This brilliant scissors kick by 24-year-old Brazilian midfielder Marlone, who controls a cross with his chest before unleashing his powerful shot from midair, came in Corinthians’ 6-1Copa Libertadores win over Chile’s Cobresal.
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Video Pick: Kane, Aguero, Vardy serve up EPL golazos
Harry Kane (Tottenham), Sergio Aguero (Man City), Jamie Vardy (Leicester), Joshua King (Bournemouth) and AaronCresswell (West Ham) provide the English Premier League’s Top 5 Goals of the Week.
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Datebook: U.S. sets second June match against Japan
The U.S. women’s national team, unbeaten and untied in 2016, will face Japan on June 5 at Cleveland’s FirstEnergy Stadium in the second game of series that will begin three days earlier at Dick’sSporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado. Japan won the 2011 Women’s World Cup and lost to the USA in the 2012 […]
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Video Pick: And yet another inexplicable keeper own goal
Last week when we presented a goalkeeper own goal from Tahiti’sMickael Roche we figured it was a one a kind blunder, but Andrea Consigli of Italian Serie A’s Sassuolo managed to pass the ball into his own net in similarfashion just a few days later during a 3-1 loss to Fiorentina. Roche’sblooper:
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Women's Olympic: Draw good omen for USA?
If the 2012 Olympics are any indication, Thursday’s draw for the 2016 women’s soccer competition at the Rio Games is a good omen for the USA. Four years ago, the USA played France, Colombia and NewZealand at the London Games and won its fourth gold medal. In August, it will face New Zealand, France and […]
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Video Pick: VfB Stuttgart sets own goal record
VfB Stuttgart, whose 3-1 loss to Bayern Munich included an own goal by Georg Niedermeier, has after 29 games set the Bundesliga record for own goals in a season. Here are all six (!)blunders from the 12th-place team.
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Video Pick: The worst goalkeeper own goal ever?
During Tahiti club Tefana’s 6-1 win over Fiji’s Nad in the Oceania Champions Leaguei, Tefana goalkeeper Mickael Roche — whom you might remember giving up 10 goals to Spain atthe 2013 Confederations Cup — scored this mind-boggling own goal.
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Video Pick: How to score while sitting down
VfB Stuttgart’s Daniel Didavi scored while on his butt against Bayern Munich’s World Cup-winning goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in last weekend’s 3-1 Bayern win.
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Video Pick: Bundesliga golazos by Chicharito & Ribery
Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez‘s 15th goal of the season for Bayer Leverkusen, a curling shot from the outside corner of the penalty area that nicked the far post, and a spectacularbicycle kick by Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery feature among the Bundesliga’s Top 5 Goals of matchday 28.
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Video Pick: The big Man City blunder in PSG tie
Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart and defender Fernando combined for this blooper that led to Zlatan Ibrahimovic‘s goal in Man City’s 2-2 tie atParis Saint-German in their Champions League quarterfinal, first-leg clash.