Fans Insult Soccer Player’s Dead Mom, Soccer Player Bursts Into Tears [VIDEO]
Everything about this story is very sad. In this video you will see an emotional, Turkish football player, Volkan Sen who plays for Trabzonspor FC. He burst in to tears during a match on Monday because fans of his OWN TEAM heckled his dead mother. Wait until you hear what the chairman of the football club had to say.
The Monthly Meltdown: Angered Football Club Fans Stage Mental Fire Protest [VIDEO]
Earlier this week in the land of the Pols, the defending league champion Legia Warsaw were fined and forced to close down a spectator stand stand for yesterday’s Champions League tie as punishment for their fan’s “racist behaviour” at a match in July. Naturally, the team’s fans responded by basically turning a stand into a glowing hellfire of fury and flares.
Soccer Player Pulls Down Opponent’s Shorts In Front Of Referee [VIDEO]
What do you do if an opponent kicks the ball away from where you positioned it during a soccer match? You pull down his shorts of course. This is what happened and the referee just looked on.
The Best Worst Display Of Soccer You’ve Seen Since We Played Norway [VIDEO]
The Haiti-El Salvador Gold Cup took place on 16 July 2013 and the level of soccer could not have been any better. Kidding. Watch the striker miss an open goal.
Real Madrid Is The World’s Most Valuable Sports Franchise At A Whopping R29 Billion
Real Madrid has dominated European soccer with 32 La Liga titles and nine UEFA Champions League trophies. The football club has seen stars like Raul, Ronaldo, David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Christiano Ronaldo walk through doors.
Austrian Soccer Player Scores Ridiculous Goal From 60 Metres [VIDEO]
20-year-old Martin Hinteregger, a Red Bull Salzburg defender scored the goal of a life time. The ball was kicked from 60 meters away and had enough power to make it over the goal keeper’s fingers.
Brazilian Soccer Player Scores First Ever Goal, Celebrates Too Hard, Injures Himself [VIDEO]
Doing a cartwheel followed by a backflip is one way to celebrate your first professional soccer goal. But what this Brazilian soccer player did not bargain for was a sprained knee.
Read This Headline Carefully: Brazil Soccer Ref Decapitated After Stabbing Player
Soccer referee Otavio da Silva ordered player Josenir dos Santos to leave the pitch. Santos refused, and there was bloodshed.
Soccer Player Scores Goal, Takes Off Pants In Celebration, Gets Red Card [VIDEO]
If you ever make it over to Thailand, do pop over to the local football stadium to catch the Thai Premier League teams in action. Players tend to remove their pants when celebrating goals.
David Beckham Announces Retirement
David Beckham is retiring at the end of his current season at Paris club, Paris St-Germain, where he is donating all his earnings to charity. This guy does things nicely..
Alex Ferguson Has Announced His Retirement: Read His Statement Here
Sir Alex Ferguson will be retiring from football management at the end of the current English football season, his 27th in charge of Manchester United. Under his tenure, United racked up 13 league titles, two Champions Leagues, the Cup Winners’ Cup, five FA Cups and four League Cups. Ferguson, who will remain at the club as […]
Liverpool Striker Luis Suarez Bites Chelsea Defender Branislav Ivanovic [VIDEO]
The name Luis Suarez leaves a bitter taste in most South African’s mouths after the 2010 FIFA World Cup. But this time Luis has moved to another level. Liverpool’s “trouble-prone” striker attempted to bite the arm of Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic. Check it out
Weasel Brings Football Match To A Grinding Halt [VIDEO]
Look at this adorable Pine Marten. Just look at it. A match between Thun and FC Zurich in Switzerland’s top football league, a pine marten (a close relation to the weasel) invaded the pitch, running between the legs of players and officials, and bring the game to a complete stand still. The marten had wandered […]
Highlights Reel – Ryan Giggs’ 1 000 Game Career Is Older Than The Age Of Some Of His Team Mates [VIDEO]
Ryan Giggs is, arguably, one of the most naturally talented football players to grace the modern game. With an unrivalled mental strength, Giggs has skipped, turned, nutmegged and slotted his way through over 20 years of professional senior football, having burst onto the scene as something of a boy wonder for Manchester United in 1990. […]
Tuesday Morning Spice
Global match-fixing ring busted. Herbalife shares plunge amid government probe. Prince Harry coming to SA. Apple interface overhaul looming. Youngest ever Oscar nominee. First porn star into space.
