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Mexico Are Definitely Going To The World Cup. Right?
For a few minutes, anyway, Mexico looked to be out of the World Cup. Last month, they lost away to Costa Rica on the final day of World Cup Qualifying, and Panama scored a late goal to take a 2-1 lead over the United States. If scores held, Panama would have moved on to a World Cup playoff. It didn'...
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Translated Neymar Interviews Are A Gift [Updated]
Barcelona forward Neymar's play has people calling him a genius, but if recent interviews are any indication, we may have been selling the guy short by limiting that descriptor to his athletic ability....
Goalkeeper Scores Last-Second, Game-Tying Bicycle Kick
In the last seconds of yesterday's match, down 0-1, fourth tier Spanish side UD Alcúdia sent keeper Barceló forward as an 11th attacker. To everyone's surprise, it totally worked. ...
Let's Celebrate The Least Efficient Scorer in The Premier League
The chart above shows the Premier Leaguers with the highest ratios of goals to shots on goal this season among those who've both scored and averaged two tries per league game. It seems like the sort of thing you could write quite a lot about, but then the more you think about it, the less clear it i...
Tiny Children Foul The Crap Out Of Each Other
This horribly shot video comes from halftime of today's Dublin County Gaelic Football final. Two young lads, having a kick. Then, around the 35-second mark, things start getting ugly....
Video: The History Of International Football Transfers In Sixty Seconds
The video above, by EyeSeeData.com's Mac Bryla, jams 133 years of international football transfers into very cool-looking visual. If you're interested in digging into the data a bit more you can check out the interactive version he made on his site, which lets you break down the transfers by country...
I Can't Believe Chicharito Just Missed This Open Goal
C'mon, son....
Nearly Eight Minutes Of Zlatan Ibrahimovic Scoring Amazing Goals
Here's a collection of some of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's most stunning goals from over the years. Though the stank face impulse will be strong, try to keep your eyes open for the whole video, they only get better....
Here's The Most Impressive Own Goal Of The Year So Far
Here is FC Schweinfurt midfielder Stefan Seufert attempting to dispossess 1860 München II just inside his own half. He does! (Mostly because the opposing midfielder bailed on the play.) And then Seufert scored a 60-yard rocket-strike own goal. ...
This Photo Of A Kid Making It Rain After Scoring Is Just Adorable
This is Eli. He is five. Eli just scored a goal in a youth soccer game, and because he's awesome, he celebrated it by making it rain. One day, maybe, your kid will be as cool as he is....
Loic Remy's Late Goal Seals Newcastle Upset Over Chelsea
It seems like we've been here before, with a member of the Premier League's royalty losing unexpectedly to a team with nowhere near comparable talent. But that's the 2013 season for you, where Arsenal and Liverpool face off in a top-of-the-table clash while fighting off the likes of Tottenham, Sout...
Stoke City Keeper Scores Goal Within First 15 Seconds
It took keeper Asmir Begović merely 15 seconds to score his first career goal when the cleared ball bounced over Southampton's Artur Boruc and in for an incredibly early 1-0 Stoke City lead. Begović's goal was the fifth ever by a keeper in EPL; the last instance was Tim Howard in 2012....
Young Soccer Fan Reps His City By Making Like A Helicopter
This little Western Sydney Wanderers supporter and Petey Pablo fan takes his hype man duties very seriously. Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images....
A Decapitated Ref, And What It Doesn't Say About Brazilian Soccer
Just this week, the severed head of a former Brazilian professional soccer player was delivered to his wife's doorstep. This comes on a heels of a horror story over the summer—a soccer game devolved into a double murder, a referee's head hacked off with a sickle. The New York Times has gone deep on ...
Eddie Gaven, The Oddest Goalkeeper In MLS History, Retires
Eddie Gaven retired today, and the math doesn't seem right. He's only 27 years old, but already an 11-year veteran of MLS. That's what happens when you get drafted at age 16, as Gaven was by the MetroStars in 2003. The wunderkind never quite lived up to the hype, but he proved to be a versatile, wor...
Happy Trails, Zidane Headbutt Statue!
Statue of controversial incident elicits controversy. Who'd a thunk it?...
Cristiano Ronaldo's Beef With The Head Of FIFA Is So Dumb
Widely loathed shadowy mastermind/FIFA president Sepp Blatter recently caused trouble when he made an appearance in front of England's Oxford Union, where he was asked to make a choice: Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?...
This Week In Soccer Fisticuffs: Players <i>And</i> Referees Throw Punches
A referee punched a player in Kuwait and a high school player here in the States punched a ref; it's been a busy week here at the People-Punching-Each-Other-While-Playing-Soccer Desk. Let's get down to business....