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FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi – Source Wikimedia Jeroen Bennink Following yesterday’s performance on the soccer pitch, Lionel Messi needs a new nickname. Calling him the Atomic Flea just doesn’t do it for me anymore. Messi personifies all the panache of other soccer legends boasting far better nicknames like The Genius – Montenegro’s Dejan [...] It wasn’t quite the U.S. hockey team’s 1980 “Miracle on Ice” victory over the U.S.S.R. US Soccer's Clint Dempsey – Source Wikimedia Author 20 However, it was a global soccer shocker nonetheless. This week’s U.S. soccer team’s stunning 1 – 0 upset of four time world champion Italy on Italian soil ranks [...] Jurgen Klinsmann debuts tonight as the new coach of the U.S. men’s soccer team in an international friendly at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia against the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup champion Mexico. Klinsmann has already pledged a more aggressive attacking style of play from his new U.S. squad, whom he expects to transform to [...] New York Yankee Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit may have permeated yesterday’s sports new here in the United States. However, the story that dominated this weekend’s international sports news was the USA Women’s improbable World Cup victory over a favored Brazilian squad while playing a man down for most of the match. In the United [...] FC Barcelona’s decisive victory over a more physically imposing Manchester United squad in this weekend’s UEFA Champions League Final refuted a timeless adage. On the soccer pitch of London’s new Wembley Stadium, Barcelona’s Lilliputians Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernandez, David Villa, Daniel Alves, Pedro Rodriguez and Andreas Iniesta made a mockery of the common misperception [...] (Satire) On December 2, 2010, FIFA officially announced Qatar as host country of the 2022 World Cup. FIFA’s surprising selection of this little known, oft-mispronounced Persian Gulf Emirate is cited as a “courageous step into new territory.” Yea, kinda like intentionally marching right off the nearest cliff! Despite Qatar’s location in a politically unstable [...] |
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