Outrageous

This, um, is not how you're supposed to act during a soccer game. You're supposed to be nice and play soccer. UMass Boston did neither of these things, unless you count punting the ball into a guy's face as "playing soccer".

We do not count punting the ball into the guy's face as "playing soccer", although we will note that of the five violent things UMass Boston players did in that video, that was the least-violent thing. Punting a ball is less violent that elbowing, eye-raking, headlocking and headbutting.

On a day when we've questioned everything and discussed some of the stranger red card offenses in the history of the game, this should come as no surprise. In Sunday's draw between Greece and Bosnia we witnessed one of the most ridiculous red cards of all-time. The culprit was Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko, who earned a second yellow by stripping Greece's Sokratis.

Antonio Ferreira received a straight red card for ‘shielding’ the ball from a defender, relying a little too heavily on his elbow to maintain possession. That was only the beginning of the violence from Ferreira, with the Mirassol Futebol Clube defender going absolutely mental after receiving his marching orders.

FIFA 17 was released on September 27, 2016, giving players just over a month now to work on mastering the new version of the EA Sports soccer simulation. Some players have already gone beyond mastery level, bending the rules and laws of the game to score on bicycle kicks from 25 yards out.

The rabona method of kicking the ball hardly ever results in anything other than a change of possession. While many ridiculously talented players have successfully performed a rabona in competition, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Arjen Robben, it’s extremely rare that the method leads to anything apart from a largely ineffective attempt at crossing the ball.

More than being an effective striking method, it’s generally utilized as a demonstration of personal ability and tekkers.

Seriously, how did no one notice he was outside the box? We understand if the defenders and/or keeper noticed and just pretended everything was cool to try and fool people, but the ref, assistant ref, guy who shot the ball and his teammates should have maybe been paying attention and said something.

Oh well.

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