Well, someone had to try it.
During the 2024 Copa America’s third place match between Canada and Uruguay this Saturday, The Maples’ goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair was given a booking for doing the unprecedented during a penalty shoot-out.
Canada’s Dayne St. Claire reads and hides Uruguay goalkeeper’s penalty cheat sheet
While the world and the United States continue to be mesmerized by the Euros and Copa América this summer, MLS still finds ways to stay relevant. Not exactly your goal of the week or silky move highlight, though.
Zorhan Bassong red card vs. FC Dallas
During Sporting Kansas City and FC Dallas’ MLS Matchday 22 match on Sunday, defender Zorhan Bassong was sent off following a messy altercation with Dallas’ Paul Arriola in the closing minutes of the game.
History was made at CPKC Stadium Friday night as Temwa Chawinga became the first player to launch a ball outside the building and into the Missouri River. KC Current would defeat the Houston Dash 2-0.
The Chawinga river ball shot saw her effort soar over the goal, over the stands and eventually become aquatic. The home fans went nuts.
Chawinga river ball shot
IT'S IN THE RIVER!!! HISTORY IN KANSAS CITY!
Do you remember those old Dos Equis commercials with “the most interesting man in the world” guy? Ukraine and Chelsea star Mykhailo Mudryk is like the soccer version of that as you never know what he’s going to do next.
The latest thing the Ukraine forward has garnered attention for are the Mudryk cat shin guards. Yes, the 23-year-old has custom shin guards with his cat’s face on them.
Mudryk cat shin guards
The Daniel Sturridge Alexi Lalas clip from FOX’s coverage of England vs. Denmark is absolute gold.
Sturridge is part of FOX’s coverage of Euro 2024, and you actually see the regret in his eyes on TV as he’s forced to sit next to Lalas. If there’s one thing most American fans can agree on it’s that listening to Lalas for too long can drive a person insane.
Truly Hard Seltzer is the official hard seltzer of U.S. Soccer and recruited two stars for a humorous new ad. The Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie Truly shower commercial is 28 seconds of pure gold.
There’s nothing quite like having a beverage in the shower. If you’ve done it before then you know what I’m talking about and if you haven’t then you’re missing out.
Truly has now become “The Official Shower Beverage of U.S. Soccer.”
Koeman is going band-for-band with Joachim Löw. And not exactly for their managerial skills.
The Netherlands won their first three points after coming back and defeating Poland 2-1 in the first match of Group D on Sunday.
Poland’s Adam Bursa opened the scoring in the first 15 minutes of the game, with the Netherlands turning the game around through Cody Gakpo and the clutch-substitute Wout Weghorst just seven minutes before the end of the match.
Saturday’s festivities began with a viral video of an Albania fan breaking spaghetti in front of Italy fans. That was a declaration of war.
The video spread like wildfire across the internet as the precious pasta of Italia was destroyed for all to see.
Albania fan breaking spaghetti
Tw: Italianophobia
Albanian fans snapped spaghetti in front of Italian fans ahead of the Italy-Albania Euro 2024 match. pic.twitter.com/7c3c5rByOI
The Euro is already capturing one-of-a-kind moments.
Switzerland were able to snatch their first three points of Euro 2024 after defeating Hungary in a very entertaining start to the trio of group stage matches on Saturday, with Swiss striker Breel Embolo scoring one of the most peculiar goals you’ll see in the tournament.
Embolo scores winner for Switzerland with leg brace coming off his foot
Argentina defeated Guatemala 4-1 Friday night at FedEx Field near Washington D.C. in a friendly with Lionel Messi scoring twice. The first Messi goal vs Guatemala came after a terrible goalkeeper blunder and gave the Inter Miami star the easiest goal of his career.
In the 12th minute Guatemala had a surprise 1-0 lead against the defending world champions. Disaster then struck in the Guatemalan penalty area as goalkeeper Nicholas Hagen had a careless giveaway.
If there’s one guy you don’t want to give the ball away to in front of your goal, it’s Messi.