Ramires is heated in China. We do not know what happened before this video started rolling, all we know is he got a red card and now he is super heated at this referee, so heated that it takes like every other player on his team to keep him from assaulting this ref.
Meanwhile in the Chinese Super League..Ex-Chelsea player Ramires tries to attack the referee after getting red card!pic.twitter.com/TmaU0UQvTg
And here we were thinking that football was over until August 3rd and the start of the Rio Summer Olympics tournament. The latest news from India is the announcement of the inaugural Premier Futsal League to be hosted in the cities of Chennai and Goa.
Not too long ago, the whole world was fixated as a handful of Chinese Super League clubs raided European teams for talent during the January transfer window. These weren't just over-the-hill players looking for one last paycheck. These were world-class players in their prime.
Graziano Pelle, who scored 11 Premier League goals in 30 appearances for Southampton last season, is about to make as much money as Zlatan Ibrahimovic after accepting a transfer to Chinese side Shandong Luneng.
The Italian international had been wanted by the likes of Chelsea and Everton, but he’s decided to leave Southampton in a £13 million transfer while signing a contract that will pay him £13.6 million per year for two years.
Twenty-nine-year-old Brazilian striker Hulk is set to smash the Asian transfer record fee, previously held by Brazilian Alex Teixeira, as he completes his $61.2 million move from Zenit St Petersburg to Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG.
Hulk will reportedly earn in excess of $42,000 per week with the Chinese club.
Kazuyoshi Miura, a.k.a. "King Kazu," broke his own goalscoring record as he headed in a goal for Yokohama FC against FC Gifu this weekend. At an unbelievable 49 years, three months and 24 days, King Kazu broke his own record as the oldest goalscorer in Japan's J-League 2.
There’s a famous SpongeBob SquarePants episode called “Idiot Box” where both SpongeBob and his best friend, Patrick Star, inhabit an empty cardboard box, allowing them to climb mountains, launch space shuttles and venture to “Robot-Pirate Island”, all with the power of their own imagination.
Xavi Hernandez is still making the game of football look effortless in Qatar, and the former Barcelona and Spain star is on the verge of adding another trophy to his cabinet. For those keeping count, this would be number 627.
For those of you wondering how footballers will manage to perform in the sweltering heat of a Qatarian World Cup, Xavi has the answer: slowly but surely.
Earlier this year many of us heard the heartwarming story of Murtaza Ahmadi – a 5 year old boy from Afghanistan who admires Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi. When pictures of little Murtaza in his homemade Messi “jersey,” made from a blue and white striped plastic bag, went viral Messi and his team took notice. Messi autographed an actual jersey for his young fan and had it delivered to the boy in eastern Afghanistan. A touching gesture that shows the global reach of the beautiful game.
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