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Finally got to look at video of yesterday's stunning upset at the Confederations Cup:

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[edit: looks like they pulled the video with the great commentary. I'm leaving my translation up, because it, more than anything else I've read lately, sums up how stunning and how awesome yesterday's performance was, especially to the rest of the sporting ( Read more... )

Ahead of tonight's Germany/Turkey Euro semifinal, let me just say that I echo the sentiments of many: Let Football be the winner.

I've just come back from a kickaround with a bunch of people from the summer program and our Polish counterparts. Great fun.

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Johan Cruyff on his philosophy of football. This is kind of tough to understand; the interviewer is speaking Catalan and Cruyff answers in Castilian. But, since it's Cruyff, he has a very heavy Dutch accent. At any rate, for those of you who understand neither Catalan, nor Castilian, nor Dutch, a rough translation of the interview:

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The Red and the Black were still winless in three ( Read more... )

Fastest goal ever in the UEFA Champions' League: Roy Makaay, assisted by Hasan Salihamidzic, who scooped up a schoolboy error by Roberto Carlos.

Simply hilarious.

EDIT: Found one with a simultaneous timer.

Las night, I was standing on the Dupont Circle Metro platform when I saw a man wearing a DC United jersey, DCU scarf, and bearing an umbrella ( Read more... )

Today is Bastille Day!

VIVE LA FRANCE!


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EDIT: OK, comments are enabled. have at you!ESPN was correct to carry the US Open golf tournament as its main story for most of these group stages of the Cup. Americans obviously care more about golf than they do about soccer--including those Americans whose job it is, ostensibly, to play soccer ( Read more... )

Ghana 2 - 1 USA ( Read more... )