Neymar is simply stunning to watch play. He is everything that we hope a Brazilian superstar would be: creative, unpredictable, lightning on the pitch. He was just ranked as the third-best footballer in the world by The Guardian because he marries these qualities with effectiveness. It’s ironic then, that arguably Neymar’s best play of the year wound up ineffective.
James Rodriguez led his Colombia squad through an epic keepy-uppy bin challenge ahead of their World Cup qualifying clash against Argentina on Tuesday. If you haven't seen one of these challenge videos before, it's a pretty simple concept.
A group of players move the ball in an orderly fashion, never letting it touch the ground, using only their heads. After everyone in the rotation has headed the ball, the final player must head the ball into an empty waste bin.
El clima es cada vez más frío y la primera tormenta de nieve del invierno es inminente, pero eso no significa que tu juego de fútbol también tenga que entrar en hibernación. Estos trucos y habilidades de fútbol sala están garantizados para humillar a tus oponentes y llevar tu juego al siguiente nivel.
El fútbol sala les brinda a los jugadores la oportunidad de trabajar en su control más cercano, de probar trucos y habilidades que normalmente le darían un lugar en la banca y de concentrarse en marcar el golazo de sus sueños.
We’ve seen Neymar Jr. take on Messi in a keepy up challenge and give the legend a close run for his money.
Now the Brazilian is taking his skills to a whole new level to juggle some everyday household objects. Take a look.
He makes it look too easy.
HOOOOOOOOOO-K. What the hell have I just witnessed? The YouTube title told me that Cesar Martinez of the Venezuelan side Zamora was going to make the ball levitate, and I guess I don’t know what I was expecting, because I wasn’t expecting to watch him actually make the ball levitate. When did soccer become another edition of David Blain Street Magic? The only magic I’m supposed to see on the pitch is done with feet and is easily discernible in slow motion. This magic celebration, it’s something else entirely.
Sometimes an idea comes to you on the pitch and you just gotta go with it. Great players all over the world will tell of how certain plays they make come down to muscle memory, or that they weren’t really sure how they knew what they were doing was the right thing at the time they were doing it. Of course, they know what they are doing the vast majority of the time, but they do sometimes act completely out of instinct.
Literally two seconds into this video, you get hooked. One guy nutmegs Man City, and it is amazing.
When Real Madrid played Espanyol two weekends ago, no one expected anything other than a commanding Madrid victory, and that’s exactly what happened. No one player was a bigger manifestation of that dominance than Cristiano Ronaldo. He scored 5 goals that day, ending the season’s first prematurely controversial goal drought at just 2 games. He would go on to score a hat trick three days later in the Champions League.
We have no actual proof that freestyle world champions Laura Biondo and Andrew Henderson are actually a couple. We only have a youtube video called “soccer relationship goals,” and the fact that watching the two go about their business is one of the most unique displays of chemistry that we have ever seen.
We have never seen anything quite like this. The concentration involved in this video of a boy juggling a soccer ball while solving a Rubik's cube is simply staggering.
And here we are having trouble patting our heads and rubbing our stomachs at the same time.
Seriously, someone give this kid a job. If he has the powers of concentration to do what he does in this video, he can surely revive America's stumbling economy or cure cancer or something. Child labor laws be damned, we are looking at the savior of humanity here. Or he's just a kid who can do a cool trick.