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Keeper Absolutely Mortified After Snapping Opponent's Leg With Horrible Tackle
Kenneth Udjus, goalkeeper for Norwegian third-tier club Asker, did a very bad thing this weekend when he clattered into the leg of KFUM player Yassin Rfiffi, flat-out destroying the poor guy’s shin. Udjus immediately looked like he wanted to dig a hole to the center of the Earth and build himself a ...

Michael Bradley Scores From Long Range To Put U.S. Up 1-0 On Mexico
¡GOLAZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!...

Scotland Score Two Free Kick Goals To Take Lead In Final Five Minutes; Still Don't Win
Leigh Griffiths hammered home a pair of free-kick goals in the final five minutes of Scotland’s World Cup qualifier against England today, taking a 2-1 lead only to see the match end in a draw thanks to, yeah, Harry Kane....

Sweden Beat France On 50-Meter Goal With Seconds Remaining
Ola Toivonen took advantage of a Hugo Lloris blunder as the Swedish striker (who plays in Ligue 1) hammered in a strike from midfield while the French keeper scrambled, and failed, to stop it as the clock expired on stoppage time at Friends Arena in Stockholm....

Olivier Giroud Golazo Gives France Short-Lived Lead
Olivier Giroud is no stranger to magnificent goals, and his half-volley bender to put his France side up 1-0 on Sweden today ranks up there with the best of them. (Perhaps in shock, the Frenchmen surrendered a Jimmy Durmaz equalizer minutes later.)...

Christian Pulisic Is Restoring My Faith In U.S. Soccer
There was, I must admit, a moment there before the start of last night’s crucial USA vs. Trinidad and Tobago World Cup qualifier when I thought it would be better if the U.S. blew the match and the next couple and wound up missing out on next summer’s World Cup....

David Moyes Fined For Telling Female Reporter She "Might Get A Slap"
The English Football Association has fined former Sunderland manager David Moyes £30,000 for threatening comments he made to a female reporter after a match against Burnley in March....

U.S. Beat Trinidad & Tobago Thanks To Pair Of Christian Pulisic Goals
A pair of gorgeous second-half goals by America’s Wonderteen gave the U.S. a 2-0 World Cup qualifier win tonight in Denver over Trinidad and Tobago....

Saudi National Team Declines To Participate In Pregame Moment Of Silence For London Attacks
The Saudi Arabian national soccer team, in Australia today for a World Cup qualifying match, did not observe the pregame moment of silence the Australian soccer federation put together to commemorate the victims of last weekend’s terrorist attacks in London. Here’s video of the moment:...

Spanish Forward Wants Out Of England, Says His Daughter "Looks Like She's Been Living In A Cave"
Out of favor Manchester City forward Nolito, who started only nine matches last season, wants to leave the club due to his lack of playing time, the difficulty of learning English, and because he doesn’t want his daughter turning into a sallow-faced, English-looking person....

"Fuck You, I'm Millwall!" Londoner Says He Took On Bridge Attackers After A Few Pints
A soccer fan from London said he tried to stop the attackers on London Bridge on Saturday after drinking, he said, “four or five pints, nothing major.” According to the Guardian, the Millwall fan, Roy Larner, was stabbed in the attack and was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but is now o...

Arda Turan Quits Turkish National Team After Allegedly Choking Journalist
Barcelona midfielder Arda Turan has played for Turkey 97 times, making him the fourth most capped player in national team history. He is only 30 years old, so he was probably headed for the all-time record, but Turan announced yesterday his immediate plans to quit the national team for good after he...

Two Dipshits Tried To Crash Real Madrid's Champions League Title Celebration
This video is in Spanish, but you don’t need much familiarity with the language to 1) cringe in vicarious embarrassment over the shamelessness of these two apparently random “fans” who snuck onto the pitch following Real Madrid’s Champions League final victory this weekend, and 2) appreciate the goo...

Real Madrid Won Everything And Don't Have Much To Show For It
Real Madrid, whose riches and fame and consistent, historic success as a club are unmatched in soccer’s long history, just capped off one of their greatest seasons ever—and it was just the latest of a string of triumphant years that by all rights should indelibly brand this era as their own. They pu...

Five Gulf Countries Cut Ties With Qatar; FIFA Has No Comment
Five Arab countries—Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen—have severed diplomatic ties with Qatar, cut off all travel to and from the country, and ordered their citizens to leave the country. According to the BBC, the countries have accused Qatar of destabilizing the regi...

Former Newcastle Midfielder Cheick Tiote Dead At 30 After Collapsing During Training
Former Cote d’Ivoire international midfielder Cheick Tiote died this morning after collapsing during a training session with his Chinese club. A spokesman for second-division side Beijing Enterprise confirmed the news to the BBC. Tiote spent the bulk of his career with Newcastle, amassing 156 appear...

Juventus Equalize On Mario Mandžukić<em></em> Overhead Golazo Off Stunning Passes
Mario Mandžukić’s overhead stunner came off a series of volleyed passes to draw Juventus even with Real Madrid in the first half of today’s Champions League final; this one absolutely must be heard with the Fox Deportes commentary, because it is manic commentating done to perfection....

China's Building A Lionel Messi Theme Park
As part of China’s state-supported effort to become a player on the global soccer stage, Chinese investors have been making moves, such as buying shares in internationally renowned teams like AC Milan and shelling out insanely high transfer fees for global soccer superstars like Carlos Tevez. While ...

Badass Referee Ducks Disgruntled Player's Punch, Squares Up And Starts Swinging
We’ve seen too many instances of helpless referees getting punched, smacked, kicked, jumped, stomped out, and even killed by bad soccer men mad over some call or other. So it’s a nice change of pace seeing this referee, overseeing a match in Argentina’s Copa Santa Fe, fighting back for once....

Wolfsburg Make John Brooks The Most Expensive American Player In History
This summer’s transfer window isn’t even officially open yet and we’re already seeing some crazy, record-breaking fees being thrown about. Like Paul Pogba a year ago, the source of the (arguably) biggest, most (relatively) eye-popping fee that (not quite) everyone is talking about is the record-smas...