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Virgil Gomis is a name that we hadn't heard of before this morning. After having seen this video, though, we will likely not forget it for a while. We will certainly be on the lookout for it in the coming years as we follow the EPL, because, man, how can a person who can do this be stuck on a youth team that doesn't even play in the first division?

He will likely not be mired on Nottingham Forest's U-18 team for much longer, because he scored the goal of his life (which would be the goal of most players lives, really) to win against Ipswich Town's U-18 team, 3-2.

Youtube user Footballskills98 has been in the trick shot game for quite some time. We at The18 first saw him and his pristine looking backyard in a trick shot video that was nothing if not creative. Then we saw him take the cross bar challenge to a whole new level.

MLS fans have been ramping up the hooliganism lately, mostly in the New York/New Jersey area. This is not in itself surprising, as hooliganism emanates naturally from the New York/New Jersey area.

What is surprising, however is that one of New York's finest deployed a stun gun on a New York City FC fan outside a NYCFC game at Yankee Stadium. It's not entirely clear what the fan did to deserve having thousands of volts of electricity pulse through his body, but it must have been really bad, considering what New York City cops have to deal with on a daily basis. 

Depending on who you ask, Drake is either the greatest rapper of all time, or a representation of everything that is wrong with people today. That sounds like a harsh set of extremes, but, really, it’s no exaggeration.

It’s unfortunate that Drake might have added another set of harsh extremes for those to judge him when he uploaded this video of him shanking a kick and breaking a lamp in what we assume is his own back yard tennis court.

This is a public service announcement for journalists covering press conferences in which Zlatan Ibrahimovic happens to be speaking, especially journalists whom Zlatan Ibrahimovic doesn't particularly like: maybe don't ask Zlatan questions that will make him turn into a fire-breathing Swedish monster, throwing insults around like he's at the roast of Donald Trump or something.

Wayne Rooney had a bad game against Swansea this weekend, and Manchester United lost 2-1. 

Rooney has been much maligned this season, and, aside from a hat-trick against Club Brugge in a Champions League qualifier, hasn't done much of anything on the field.

He has, however, made one of Swansea's mascots' days infinitely better. It's hard to hate on Rooney when he inspires this type of reaction from children.

Face it, you will probably never have this reaction to anything in your life.

Nothing reminds you more of how you could never make it as a professional footballer than moseying on over to your local park and taking a few long shots. First, you’ll notice how incredibly inaccurate you are, and how incredibly frustrating it can be to get the ball to do what you want it to do: you mean to bend it far post and high but it goes near post and low; you go for power and just send it straight at the keeper’s chest. You try to chip it and, well, you most definitely do not succeed.

Jose "Joey Bats" Bautista is a big deal to Major League Baseball fans, but Lionel Messi is a big deal to Jose Bautista.

At a recent Toronto Blue Jays practice, Bautista swapped his Blue Jays jersey for a fan's Messi Barcelona jersey, then practiced with the Messi jersey on.

You can't do it all alone, even if you're the best player in the world. This was the message Lionel Messi gave when interviewed after winning the UEFA Player of the Year award (again).

"What we all achieved is all thanks to this great team," Messi said. "When you manage to achieve all your objectives with the group, then your personal objectives can also be achieved."

Messi cements his reputation as a humble superstar here, knowing that even he can't win every game by himself (although in truth he could probably get close).

Stay classy, Messi.

Do you want to know what feels like it happened a long time ago? This, this feels like it happened a long time ago:

That was Javier Hernandez playing hero for Real Madrid in one of the biggest games of the year late last April, 4 months ago.