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World Cup Soccer Stadiums To Have Special Section For Obese Fans

Joe Student — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:30:10 +0000

Big soccer fans? Bigger seats. When soccer's World Cup heads to Brazil in 2014, the arenas used in hosting the games that determine soccer's world champion will be equipped with specially designed seats designated for obese

MLS Team To Put All of Its Season Ticket Holders' Names on Jerseys

Joe Student — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:49:39 +0000

Season ticket holders often feel like they are a part of the team. One Major League Soccer club is validating that feeling by putting the names of season ticket holders onto its primary uniform (called kits in soccer).

The MLS Colorado Rapids will use the names of all 1,451 fans who are season ticket holders in tiny print on its primary kit. The burgund

5 Things to Know About Soccer to Trick People Into Thinking You Know Something About Soccer

Roberto Curtis — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:47:09 +0000

The pace of the match is too slow. A nil nil match can sometimes be considered a terrific result. Players dive better than Olympic swimmers. Bunch of pansies if you ask me. It’s the least watched major sport in the United States and sure, criticisms abound, but one thing is indisputable. Soccer is the world’s [...]

Minnesota High School Soccer Game Ends in Epic Brawl

Ben Chew — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:38:23 +0000

Last week, a Minnesota high school soccer match between Totino-Grace and Prairie Seeds Academy was supposed to decide who would move on in the State Class A tournament, but instead, the game was marred by an epic brawl. In the final seconds of the game with Prairie Seeds up 2-1, a Prairie Seeds forward got [...]

Watch This Female Soccer Player Knee an Opponent In the Face — On Purpose

Ben Chew — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:30:24 +0000

In the heat of athletic competition, high school athletes can lose their cool from time to time. That’s exactly what happened to one high school soccer player in Utah who decided to knee her opponent right in the face. During a recent match between East High and Woods Cross, East High’s Petiola Manu was battling [...]

Dad's Soccer Practice With Son Goes Terribly Wrong

Emerald Catron — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:13:06 +0000

We’re having a bit of an ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ day here. First there was the incredibly painful faceplant compilation, and now we’ve got this kid getting smacked right in the face with a soccer ball by his dad. It’s not clear if dad’s intention was to teach the kid how to be a goalie [...]

Soccer Player Makes Diving Save, Slides Groin-First Into Goalpost

Ben Chew — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:00:33 +0000

There are times in sports where giving that little bit of extra effort is a good thing but don’t tell that to one Polish soccer player who took one for the team while saving a goal. Polish defender Lukasz Piszczek of the reigning German Bundesliga champion Borussia Dortmund was the last line of defense during [...]

Ukrainian Soccer Fan Attempts to Choke Ref During Match

Ben Chew — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:00:27 +0000

There are plenty of sports fan who would love to attack an umpire or an official but most wouldn’t go through with it if presented the opportunity. However, one Ukrainian soccer fan attending the Chernomorets/FC Metalist match this week decided to attack a linesman and nearly strangled him to death. As the referees gathered together [...]

Kid Gets Unneeded Help From Mom[VIDEO]

Steve Kelly — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:31:25 +0000

So imagine you are out in the park on a bring sunny day and you are just enjoying the day and kicking the soccer ball around and having a blast, when mom decides the she wants to give you some help and play too. Well that is just what happened to this little guy in the video and with mom's unneeded help there is a hilarious outcome.

Homecoming Queen Brianna Amat Nails Winning Field Goal [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:24:12 +0000

Eighteen-year-old Brianna Amat of Pinckney, Michigan is a former soccer player who found her stellar kicking skills were better utilized on the varsity football team.

During Friday night’s game, she was called from the locker room at half-time to accept a crown. The popular senior had been voted Pinckney High School’s homecoming queen.

Soccer Star Eren Derdiyok Scores One-of-a-Kind Bicycle Kick [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:27:23 +0000

Eren Derdiyok, a striker for the Leverkusen soccer team, pulled off a tricky bicycle kick in one of the most unique and exciting plays in soccer. In soccer, a bicycle kick is accomplished by the player leaping backwards or sideways and then kicking the ball while mid-air. Eren Derdiyok managed to make the always impressive move even more [...]

Squirrel Rushes the Field at Women's Soccer Game [VIDEO]

Chris Illuminati — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:13:06 +0000

A squirrel ran onto the field at a women’s soccer match this weekend in what was either an attempt to either make the team or ask one of the women out on a date. If it’s the former, he didn’t help his cause by running around in circles and then laying down. If it was the latter, well he was darn adorable, so one of the ladies might say yes.

Elderly Soccer Fan Attacks Ref With His Scooter [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:05:57 +0000

The legendary passion of the European soccer fan isn’t just for the young, apparently.

This aged spectator at a Dutch Second Division (minor league) match was so irate that the ref had showed the home team six yellow cards in a four-to-three loss that he stormed the pitch with his mobility scooter and then twice rammed into the offending official. Checking out the low-speed assault below.

Shapely Sideline Reporter Asks Soccer Player to Autograph Her Butt [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:09:08 +0000

Viviana Angulo, a sideline reporter in Costa Rica, ended her interview with soccer player Wilson Munoz by dropping trou, turning around, and asking Munoz to autograph her thonged-bottom. Munoz refused, the prude, and instead sent her on her way with a chivalrous peck on the cheek. Check out the video that has Joe Namath seriously considering a [...]

Real Madrid Soccer Club Signs 7-Year-Old Boy

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:34:58 +0000

We’ve all heard stories about how athletes are recruited at younger and younger ages by college teams, but Real Madrid, the professional and well-known Spanish soccer club, has gone a step beyond that.

The team has signed a seven-year-old boy from Argentina. That’s right — he’s seven.

Craziest (Australian) Football Catch Ever? [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:02:26 +0000

In American football, climbing up on your opponent’s shoulders to make a catch will get you flagged. In Australian football, the move, executed by player Andrew Walker, is being lauded as the play of the year.

Walker, of the Carlton Football Club, and his piggy-back ride of catch have to be seen to be believed — check out the clip below: