[VIDEO PICK: Off the Post] Two players got their cleats entangled on Saturday in the Netherlands and the referee showed one a straight red card for his chosenmethod of getting unstuck. This game in the Dutch Eredivisie finished 2-2, and it was 1-1 in the 48th minute when Sanharib Melki, in black wearing the captain’sarmband […]
off the post
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Klinsmann takes to the skies
[OFF THE POST] It has been said that Jurgen Klinsmann does things a little differently than most other national teamcoaches do. That now applies to how he’s been getting to practice during the national team’s January camp at the Home Depot Center … Grant Wahl atSI.com reports that Klinsmann has been killing two birds with […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Dutch soccer ads are just more adorable
[VIDEO PICK: Off the Post] A new commercial recounts the touching friendship of former Feyenoord star Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his lifelongpal from Diergaarde Blijdorp, a zoo in Rotterdam, which is the team’s new shirt sponsor. Born in Rotterdam, van Bronckhurst started and ended his career with Feyenoord, but in between hewon five league titles […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
The life of a keeper
[VIDEO PICK: Off the Post] A player mocks a keeper for his abject failure between the posts in Turkey while a netminder in Brazil makes a comically sarcasticsave on a weak penalty, such is the life of a goalkeeper. The victim in our first clip is Scott Carson of Bursaspor, who made over 100 appearances […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Hazard kicks ball boy as Chelsea exits Cup
[OFF THE POST] Swansea City earning its first major cup final birth in the club’s centennial season was overshadowed on Wednesday when EdenHazard kicked a ball boy stalling for time in a scoreless Capitol One Cup semifinal in Wales. Chelsea was outplayed over two legs, losing 2-0 on aggregate in the 80th minute atSwansea, when […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Everybody loves furry friendlies
[VIDEO PICK: Off the Post] A pair of canines cavorting in Istanbul brings new meaning to the word friendly in a game between Galatasaray and VfR Aalen ofGermany. We made no effort to ascertain the final score in this contest, confident in our ignorance that any friendly that is still scoreless in the second half […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Save of the season by Peruvian U-20
[VIDEO PICK: Super Stop] The most unbelievable save this season happened at the South American U-20 Championships in Argentina last week. Feel freeto quibble about how, and why, the Peruvian keeper found himself so far outside his own box while trailing Uruguay 3-2 on Thursday. The pair of astronomically impressive savesAngelo Campos makes by ditching […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Multitasking cameraman has skills
[VIDEO PICK: Off the Post] Sideline duties seamlessly meshed with no look dexterity in Oman meant we aren’t quite done with 2012 just yet. Wedon’t have a great deal of information on today’s clip, other than the fact it happened late last year, and it’s the first time we’ve ever had the urge to google […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
The Best of the Worst in 2012
[VIDEO PICK: Off the Post] We’re recognizing the absolute top of the bottom of the barrel with Soccer America’s three least impressive plays of 2012. We’ve done our best to select three surefire humdingers, industry terms. If you don’t like this year’s selections, all you have to do is wait till next year… Casually Terrific […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Elf, Grinch or Goalkeeper — you decide
[VIDEO PICK: Off the Post] Former UNC Asheville goalkeeper Lassi Hurskainen has become something of a one man gang on the Internet showing offhis prowess in and out of net, and now he has a snowbound edition from his native Finland. If you need someone to explain today’s clip, well you’re just gonna have to […]