Players know that the Euros bring a bright, potentially career changing spotlight. Getting noticed during this time can mean big-time transfers, fatter contracts, and new endorsement deals. So Marouane Fellaini and Aaron Ramsey have both attempted to take a shortcut to getting all eyes on them by dying their hair blond. This was a mistake on both counts.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s museum moves to larger site to “welcome Ronaldo’s future trophies”
Cristiano Ronaldo’s self-funded Cristiano Ronaldo museum on his home island of Madeira has moved to a larger site and it did so for a very Cristiano Ronaldo reason.
England team have I Am Zlatan available to read at their Euro 2016 hotel
England have arrived at Auberge du Jeu de Paume — their Chantilly, France hotel and training base for Euro 2016 — so FATV have released a video tour of the facilities they will be inhabiting for the next few weeks.
Copa America Centenario isn’t off to the greatest start
lmao they played Chile’s national anthem instead of Uruguay 😂. Look at the face of GK Muslera loool pic.twitter.com/yXlWLeZz2g
— Shujaat (@DrakesWriter1) June 6, 2016
The special 100th anniversary edition of Copa America hosted by the U.S. was supposed to be a showcase to further strengthen a potential 2026 World Cup bid. But so far it has only been an exhibition of greed and poor planning.
Playing Chile’s national anthem for a confused and angry Uruguay ahead of their match against Mexico at For-Profit University Stadium in Glendale, Arizona was an embarrassing flub that follows a string of poorly attended matches. And the excessive cost to attend these games probably has something to do with that.
Sam Allardyce gave a member of One Direction some kind of piledriver spanking
England beat the Rest of the World team 3-2 in this year’s edition of the Soccer Aid match to benefit UNICEF and Sam Allardyce used this event as an excuse to demonstrate his odd mix of professional wrestling and corporal punishment on One Direction’s Niall Horan.
Neymar is building his brand in the U.S. instead of playing in Copa America
Instead of playing in Copa America Centenario in the U.S., Neymar will represent Brazil at the Olympics in Rio later this summer. While choosing the event being held on his nation’s home soil better serves Brazil’s national interests, one might think that it would prevent him from building his profile in the U.S. — the Copa America host nation. But not playing in the U.S. might actually be giving him a greater opportunity to increase his name recognition within the country than anything he could possibly do on the pitch.
The opening match of the Copa America Centenario is now a thing that has happened
At a purely objectively level, few people thought the U.S. would open the Copa America Cashgrabenario by beating Colombia. Though FIFA rankings are deeply flawed, this was still the No. 31 team in the world facing the No. 3 team in the world.
But memories of advancing through a difficult group at the 2014 World Cup and months of hype leading up to a special tournament designed specifically to be played in the United States encouraged a uniquely American brand of optimism to grow in the lead-up to the tournament’s first match. And then an underwhelming Colombia beat the U.S. 2-0, with goals from a corner kick and a penalty that resulted from a handball. Oh, and James Rodriguez left with an injury in the 73rd minute.
FC Dallas and Houston Dynamo tried to play in a swimming pool
Meahwhile, in Dallas… #rainy pic.twitter.com/8MW8ciOfS4
— Nate Dowdle (@nmdowdle) June 3, 2016
Remember the Bishop from Caddyshack who played a round of golf in a biblical storm? Well apparently that guy is real and now an MLS referee. The match officials for FC Dallas v Houston Dynamo decided to attempt to play in the worst conditions this side of Noah’s Arc.
The two sides actually played four minutes of handsfree water polo before the match was finally halted.
Look at this nonsense…
DTotD: Bruno Alves sent off for kicking Harry Kane in the head
Harry Kane was nearly decapitated just before Euro 2016 when Portugal’s Bruno Alves proved that he does still have the flexibility to kick people in the head at the age of 34 during the final tune-up friendly at Wembley.