They've done it. Qatar Airways has made an in-flight safety video interesting enough to keep you paying attention from start to finish. Sure they needed help from Lionel Messi, Neymar, Pique and other Barcelona players, but by God they've done the impossible.
Neymar is simply stunning to watch play. He is everything that we hope a Brazilian superstar would be: creative, unpredictable, lightning on the pitch. He was just ranked as the third-best footballer in the world by The Guardian because he marries these qualities with effectiveness. It’s ironic then, that arguably Neymar’s best play of the year wound up ineffective.
Cristiano Ronaldo is stepping up his property game. Last week, Ronaldo unveiled his $80 million range of CR7 branded hotels that will open in Funchal, Lisbon, Madrid and New York. This week, he’s granted us access to his mansion in Madrid with a self-guided tour through Unscriptd.com.
Orchestrated free kicks are very hard to pull off. The choreography of the runs and passes is something people are used to seeing on Sundays in the NFL, not Saturdays in MLS. Each pass, it must be said, is also yard-for-yard harder to complete, because, you know, the players are using their feet and not their hands.
England is known for it’s rough-and-tumble, all-action playing style. The Premier League is no stranger, for better or for worse, to crunching tackles and fierce 50/50 challenges.
While officials in the EPL have been working to cutdown on the horror tackles, from behind and/or with the studs showing, that result in terrible injuries, there’s no denying that soccer is an inherently physical game and will remain so for the forseeable future.
Pachuca unveiled their latest signing Tuesday with a timely, yet bizarre, pop culture reference. Clad in Darth Vader’s getup and stepping to “The Imperial March,” Pachuca’s new arrival, Darth Omar, made his way to the podium along with a Sith Lord, Stormtrooper and an undersized Chewbacca.
With Star Wars fever firmly gripping the planet, who can blame Pachuca for catching the bug? It makes for an oddly captivating viewing experience.
Sometime you just need a beer. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, the beer won’t drink itself. There are plenty of excuses when it comes to knocking back a cold one, most of them aren’t very good. “Just drink it." How about that? Anyway, any old excuse seems like it will fit with Massimo Maccarone’s beer drinking celebration.
We're not going to lie. We here at The18.com are partial to any player who sports our digits on his or her back. (Note to Harry Kane: We liked your old number better.) So, it's only fitting that today we celebrate another #18 – Paul Scholes – and what many consider to be the Manchester United legend's finest goal. It came during a match against Aston Villa on this very day in 2006.
There are three things that are certain in this world. Death, taxes and that Mesut Ozil will register an assist whenever he steps on the pitch. In Monday's 2-1 victory over Manchester City, Ozil chalked up assists on both Gunner goals bringing his total for the 2015 EPL campaign to 15! The next highest assist total in the league is 7, which is held by Everton's Gerard Deulofeu. Now that we gave props to Ozil's ridiculous assist numbers, we go onto the real discussion of this Amazing Goals post. Which goal was better between Theo Walcott's and Yaya Toure's?
Ajax weren’t in crisis during Jairo Riedewald’s debut, just in danger of stumbling at a critical point. They had botched some critical games at the beginning of the season, but had turned things around with a 5-game winning streak that had seen them move from 6th to 2nd. Finally within striking distance of first place Vitesse – an Ajax win and Vitesse loss would see Ajax clear into first place, while a win and a tie would have Ajax in first place on goal differential – Ajax found itself down 1-0 to 14th place Roda JC. They were in danger of missing out on first place yet again.