Two Teams Sent Off During Paraguayan Soccer Match [VIDEO OF BRAWL]
Nestor Guillen on Sunday equalled the world record for the most number of red cards handed out during a soccer match, er, brawl, when he sent off 36 players in a Paraguayan junior league match.
Violence Breaks Out In Dakar During Soccer Match [GALLERY]
On Saturday, the second leg of a qualifying match for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations took place between the Ivory Coast and Senegal in Dakar. But the game had to be abandoned before the end due to violent riots by Senegalese fans.
Goal Line Technology In Soccer Set To Be Approved Today
How this has taken so long to happen is beyond comprehension, but by all accounts, when the International Football Association Board (IFAB) meet today, goal-line technology is set to get the go-ahead.
UK Police Investigate Racist Abuse Of England Strikers On Twitter
On Sunday night, England dropped out of Euro 2012 in a quarterfinal against Italy. After 120 minutes of play, without any score, the teams went into a penalty shootout which saw Ashley Cole and Ashley Young both miss their attempts. The two players, who are both black, drew heavy racist abuse on Twitter which is now being investigated by British police.
URGENT: Manchester United Pre-Season Tour – Buy Tickets Now!
The time has finally come people, you can now purchase tickets to watch Manchester United play on South African soil!. Click through for the details.
Manchester United Coming Down To Play Amazulu And Ajax CT In July
Football fans ready your wallets, the world’s most popular team, Manchester United, are hopping over the pond to come play a pair of warm-up games against two local teams in July.
10% Of The World’s Population Supports Manchester United, Apparently
Following a recent survey, the chances that someone is a Manchester United supporter are now as great as one in ten. That’s almost 660 million people around the world.
Naked Ukrainian Feminists Strike Again, Grab Euro 2012 Trophy [Mildly N5FW]
Our friends from FEMEN, the topless Ukrainian protest group, have struck again – this time at the Euro 2012 trophy display in Poland. They are protesting the prestigious sporting event and the economies of prostitution and sex trafficking that spring up around it. See their passionate cries for justice after the jump.
Can Roy Hodgson Turn England’s Title Drought Around?
Yesterday, England’s Football Association announced the rather controversial choice of Roy Hodgson to take the reins of the national football team from Fabio Capello for the next four years. Hodgson has the experience of a long career in coaching behind him, but can he turn the fans and even the players to his side in order to recapture England’s long gone football glory days?
Soccer’s Richest Stars Revealed
France Football magazine has released this year’s list of the world’s highest-earning soccer players – Rooney earned $32,6 million for a single goal, and Samuel Eto’o got $37 million for moving to Russia. And to everybody’s surprise, Beckham isn’t the biggest earner anymore; see who’s taken the lead after the jump.
Soccer Player Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Match Over Weekend
An FA Cup quarterfinal match between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers came to a shocking halt over the weekend after a player suffered a cardiac arrest during the game. It took nearly two hours to get 23-yeard-old Fabrice Muamba’s heart to work on its own again, and he is currently still fighting for his life.
Brazilian Police Equipped With Facial Recognition Glasses For 2014
This is sort of like Robocop! Brazilian police forces are testing out glasses fitted out with cameras linked to a central computer network that stores a database of criminal suspects’ faces, so that they’ll be able to arrest people during the 2014 World Cup without having to ask them their names.
Sepp Blatter Says Racial Insults On Soccer Field “Should Be Forgotten”
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said yesterday that racial insults on the soccer field are nothing more than “on-field provocation”. He also suggested that players should accept this as part of the game and simply shake hands at the end of the match. I was actually trying to think of something sarcastic to insert here, but I’m too busy weeping for humanity at the moment.
Uncontrollable Orlando Pirates Players Love To Party
The Orlando Pirates have a good attitude towards success. Grounded, really. Because they like to have a good time, whether they’re winning or losing. Reports today say some of the players have turned the team residence in Buccleuch, Johannesburg into a “party haven”. Judging by the way they’ve been jolling, the defending league champions don’t seem to be at all worried that they have hit a slump in form.