A lot of you probably think beach soccer is a wannabe sport for wannabe athletes.
I’m here to tell you that you are wrong.
First of all, the sport relies on bicycle kicks and volleys for its scoring, which means that goals that might happen once every couple of weeks in “grass-ball” happen multiple times per game in beach soccer. Four words: bicycle kick hat-trick; that’s a real thing.
Ronaldo either learned a valuable lesson or took his diving theatrics to a whole new level at a recent Real Madrid training.
A video surfaced showing Ronaldo bumping Portugal and Real Madrid teammate Pepe, then Pepe getting sweet revenge.
He went in hard for a tackle and Ronaldo flopped around like a fish out of water.
What do you think, did Pepe actually hurt Ronaldo or was Cristiano just faking.
I hope to one day be as great as Alfredo Di Stefano. That in and of itself is nothing unique or special — many hope to be as great as he was — what’s special is how much I mean it.
I want to one day be able to be the man that can look into Cristiano Ronaldo’s eyes and know that there is mutual respect in that gaze, that gives Zinedine Zidane his Real Madrid shirt, that makes a club like Real Madrid the legend that it is today.
The most exciting moment of Wigan Athletic's preseason 1-1 draw at Altrincham didn't occur during actual gameplay.
Wigan defender James Tavernier was about to take a corner when a young fan ran onto the field and stole Tavernier's thunder.
Tavernier's reaction is pretty hilarious.
What would you do if you found yourself in a futsal match with Zinedine Zidane? Beg for mercy? Pee your pants? Faint?
One player who found himself in that exact situation decided the occasion warranted a selfie with the French legend. Zidane was happy to oblige, but the referee did not take kindly to the picture, and booked the offender.
We assume the card was yellow because of the player's reaction to it. The card doesn't appear to be yellow in the video.
Stuart Edge might be the corniest name I have heard in years, but he sure does know how to pull off a magic trick.
It starts off with the usual take-a-card-any-card and then evolves into something involving a soccer ball, a kick, and Real Salt Lake’s Luke Mulholland. It makes sense in the end, except it kind of doesn’t, but your eye’s will be happy.
Si has estado viendo lo más destacado del fútbol desde el comienzo de YouTube, lo más probable es que hayas visto este gol.
Es un clásico, el tipo de gol que, cuando lo ves por primera vez, te hace comprender que es posible hacer mucho más en el campo de juego de lo que habías pensado.
Fue Clarence Seedorf quien marcó para el Real Madrid contra el Atlético de Madrid en 1997, y puede que sea el gol característico de su carrera.
AC Siena was beating Internazionale Milan 3-2 in 2010. Inter would go on to win the treble that year; beating Barcelona along the way with one of the most classic “Mourinho parks the bus” defensive efforts of all time. Siena, on the other hand, would be relegated. An upset was on hand, but Wesley Sneijder was yet to have his final say.
The internet is flooded with highlight videos. A player simply has to be young, talented, and make a couple cool plays in a season for someone to string those plays together in iMovie, throw some banal techno music over it, and produce one of them. I say this like I hate them, and in many ways I do, but I also cannot deny that watching these videos can be about as addicting as it gets.
TMZ asked Zlatan his thoughts on the FIFA scandal, and it went about as well as you'd expect.
"I don't know. It's not my area. I play soccer," Zlatan said.
Hear that? ZLATAN CALLED IT SOCCER. This is further proof that America is taking over the game. It's no longer "football." It's "soccer." Zlatan said so.
Now that one of the best players in the world called it soccer, the can be no stopping it. Get used to soccer, rest of the world.