England vs. France was more than a game because it was just a game.
When the legions of fans who packed Wembley Stadium burst into the French national anthem, nobody cared what the outcome of the game was going to be.
WATCH: Wembley Stadium joins in on singing French national anthem, La Marseillaise, ahead of kickoff. #ENGvFRA https://t.co/A33fVM237x
The “Most Serene Republic” of San Marino has a population of 32,000. It’s 24 square miles in size; it’s a speck surrounded completely by the nation of Italy. It’s shocking that European football's governing body, UEFA, allowed such a small nation — oh, sorry, an "enclaved microstate" — to be a member nation and field a national soccer team, but they have. You could argue San Marino hasn’t stopped paying for it since.
Mathieu Flamini is about to save the world. Maybe.
In the sort of revelation that you don't normally see from footballers, Flamini revealed that he owns a biochemical company, founded in 2008 when he was in Milan, that produces acids that could potentially replace molecules.
The Germany vs. Netherlands friendly that was supposed to take place today has been cancelled, and the stadium evacuated, because officials reportedly discovered a "concrete plan" to detonate a bomb inside the stadium, The Guardian reported.
“We have received concrete information that someone was planning to set off explosives inside the stadium,” Hannover police chief Volker Kluwe told German news agency DPA.
Radamel Falcao is not one of the elite scorers in world soccer anymore. In less than two years, he went from being one of the most feared strikers to, when healthy, just another scrub on the Manchester United and Chelsea benches.
For several months, Falcao has exhibited a low level of football and an impressive goal drought, a far cry from the player who scored 70 goals in 91 games with Atletico Madrid between 2011 and 2013.
With the European Championships right around the corner, kit manufacturers have begun releasing the official Euro 2016 kits for participating national teams.
Some of these designs will have you checking your bank account for expendable cash, while others will invariably have you adjusting your television’s color settings come June.
Here's a look at some of the threads the world's greatest will be sporting in France.
Spain Euro 2016 Kits
Angel Correa was born in on March 9, 1995 in Rosario, Argentina (the same hometown as Lionel Messi). Growing up in a neighborhood riddled with poverty and violence, Correa began his soccer development at age six at local youth clubs Club 6 de Mayo, Alianza Sport, and Tiro. Six years later, Correa was noticed by first-division professional club San Lorenzo in the city of Almagro, where he moved and resided full-time.
At least 40 people have been reported killed (some reports put this number as high as 140) in multiple terror attacks that took place near and during the Germany-France friendly at the Stade de France in Germany. The attack featured several explosive devices, one of which could be heard by spectators and players in the match.
The vine of the Stade de France attack which was easily heard during the France vs Germany football game https://t.co/lcURKXhqpM
Messi is back in training for Barcelona, and to commemorate that event, he's bought himself a new car. Or, at least, we've never seen it before. And, obviously, we have no idea why he bought it. When you have as much money as Messi does, you don't really need to rationalize any of your purchases. You can just make them.
Regardless of his motives in buying it, Messi showed up to training in a sweet blue Audi R8. If you don't think his Audi R8 is cool that's probably because you don't have one and are jealous.
There is no doubt that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are still the top two soccer players in the world today. However, after scoring another goal that will pass into legend, Neymar has fans everywhere wondering how much longer until he catches up to those two.
Some radicals, like legendary Brazilian left-back Roberto Carlos, already claim that Neymar is the better of the three.