Toronto FC came back to beat Montreal 3-1 and after the match, the winning side’s goalkeeper, Chris Konopka celebrated by high fiving a couple fans behind his goal and then taking a swig from one of their beers.
No wonder MLS has become such an attractive destination for players. Win and they get rewarded with high fives and free beer.
Chile beat defending Copa America champions Uruguay 1-0 in an expectedly feisty quarterfinal match. With Luis Suarez unavailable to lead everyone down the path of anarchy, the responsibility fell to everyone else. And in the 62nd minute, Edinson Cavani was shown a second yellow for slapping Chile’s Gonzalo Jara in the face.
But what the referee and the initial camera angle didn’t catch was where Jara’s hand was before Cavani slapped him…
For the third consecutive time, England have been eliminated in the group stage of the U-21 European Championship, ensuring that the senior team’s next generation is prepared for the soul-crushing international career that awaits them.
A 3-1 loss to Italy left England at the bottom of their group (just like the senior team at last summer’s World Cup), in which Portugal and Sweden advance to semifinal dates against Germany and Denmark, respectively. This allowed the England players to get valuable experience in looking disappointed while wearing an England shirt…
Japan’s second goal against the Netherlands in the Women’s World Cup was a sequence of perfection. It couldn’t have been executed better if they practiced that alone for the last three weeks. It ended up being absolutely necessarily too, since they ended up conceding a goal at the opposite end of the spectrum during injury time.
The Netherlands had a chance to take an early lead against Japan when Manon Melis slipped past the world champions’ back line, but then her right foot thought “dribble” just before her left foot thought “shoot.” This proved to be a problem.
Melis ended up on the ground as the ball trickled over the endline and Japan went up 1-0 a few minutes later. This was very much out of character for Melis, however. She was voted the top player in Sweden’s Damallsvenskan in 2010 and she has 55 international goals in 125 appearances.
But these things can happen to anyone. Just ask Steven Gerrard…
The United States beat Colombia 2-0 in the Women’s World Cup round of 16. But that’s just the rug that all the dirt was swept under.
It should come as no surprise that the world’s angriest mascot belongs to a Scottish club. With that said, this is Kingsley, a melting star and the physical manifestation of the phrase “u wot m8?”
According to Uruguayan journalist Victor Hugo Morales, Diego Maradona plans to run for FIFA president. The World Cup winner previously suggested he would be vice president of FIFA if Prince Ali is elected to replace Sepp Blatter. But now it seems he has set his sights higher and, naturally, he has some ideas on how he can improve FIFA.
Immediately after Argentina beat Jamaica 1-0 in the final round of the Copa America group stage, Reggae Boyz striker DeShorn Brown ran to grab his phone and took a selfie with Lionel Messi.
Ouch! Luke Mulholland goes up for a clearing header … and hits the near post instead. #RSLvSKC #MLSonFOX http://t.co/gwOtK19see
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 22, 2015
Real Salt Lake’s Luke Mulholland was so focused on the ball while going up for a header while basically standing inside the goal that he forgot that everything else existed and jumped directly into the goal post.
The only way he could have played this off well is if he got up and demanded that the ref show the post a yellow card.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.