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DTotD: Canada’s chiropractor smashes unsuspecting pitch invader

Mexico went to Canada and won 3-0 in a World Cup qualifier, which meant that the best moment of the evening for many fans in attendance was when Canada’s chiropractor absolutely leveled a pitch invader with a bone-crunching tackle from behind.

The man who made the tackle, Garret Kusch, is a former striker for the Canadian national team himself. After retiring in 2001, he became a chiropractor, which apparently involved studying exactly where to hit another person to completely incapacitate them.

Hopefully he slipped the pitch invader his business card for the spinal realignment he will inevitably need after this.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events. 

Christine Sinclair scores excellent spinning volley against Costa Rica

The CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship has produced some brilliant goals and this is another one. Canada’s Christine Sinclair took advantage of a botched clearance attempt by Costa Rica in the semifinals to set herself up for a beautiful spinning volley.

Canada went on to win 3-1 to put them in the final against the U.S., but since both finalists automatically qualify for the Olympic tournament, both sides have already won. Sinclair’s three goals in this tournament put her past Mia Hamm on the international all-time top scorer’s list with 161 goals. Only the recently retired Abby Wambach has more (184).

England women prove that it is still possible for English teams to reach semifinals

The Football Association banned women’ football from 1921 until 1971. Despite this and countless other setbacks, the England women’s team has now done something that the men’s team hasn’t done since 1996: reach the semifinals of a major tournament, thus proving that it is still possible for an English team to do this, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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