What a difference four months can make. This has been one of the wildest and most entertaining Premier League seasons in recent memory and with that comes Monday’s match: Leicester vs Chelsea. Here are 5 things about this match you would NEVER have imagined to be true back in August.
One would think Donald Trump has comfortably used up his stupidity quota for 2015. Just look at these two incidents alone: Wanting to deport anyone who's ever eaten a burrito, and using a stump speech to publicly poke fun at a person's disability.
Football is played all over the world. As cities and nations grow, the stadiums that they build to play football in become beacons of pride, displays of power, and dedications to the game we all love. This video and the following pictures of amazing stadiums show just how monumental and legendary that all of those manifestations can be.
There was a lot of action in Liga MX this week, with Club America and Pumas de la UNAM going at it in the Apertura semifinal.
Not only was America beaten by their city rivals, but they were beaten so badly that Americanistas couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Their team completely fell apart at El Estadio Azteca. The fortress of Las Aguilas del America. Well it wasn’t a fortress that day and for many reasons.These are five reasons why Club America were dominated by Pumas.
The first weekend of December sees huge matches around the globe. Here are the top-five you can’t miss:
MLS Cup, Columbus Crew v. Portland Timbers 4:00 p.m. EST Sunday on ESPN
Got a hankering for international football? You’re in luck. This weekend marks the first international break since early October and features a multitude of unique matchups that will pit European powerhouse nations against one another. All of these games could be previews for the upcoming Euro 2016 tournament that will be played next June in France, with nine of the 10 featured teams having already qualified.
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Fitness and yoga guru Kent Katich knows athletes. A collegiate basketball player himself, he has worked with the likes of the USMNT’s Jermaine Jones, the NBA’s Kevin Love, MLB’s Giancarlo Stanton, and the NFL’s Eddie George. Throughout his experiences with these men, he has built up a knowledge base on how athletes should take care of themselves.
The weather’s growing colder and the winter’s first snow storm is imminent, but that doesn’t mean your soccer game has to go into hibernation too. These indoor soccer tricks and skills are guaranteed to humiliate your opponents and drive your game to the next level.
Indoor soccer provides players with an opportunity to work on their close control, to try tricks and skills that would normally land you a spot on the bench and to focus on scoring the golazo of your dreams.
Now is not the winter of our discontent. Now is the time to play beautiful, my friends.
We’ve all watched our favorite players clambering down the stairs of the team bus looking relaxed and prepared, the very visage of concentration.
Making their way into the bowels of the stadium to make their final preparations before the match, there’s always one constant in their appearance: headphones.
The staple of the modern athlete, these hulking contraptions, along with a carefully crafted pre-game soccer playlist, blot out any external noise, allowing our heroes to stay focused on the task at hand.
Innovation is a game changer. The ability to put forward an exceptional idea, a more effective process or a brilliant new device has always been synonymous with success in the soccer world. This can go the other way though, with the worst soccer innovations making clubs and players look extremely silly.
Whether that success is then measured on the pitch, in the television ratings or with regards to the club’s bottom line, the game’s movers and shakers are always looking for bigger and better solutions.