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A Bunch Of Big European Teams Plummeted In The New FIFA Rankings
The first post-World Cup FIFA rankings are out.As a disclaimer, the system FIFA uses to make these rankings is flawed to the point of irrelevancy.It does show us some general trends though:Some...
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9 Players Who Made Themselves A Ton Of Money At The World Cup
Every four years, a handful of players come out of nowhere, play well at the World Cup, and end up transferring to big clubs for a ton of money.Some of these guys pan out, while others fail.Here are...
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Real Madrid Buys World Cup Star James Rodríguez, Has Now Spent $398 Million...
Real Madrid has purchased Colombian 23-year-old James Rodríguez from AS Monaco, the team announced on Tuesday.The transfer fee is ~$101 million, according to the Spanish newspaper Marca.It's a case of...
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11 Stunning European Soccer Arenas That Put American Stadiums To Shame
The European sports stadiums built in recent years have been much more adventurous than their American counterparts.Looking at some of the newest soccer arenas in Europe, you see bright colors, goofy...
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Manchester United's Record Adidas Deal Will Shrink By $38 Million If They...
Manchester United's historic 10-year, $1.3-billion shirt sponsorship deal with Adidas could shrink significantly if the team struggles.Starting in the 2015-16 season, if United fails to qualify for the...
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English Soccer Player Scores Corkscrew Goal With The Outside Of His Foot
Here's Leicester City's David Nugent curling a shot into the top corner with the outside of his foot against Walsall in a preseason friendly.He runs onto a pass, hits it first time, and it beats the...
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Robots Score On A Human Soccer Team, Humans Retain Control Of The World
Founded in 1997 with the ambitious goal to develop a robotic humanoid soccer-playing robot by 2050, the RoboCup is an annual robotics competition that sees robots play soccer against each other in an...
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Why Louis Van Gaal, Manchester United's Mad Genius, Is Such A Good Coach
New Manchester United coach Louis van Gaal is one of the most eccentric characters in soccer.Grantland's Brian Phillips wrote an article filled with tons of great anecdotes about the 62-year-old,...
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Soccer Player Falls On His Face, Scores Header Goal Anyway
All the way from the fourth tier of German soccer comes this shambolic goal by Wurzburger Kickers player Christopher Bieber.It's unclear if Bieber intends to fall on his face or not. But the end result...
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Bayern Munich Coach Flips Out At MLS All-Stars, Refuses To Shake Hands After...
The MLS All-Star Game ended in ugly fashion on Wednesday when Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola, enraged by a series of fouls on his players, refused to shake hands with MLS All-Star team coach Caleb...
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US Soccer Legend Landon Donovan To Retire At The End Of This Season
Landon Donovan will retire from professional soccer at the end of the MLS season.Donovan confirmed the announcement via Facebook on Thursday after multiple sources, including ESPNFC's Taylor Twellman,...
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Soccer Fan Runs Onto The Field And Takes Free Kick
There have been plenty of instances of sports fans getting onto the field and being chased by security, but a man rushing the field during an English Premier League soccer match managed to actually get...
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Player Nearly Scores From The Halfway Line 4 Seconds Into A Champions League...
Demba Ba of the Turkish club Bestikas came within inches of scoring one of the fastest goals ever in the first leg of a Champions League playoff against Arsenal on Tuesday.On the first kick of the...
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University Of New Mexico Opens Hazing Investigation Into Women's Soccer Team
The University of New Mexico has launched an investigation into reports of a hazing incident in which female soccer players were made to strip and drink alcohol to excess, and were sprayed with urine,...
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Mario Balotelli, The Most Interesting Man In Soccer, Is Close To A Shock...
Liverpool is close to completing a transfer for AC Milan forward Mario Balotelli, according to widespread reports out of Italy and England.It a surprise. In early August, when Balotelli-to-Liverpool...
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Why Mario Balotelli Is Your New Favorite English Premier League Player
Here is a partial list of things Mario Balotelli did the last time he played in England:Got into a fist fight with his manager.Scored 20 goals.Lit his bathroom on fire while setting off fireworks.Threw...
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An Ex-Premier League Coach Allegedly Sent Racist Texts About Players, And His...
Ex-Cardiff City manager Malky MacKay and former team executive Iain Moody allegedly exchanged racist and offensive texts, some of which were about players, Matt Lawler of the Daily Mail reports.In one...
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An Insane Text Message Scandal Is Taking Over The English Soccer World
In a scandal that grows more dizzying by the day, ex-Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay and team executive Iain Moody are under investigation by English soccer's governing body for allegedly sending...
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How To Watch Any Soccer Goal In The World Within Seconds Of When It's Scored
The proliferation of the instantaneous soccer-goal Vine — the phenomenon where a seemingly endless number of Twitter users make six-second videos of goals within seconds of when they hit the back of...
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University Of New Mexico Suspends Women's Soccer Coach Over Hazing Of...
The University of New Mexico women's soccer coach and 22 players on the team were ordered suspended on Friday over a hazing incident that landed one extremely intoxicated freshman athlete in the...
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