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Adelaide goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic is 31 years old and has been around the block shopping for doughnuts a few times, so when 17-year-old Tyler Boyd of Wellington stepped up to take his penalty kick and tried that old stutter-step tactic, Galekovic guessed which way he was going – then guessed right again on the rebound… [Continue Reading]
The most watched advertisement video on YouTube in 2012 is for Nike Football [the European definition] depicting various soccer stars in anticipation of Euro 2012 earlier this year – the ad has been viewed over 21 million times with reports of red cards for faking carpal tunnel in Spain…
Lionel Messi is currently, arguably – and if you follow soccer, you know there are always arguments – the best player in the world. So naturally you would expect him to leap tall buildings in a single bound, stop trains and bullets and bullet trains with his foot and make shots like this…
The reign of Spain is mostly in pain. Spain won the last World Cup. “Ancient history”, said Japan. La Roja won the Euro 2012 last month. “Yawn”, said Honduras. Spain’s domination of soccer came to an abrupt and crashing halt in just the first few days of the 2012 Olympics in London as they were… [Continue Reading]
Spain won the last World Cup and, most recently, Euro 2012 but all Japan had to say about that was “could you pass the rice, please?” as the Japanese went out and calmly skunked the Spaniards, 1-0 in their first round match at the 2012 London Olympics. Japan’s Yuki Otsu scored in the first half… [Continue Reading]
Spain won its third consecutive Euro 2012 and you’d think they won something big like a Toyota Prius when all they did was beat Italy. Well, when we say they “beat” Italy, what we really mean to say is that they slapped, smacked, slugged and stomped Italy – they might have even spit on the… [Continue Reading]
Needing only to defeat – we can’t believe we’re saying this – Guatemala to secure first palce in their World Cup qualifying region , the USA men’s soccer were unable to find the magic frijoles that would give them the victory over perennial soccer powerhouse Guatemala, which came into the match ranked 85th in the… [Continue Reading]
Once again, with feeling. If American sports fans are ever going to be afflicted by soccer fever like the rest of the country, the men’s national team is going to have to start scoring goals at an alarming pace. More alarming than three against a collection of ants and Barbies that purports to be a… [Continue Reading]
American sports fans like scoring, and lots of it, from their national teams – and the U.S. men’s soccer team was in cahoots with Canada. To produce what? A scoreless draw. This, people, is why soccer has difficulty becoming overwhelmingly popular in the United States of America like it has virtually everywhere else. There is… [Continue Reading]
Hello? Anybody there on the pitch that can hang with us Brazilians for 90 minutes? Apparently not the USA. A week after muzzling 48th-ranked Scotland, 5-1 [with the Scots’ only goal coming on an own goal], the 29th-ranked USA men’s soccer team found out what it was like to play a Top Five team [Brazil... [Continue Reading]
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