South Africa’s Ajax Cape Town fell, 2-1, to the Orlando Pirates thanks to embracing own goal — Finnish keeper Anssi Jaakkola mis-playing a benign backpass from RivaldoCoetzee. It was judged by the TV commentator as “a blooper of the biggest proportion.”
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Video Pick: Top 5 Bundesliga Goals of the Week
Szabolcs Huszti (Eintracht Frankfurt), Havard Nordtveit (Bourssia M’Gladbach), Johannes Geis (Schalke 04), Nicolai Mueller (HamburgSV) and Kostas Stafylidis (Augsburg) provide the Top 5 goals from Bundesliga Week 20 play.
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Video Pick: The Vardy Volley
In case you missed it, or would like to see it again from every possible angle, here’s the 30-yard volley golazo from Jamie Vardy in Leicester City’s 2-0 win over Liverpool earlierthis week. Vardy leads the EPL with 18 goals.
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Video Pick: World Cup winner's own goal denied
Borussia Dortmund central defender Mats Hummels, who started on Germany’s 2014 World Cup-winning team, scored a spectacular own goal last weekend, but got lucky when refereeGuido Winkmann nullified it — judging that Ingolstadt’s Dario Lezcano fouled Hummels when launched the lob over keeper Roman Buerki duringDortmund’s 2-0 win.
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Video Pick: Ref asks for mid-game autograph
When Brazilian star Ronaldinho made a one-game appearance for Ecuadoran club Barcelona against San Martin, the referee took time in the middle of the match to get an autograph fromthe two-time FIFA World Player of the Year.
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Neymar faces fraud investigation
Prosecutors in Brazil are recommending that Neymar be charged over four counts of fraud in relation to a tax case prior to his transfer to Barcelona in 2013. It is alleged thatcompanies were set up as fronts in order for the striker to pay a lower rate of tax. The case in Brazil relates to […]
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Video Pick: Mario Balotelli takes nutmeg challenge
Italian star Mario Balotelli boasted that there’s 100 percent no way Dutch freestyler Soufiane Touzani could nutmeg him. And so this happened. … — Touzani TV
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Palmer-Brown, 18, headed to European giant FC Porto
American defenders are certainly in vogue. After Jorge Villafana and Omar Gonzalez, sold to Mexican clubs in December, and Saturday’s $5 million deal that sent Matt Miazga fromthe New York Red Bulls to Chelsea, 18-year-old defender Erik Palmer-Brown is headed from Sporting Kansas City to FC Porto in Portugal for the remainder of 2016. Porto […]
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Video Pick: Top 5 English FA Cup Goals
Chuba Akpom (Hull City), Nacer Chadli (Tottenham), Oscar (Chelsea), Wayne Rooney (Man United) and Calum Chambers(Arsenal) provide the Top 5 goals from English FA Cup fourth-round action.
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Video Pick: A Matt Miazga Farewell
The New York Red Bulls are parting ways with homegrown defender Matt Miazga, who joined the club’s youth program at age 13. Now 20, he played 38 games in MLS, which compiled thismontage of the defender’s feats upon his departure for Chelsea.