday (GIF)
Yesterday, Spain pummeled Italy 4-0 to win their second consecutive European Championship. And when you add these feats from 2008 and 2012 to their victory at the 2010 World Cup, that makes this group of Spaniards one of the best soccer teams of all time. Obviously, this has every Spaniard on the planet pretty damned [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 7/1/12 — Spain
We rarely award “Stat Line of the Night” honors to an entire team. Then again, we rarely see an entire team put forth a performance as great as the one we witnessed from the Spanish men’s national soccer team during their 2012 Euro final against Italy at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine yesterday. Anyone [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 6/28/12 — Mario Balotelli
Mario Balotelli is always capable of making an impact on the match every time he steps on the pitch. The only question is whether that impact is going to be one that hurts or helps his team. During yesterday’s Euro 2012 semifinal match against Germany, the Italian striker had a large impact on the game, [...]
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Portugal’s Fabio Coentrao Gets Yellow Card For Grabbing Crotch (Video)
In soccer, there are several rules that players have to abide by: No touching the ball with your hands, no dangerous slide-tackling, and no grabbing your crotch. Portugal’s Fabio Coentrao learned this the hard way in a recent game after he broke the latter rule in a gesture towards the Spanish bench during their Euro [...]
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Cristiano Ronaldo Thinks Spain’s Victory Over Portugal Was An “Injustice” (GIF)
Last night at the Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Ukraine, Portugal gave Spain everything they had during their semifinal match at the 2012 UEFA European Football Championships. They nearly equaled them in total attempts on goal (11-10 in favor of Spain) and corner kicks (7-6 for Spain), and they reduced a Spanish team that entered the [...]
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How Stupid Should Gordon “Flash” Watson Feel Right About Now? (Video)
Later on today, Italy will square off against Germany in the second semi-final match at the 2012 UEFA European Football Championships. Many probably figured the Germans (who entered the tournament as favorites) and the Italians (whose four World Cup titles rank second only to Brazil’s five) would make it to this point in the tournament, [...]
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Did France’s Jeremy Menez Try To Hit Sexy Spanish Reporter Sara Carbonero With A Soccer Ball? (Video)
It seems as though there haven’t been enough instances of bad behavior from fans at the Euro 2012 over the past week, so now people are stretching to find some bad behavior from the players in instances where it may be a bit ambiguous. It happened last week when the Swedish National team were caught [...]
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Italy’s Mario Balotelli Prepars For Euro Semi-Final By Getting His Ears Flicked (Video)
Practically every soccer team at every level across the world plays “keep-ups,” or “kick-ups,” or whatever you choose to call it. However, not all of them play by the same rules. In Sweden, they refer to it as “Butts Up,” as the player responsible for allowing the ball to hit the ground is penalized by [...]
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English Soccer Fans Tear Down A Tree In Kiev Before Euro 2012 Quarter-Final Match (Video)
Thanks to a history of hooliganism, English soccer fans aren’t exactly known for being a peaceful, well-behaved bunch. And that somewhat tarnished reputation took another hit during the 2012 UEFA European Football Championships. It all went down before England’s quarter-final match against Italy, as a massive group of English fans decided to bring down a tree [...]
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Check Out This Compilation Of Euro 2012 Bloopers (Video)
Well, the field at Euro 2012 has been whittled down to just four teams. On Wednesday, Portugal and Spain will fight for Iberian supremacy in one semifinal. Then on Thursday, Germany and Italy will square off in the other semifinal. Thus far, this has been one of the more entertaining sporting events in years. No, [...]
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English Soccer Fan Tries The Old “Dong Distraction Trick” At Euro, Comes Up Short (Pic)
Fans can do a lot to give their team an edge. That’s why home field advantage is so important in pretty much every pro sport there is. Of course, most of the time, this just means cheering really, really loudly. But in some sports, fans can get right into the opponents’ faces and try to [...]
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Andrea Pirlo’s Cheeky Penalty Kick That Demoralized England And Revitalized Italy (Video & GIF)
With only one spot in the Euro 2012 semi-finals still up for grabs, England and Italy took the field in Kiev, Ukraine on Sunday during their quarter-final match-up for a chance to secure that final spot. After 90 minutes of regulation and 30 minutes of extra time, most soccer experts would have told you that [...]
