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German police launch investigation into video of security beating fan during Portugal vs. Slovenia

FRANKFURT — German police are investigating a video appearing to show stadium personnel viciously beating a fan during the Portugal vs Slovenia Euro 2024 match.

The video, which Reuters has not been able to verify, shows a man in a steward's top repeatedly hitting someone in the face as colleagues restrain him in a Frankfurt Arena gangway. Two others kick and beat the man further when he falls to the floor.

Fan beaten at Euro game

Watch: Temwa Chawinga becomes first player to blast ball into river outside of KC Currents’ stadium

History was made at CPKC Stadium Friday night as Temwa Chawinga became the first player to launch a ball outside the building and into the Missouri River. KC Current would defeat the Houston Dash 2-0.

The Chawinga river ball shot saw her effort soar over the goal, over the stands and eventually become aquatic. The home fans went nuts.

Chawinga river ball shot

Germany defeat Denmark after insane severe weather delay and lightning strikes in Dortmund

Germany’s 2-0 Round of 16 victory vs. Denmark experienced a delay in the first half due to some of the craziest severe weather we’ve seen at a professional soccer game.

Around the 34th minute the game was temporarily suspended due to lightning near the stadium in Dortmund. The players hovered around the field for several minutes before retreating to the locker room.

The suspension lasted around 25 minutes as intense lightning strikes lit up the sky, hail came down and waterfalls appeared in the stadium. Craziness.

Kevin De Bruyne tells team to not thank Belgium fans after receiving boos from crowd

FREIBURG — Belgian fans went too far with their angry reaction to the team’s draw against Ukraine in the European Championship, veteran defender Thomas Meunier said on Thursday.

Supporters booed and whistled their side after a dour 0-0 stalemate that set up a last-16 clash with France, and more derision rained down when captain Kevin De Bruyne was announced as the man of the match.

USMNT announce three fall friendlies against lackluster opponents

The United States men’s national team announced three friendly matches and opponents for the Fall 2024 international window and fans weren’t thrilled. The upcoming USMNT fall friendlies will see the Americans host Canada, New Zealand and Panama.

USMNT fall friendlies

USMNT present underwhelming attendance in Copa América opener against Bolivia

Will this happen in the 2026 World Cup?

The United States were able to win their first match of the 2024 Copa América after a dominant 2-0 victory against Bolivia on Saturday. Christian Pulisic scored an incredible goal from outside the box to open the scoring.

Pathetic Messi fans send racist comments to Canada’s Moïse Bombito over his tackle on Messi

Racism is still the biggest plague of the “Beautiful Game”, and it reared its ugly head on Thursday as Argentina and Lionel Messi fans racially abused Canada’s Moïse Bombito on social media.

Fans weren’t happy about the tackle on Messi from the Colorado Rapids star during the Copa América opener between Canada and Argentina. During the second half Messi went down and received treatment following this tackle from the Canada defender.

Watch: Thousands of Dutch fans take over the streets of Hamburg with amazing celebrations

The European Championship never fails to bring out the best of soccer fandom. We’ve seen Albanians destroying spaghetti to torment Italians and now we have a viral Netherlands fans dancing in street video ahead of their opener vs. Poland.

When we say “dancing in street” we don’t mean a large group of people doing their own moves. We’re talking about thousands of fans in sync turning the streets of Hamburg into an orange mass moving in unison.

Italy get revenge after Albanian fans destroy their precious spaghetti in viral video

Saturday’s festivities began with a viral video of an Albania fan breaking spaghetti in front of Italy fans. That was a declaration of war.

The video spread like wildfire across the internet as the precious pasta of Italia was destroyed for all to see.

Albania fan breaking spaghetti

Fans give mixed feelings about Landon Donovan’s commentary following Euro opener

Germany torched poor Scotland 5-1 in the Euro 2024 opener on Friday with a dominant performance. The visitors failed to record more than one shot against the hosts in the one-sided contest.

With the game being so lopsided American fans turned their attention toward other aspects like the commentary provided by FOX Sports from Ian Darke and Landon Donovan.

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