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This Is Real Madrid's Best Chance To Drive A Knife Into Barcelona's Heart
It’s El Clásico time again, which means it’s time for the sports world’s fiercest rivals, Real Madrid and Barcelona, to square off in the Most Important Soccer Game in All of Human History—or at least the biggest one since the last time the two met. While the titanic stakes of this game can sometime...
English Police Are Investigating Hundreds Of Claims Of Sexual Abuse In Soccer
Seventeen different police forces are investigating sex abuse allegations in English youth soccer, with at least 350 people having come forward to allege crimes, reports The Guardian. As just one example, the Greater Manchester police say they have received reports from 35 alleged victims, and have ...
These Ecstatic Little Leicester City Fans Are Painfully Adorable
Oh man, this is so freaking cute I almost feel like puking....
Colombian Fans Come Out In Force To Pay Tribute To Chapecoense After Plane Crash
The Copa Sudamericana final was supposed to be tonight in Medellin, but the game was called off shortly after Brazilian club Chapecoense’s flight went down outside the city. Since the crash, the soccer world has offered tributes to the club, with their fellow Brazilian first division sides even offe...
Keeper Scores Amazing, Last-Second Bicycle Kick, Caps It With Even Better Celebration
Goalkeeper goals are always special for the simple fact that it’s always great when a goalkeeper scores. But Baroka FC keeper Oscarine Masuluke’s stoppage-time equalizer that he knocked in with a crazy overhead kick, coupled with his crotch-grabbing celebration, deserves a spot in the goalie goal ha...
The English Soccer Sexual Abuse Scandal Is Growing Into A Colossal Nightmare
Andy Woodward, a former defender for fourth-tier English soccer team Crewe Alexandra, told The Guardian two weeks ago about the repeated sexual abuse he had suffered at the hands of convicted pedophile Barry Bennell, who was a Crewe youth coach in the 1980s and 1990s. Since then Bennell has been cha...
Brazilian Soccer Clubs Offer Extensive Support To Chapecoense After Tragic Plane Crash
Brazilian first division club Chapecoense was flying to Medellin last night when their plane went down outside the city, killing 71 of the 77 passengers. The club was flying to Medellin to play Atletico Nacional in the Copa Sudamericana final....
Bob Bradley Becomes First American Manager To Win Premier League Game
With a 5-4 Swansea City victory over Crystal Palace, Bob Bradley became the first American manager to win a game in the Premier League....
MLS Playoff Game Delayed Over Turf Painting Error
The Montreal Impact are hosting their Canadian brethren Toronto FC tonight for the first leg of the Eastern Conference Championship, but the scheduled 8:00 p.m. EST kickoff has been delayed after the grounds crew at Montreal’s stadium had to repaint the 18-yard box lines. Players had already complet...
Borussia Dortmund And Legia Warsaw Combined To Score A Zillion Goals Today
Legia Warsaw played Borussia Dortmund in a Champions League match today. Each team scored multiple times. Here is one of the goals scored in the game today:...
U.S. Soccer Announces Bruce Arena As New USMNT Manager
Just a day after firing Jurgen Klinsmann, U.S. Soccer has already come to an agreement with his successor, and it’s exactly who everyone knew it would be. Bruce Arena is once again the USMNT manager....
This Is Literally The Worst Miss In Soccer History
We’ve brought you a whole bunch of terrible misses over the years, and while all of them were affronts to the notion of soccer as an elegant, highly skilled sport, they were also, when looked at with an exceedingly sympathetic eye, at least sort of understandable. The above miss, in some Serbian low...
I Should Coach The USMNT
By now you know that U.S. Soccer has fired head coach Jurgen Klinnsman (immigrants losing their jobs already smdh) and will reportedly replace him with retread Bruce Arena, which is boring and lame. If people really want soccer to flourish here in the US, they need to stop trotting out these has-bee...
U.S. Soccer Fires USMNT Head Coach Jurgen Klinsmann
U.S. Soccer has fired United States Men’s National Team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann after a disappointing start to the final round of 2018 World Cup qualifying, the federation announced this afternoon. Klinsmann was also removed from his role as technical director. ...
Miami's Fox Station Aired An Infomercial For A Coffeemaker Instead Of This Match
Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 1-0 in today’s Bundesliga clash of titans, but despite Bayern’s helpful chart fans in Miami didn’t find the match on their local Fox station. WSVN, which regularly airs paid programming instead of Fox network coverage, decided more south Floridians wanted to watc...
Cristiano Ronaldo Gave A Truly Moving Speech After Winning Euro 2016
Literally nothing bad to say about this. Cristiano Ronaldo did a legitimately cool thing. I’m as shocked as you....
Why China Is Betting Big On The Premier League<em></em>
Premier League ratings are falling in England and the United States! The live sports rights bubble is bursting! The first of these is definitely true, and the second I believe to be true, but nonetheless Chinese streaming video company PPTV shelled out $700 million for Premier League TV rights, acco...
The Premier League Should Bring Back Standing Sections
The introduction of safe standing was on the agenda at a Premier League meeting today, and reports coming out of it were cautiously optimistic that it could be introduced to the Premier League in the not-so-distant future. That would be a great thing for both fans who attend games and those who watc...
Oh Hell Yeah Baby, The American Premier League Takeover Is Well Underway
“My seeds, run with his seeds, marry his seeds,” Ghostface once remarked, explaining the strategy by which an influx of money amongst a tight-knit group of individuals can be kept, collected, and grown into a sum that benefits the group for generations. He continued, “That’s how you keep Wu-Tang mon...
Team Of Bad Soccer Men Does All Sorts Of Bad Soccer Man Stuff
Meet the UMass Boston Beacons, who should more accurately be known as the UMass Boston Bad Soccer Men after their violent displays during this Division III tournament game against Haverford College....