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Luis Montes Scores Spectacular Goal, Immediately Suffers Horrific Injury
Mexico will be missing one of its midfielders in Brazil after Luis Montes suffered what looks like a compound leg fracture during today's friendly against Ecuador—just moments after scoring a spectacular golazo....

League 1 Play-Off Final Equalizer "Best Goal New Wembley Has Seen"
Alex Revell's 35-yard swooping goal brought Rotherham United back equal with Leyton Orient in today's League 1 play-off final at Wembley in a feat BBC called the greatest goal that venue has ever seen....

League 1 Semi-Final Produces Wondergoal Of The Year
What you see here is Preston North End striker Joe Garner drilling home an equalizer in the first leg of his team's League 1 semi-final against Rotherham United. We're struggling to think of a more impressive goal in any league this season....

This Great Yaya Touré Goal Is The Perfect Cap To The 2014 PL Season
Well, it's over. Manchester City played Aston Villa today in the Premier League, and whammed on them. Unless Manchester City lose to midtable West Ham next weekend, they'll be crowned Premier League champions. ...

Japanese Soccer Team Incorporates Half The Team In This Fake Free Kick
I’m not sure how much of an actual advantage Kyoto Sanga got from this five-man fakeout goal, but any innovation on the standard, one player half-heartedly jogging past the ball before the guy you always knew was going to shoot takes a swing is welcome. Next time, I want to see two lines crisscrossi...

Cristiano Ronaldo Lands Equalizer With Back-Heel Volley
Ho, hum. Another golazo from Cristiano Ronaldo....

Gareth Bale Is The Fastest Man Alive, Scores Late To Win Copa del Rey
The final el clásico of the year. A one-off match for the Copa del Rey trophy. A trophy-starved Barça's last legitimate shot for silverware. Star man Cristiano Ronaldo out with an injury. And in the middle of all this, newcomer Gareth Bale decided he'd just outrun everyone. ...

Atlético Madrid Beat Barça In Champions League, Dream Season Continues
It's all fun and games cheering on plucky upstarts Atlético Madrid, right up until the point they tear out your heart and play keepy-uppy with it. So excuse me if I'm not appropriately excited about Atlético's thoroughly deserved and enjoyable-for-neutrals 1-0 Champions League win over Barcelona....

Sad Man United Score Great Goal, Then Get Pounded In Champions League
So...the gig's up. Manchester United, who have played like absolute dog shit all season long, almost definitely won't play in the Champions League next season. After drawing defending CL champions FC Bayern last week in the first leg of their quarterfinal, they needed to avoid a loss in Germany to a...

Watch The Stunning Champions League Strike That Put Atléti Up On Barça
Barcelona welcomed Atlético Madrid to the Camp Nou today in what is becoming a regular rivalry of increasingly large stakes. It was a Champions League matchup this time, as tense and cagey as you'd expect—that is, until Diego decided he'd had enough and straight flattened a ball into the net from ab...

Here's Everton's Ross Barkley Dribbling 75 Yards And Scoring A Goal
So, Everton are playing Newcastle today, and midway through the first half, the Magpies took a corner kick that was cleared to Everton's young midfielder Ross Barkley. Then Barkley dribbled all the way down the right by himself, cut left inside the box through Newcastle defenders, and roofed a shot ...

Wayne Rooney Scores Goal From 50 Yards Away
Wayne Rooney opened the scoring for Manchester United today with a long-range bomb reminiscent of Luis Suarez's goal for Liverpool two years ago, a 50-yard volley that left NBC's announcers almost at a loss for words. We're sure Rooney's West Ham opponents had a few, though....

Andrea Pirlo Just Scored Another Incredible Free Kick Goal
This is Juventus's Andrea Pirlo. He's 100 years old, and, aside from the greatest flowing mane of hair to ever grace a human's head, looks older than that. No one has seen him move in earnest in six or seven years, but he scores stunning free kicks all the time. This is one of those times. ...

This Fluke Backheel Goal From 35 Yards Out Is Just Hilarious
While you MLS truthers and Eurosnobs were watching soccer last weekend, this absolute gem of a goal happened in the Jordan Premier League. ...

Lionel Messi Broke Barcelona's All-Time Goal Record With This Hat Trick
Another game, another broken record in the simply unparalleled career of Lionel Messi. His hat trick against Osasuna yesterday put him atop the all-time Barcelona scoring charts at 371, surpassing Paulino Alcántara's 87-year-old mark of 369. It was a vintage display from a player whose game is only ...

Gareth Bale And Cristiano Ronaldo Swiss-Cheesed Schalke's Defense
Hey, stupid Real Madrid fans: can we stop pretending like Gareth Bale isn't still the great player Madrid thought they were buying? Today's complete demolishment of Schalke in the Champions League has to finally shut you guys up, right?...

Sad Manchester United Lose Following Wonder Goal From Joel Campbell
Manchester United traveled to Greece to play Olympiakos FC in the Champions League, and they caught an ass-whooping. Olympiakos opened scoring in the 38th minute, when an Alejandro Dominguez shot from the top of the box was deflected before tragically trickling past United keeper David de Gea into t...

Holy Shit, Everyone Look At This Golazo From Ricardo Quaresma
Portuguese side FC Porto are playing German club Eintracht Frankfurt today in the Europa League. And that doesn't matter at all. They're playing on Thursday night in soccer's NIT, and every single player, coach, ref, and fan would rather be somewhere else, and what the fuck! ...

Zlatan Ibrahimović Scores Outrageous Champions League Goal
French champions Paris Saint-Germain were visiting German side Bayer Leverkusen today in the Champions League Round of 16. We're not going to leave you in suspense here: PSG had an easy go of it. ...