Budweiser’s Poolball
This is one way to get American’s more interested in football/soccer; I am fully in support of this regardless. Who wants to start a league?
(via thedailywhat)
No big deal… it’s just the robotic cloud that they intend to float over the World Cup in Qatar to beat the heat.
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Chad Ochocino begins MLS tryout
Locked out of his day job, Ochocinco opened a four-day tryout with Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday and by the end of his first day with the Major League Soccer team the star receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals was panting for breath.
In 1986, a group of young football (soccer) fans in the island fishing village of Koh Panyee decided to start their own football team. recognizing that their rocky island provided no open space for the sport, the children collected scrap wood and built a floating dock in the middle of the ocean to serve as their field.
The image above is a recreation of that homebuilt floating football field used for an ad campaign by arc worldwide.
Click through to watch a micro-documentary about the real thing.
from designboom, c/o ianbrooks
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“Maybe referees aren’t any worse than they were before – although it seems standards this season have dropped considerably – but what’s clear is that video technology is making them look worse. We can see in seconds if somebody is offside, if a ball has crossed the line, if a tackle is over the top, if a player has elbowed another in the head as he goes by, if anything off the ball has happened, who got the last touch for a disputed corner etc.
“The blanket refusal to use this technology properly is making football look stupid. Especially when FIFA convene meetings to ban the rise of the snood, the greatest threat to the sport for years and years. And as long as they do goals will be wrongly disallowed, points lost, and horrendous challenges like Carragher’s, like Rafael’s, like Shawcross’s, will be unpunished and because of that they’ll put players in danger. At least nobody’s neck will be excessively warm though, that’s the main thing.”
kif:
My reaction at Spurs and Arsenal beating Milan and Barca in 2 days. This would have never happened 10 years ago.
As soon as I saw Szcezsny’s celebration I said “I NEED AN ANIMATED GIF OF THIS” & low and behold, someone created it. Thank you.
The Trolls of Barca visit Arsenal today for the first of two legs between them in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16.
Here’s hoping the Gunners can overcome the 6/1 odds to win!
