Category Archives: Weird/Humorous Soccer
Watch: A reason to take your soccer goal nets down at night
Tip of the hat to Why Evolution is True.
Watch: LA Galaxy’s Landon Donovan continues to laugh all the way to the bank over U.S. World Cup roster cut
Goals and laughs: Watch the 10 best video highlights of Landon’s Donovan’s LA Galaxy and USA National Team career on and off the field
Watch: Wayne Rooney and Manchester United teammates cruise Beverly Hills
World Cup Brazil Humiliation Watch: Sadness Storified, Meet the Saddest Merchant in Old Torrance and who was the smart money on anyway?
“@nikesoccer: Dare to be Brasilian. #riskeverything pic.twitter.com/FvKHajSv4Q” Dare to have. Bad timing @nikesoccer
— Nick Green (@LAsoccerblog) July 8, 2014
Ooops.
It was that kind of day for Brazil (and its sponsors).
Experience the collective sadness of a mortified nation here.
Notable: online sports book Bovada.lv observed today that “70% of of the betting money was on Germany to win in regulation and 75 percent was on Germany to advance to the final.”
Odds on a score of Germany winning 7-1 were not offered (who would take that)? It was 250-1 for Germany to win 6-0, though.
Finally, what’s worse than being Brazilian and seeing your nation humiliated before a worldwide audience like that? How about being Brazilian and having a whole lot of World Cup-related merchandise to shift? Sales coming soon, I presume.
Here’s Ana Imbriale of Brasil Mania in Old Torrance (her young son, wearing a Neymar jersey, declined to appear on camera):
Speaking of bad timing: who will go to this event in Carson on the eve of the World Cup final now?
Slate on World Cup Arm-folding: Terrified Croat bunny rabbits and more
My wife has been fascinated by the televised art of arm-folding before World Cup games.
Turns out the folks at Slate were too and filed a blog post complete with hilarious GIFs.
Check it out here.
World Cup Watch: The best and worst commercial tie-ins to banned biter Luis Suarez
We’ll start with the worst, which is this YouTube video distributed by the Girl Scouts of America to media types Friday to pump up cookie sales.
That’s right, an organization that purports to build “girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place” is exploiting a violent incident seen around the world by a racist repeat offender like Luis Suarez.
“Have you ever wondered what Girl Scout Cookies do in their off-season?” read the accompanying press release. “Girl Scout cookies are biting back and staying active in the off season with a little help from the World Cup!”
In a word: tasteless
And here’s the best, from online casino Betfair, which has a whole host of creative Suarez bets including:
What will be the nationality of the next person bitten by Luis Suarez?
- Goes Hungry (None, he won’t bite anyone ever again.) – 1/16
- Fish and Chips (English) – 18/1
- Paella (Spanish) – 18/1
- Ratatouille (French) – 20/1
- Bitterballen (Dutch) – 25/1
- Bratwurst (German) – 25/1
- Haggis (Scottish) – 25/1
- Pizza (Italian) – 25/1
- Roast Lamb (Welsh) – 33/1
- Taco (Mexican) – 50/1
- Hamburger (American) – 66/1
- Kebab (Turkish) – 66/1
- Sushi (Japanese) – 80/1
- Stroganoff (Russian) – 100/1
- Chow Mein (Chinese) – 250/1
- Vindaloo (Indian) – 500/1
Luis Suarez World Cup watch: Zombified!
It’s crunch time as Luis Suarez bites back against Italy.
The Uruguayan forward has apparently gone from the upper photo to the lower one over the course of the World Cup tournament.
Pressure will do that to you I guess — or stupidity — given his controversial actions at the World Cup today.
Pass the brains, Luis (if you have any).
The gory details of the story are here.
Want to zombify yourself? Go here.
Here’s more on the twitter reaction to the incident:
Twitter conversation about @luis16suarez today: -Prior to biting @chiellini: 100k mentions -Since biting @chiellini: 2m mentions
— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) June 24, 2014
Must see Clint Dempsey USMNT World Cup Photo Bomb
Highlight from this morning: @clint_dempsey #PhotoBomb duing @J_Klinsmann photo with local police! pic.twitter.com/3wkMelpILo
— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) June 20, 2014