On March 25, 2015, Major League Soccer announced that Minnesota United FC would be joining the league as a potential 2017 or 2018 expansion team. On February 24, 2016, the next major step in making that announcement a reality was taken in the form of the unveiling of their new St. Paul-based stadium design.
Throughout the entirety of The Walking Dead's six tumultuous seasons, we've encountered our fair share of memorable characters. From the brash, to the sociopathic, to the ones who will certainly die in the next scene, there's been no shortage of personalities gracing this zombified apocalypse. I know of no other arena with its fair share of outlandish, and ocasionally deranged, personas as the wide world of soccer.
Depending on your feelings about foreign kung fu movies and soccer, Shaolin Soccer may or may not be the greatest film of all time. The absurd Hong Kong martial arts comedy has it all: good guy Shoalin monks who use soccer to spread the art of Kung Fu to the world, bad guys who have a team called “Team Evil” that plays against the good guy monks, an evil businessman arch villain supporting Team Evil, and an American drug Team Evil uses to try and beat the previously unbeatable good guy monks.
If all of that sounds like too much, trust me, it is, in the best possible way:
In what has to be one of the weirdest stories we've come across in awhile, a well-meaning friend tried to find his soccer player buddy a cool place to play some football. That's not exactly weird in and of itself. It's more how he did it. He posted the question on a forum for poker players.
It started out exactly as you would expect. There was ridicule and nobody really seemed to take him seriously. I mean, really man? How did you think this was going to work?
The month of Manuary is coming to a close and guys around the world are dreading the fact they won’t have a legit excuse to let their facial hair grow to uncontrollable lengths. For those unaware, Manuary is an unwritten extension of No Shave November and Don’t Shave December, where men tend to grow their beards with disregard to any grooming tools and to combat Mother Nature and Jack Frost’s winter wrath.
Messi won his fifth Ballon d'Or Monday, but his victory may have been overshadowed by the real star of the show, a photo of Cristiano Ronaldo greeting Messi's girlfriend, Antonella Roccuzzo, with Messi looking on awkwardly and Neymar looking like he's about to hop out of his seat and punch Ronaldo in the face.
The fans have spoken! Or, at least, all the redditors on r/soccer have spoken. A lot has happened in the beautiful game since January 1, 2015 and, thanks to Reddit, we discovered what fans consider the best photos in the last 12 months. With over 410 comments and 358 upvotes on the posting, we selected the top 20 photos submitted. If you want to see more of the year in photos, head over to the Reddit thread.
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.