Dirty Tackle 18 November @ 03:31 AM EST
Another day, another head shot. This really is the final straw for American girls soccer,
though. I mean, the hair pulling and dirty tackles are one thing, but to take aim and obliterate an
opponent's face like this on a free kick is just way over the line. And totally hilarious.
After the jump, a special bonus DTotD.
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Dirty Tackle 17 November @ 01:03 AM EST
There's a lot to be impressed with in this clip. Mostly in how #20 was able to nail his opponent
square in the face at such a sharp angle and that said opponent quickly recovered to go after
it.
The clip ends too soon, though. I have a feeling #20 didn't come out of that corner
unscathed.
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Dirty Tackle 13 November @ 02:36 AM EST
Compilation Fridays are back and this one is for anyone who thought American girls soccer just
suddenly turned epically violent in the last two weeks. This video is from one high school team
over one season in 2007. There's stuff in there that would make hardened Premier Leaguers take jobs
at Hello Kitty shops.
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Dirty Tackle 12 November @ 03:11 AM EST
Last Saturday's derby between Hamilton and Motherwell produced a few DTotD worthy tackles and
some fine goals, too. Our interest in the game, however, is when Hamilton's overly excited manager,
Billy Reid, celebrates his side's second goal (both scored a man down) by jumping up and grabbing
the advertisement board above the dugout, which he rips off, causing him to fall on his ass (4:28
into the video).
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Dirty Tackle 11 November @ 03:53 AM EST
In a match from Argentina's Liga Regional de San Francisco between Sociedad Sportiva Devoto and
Rivadavia de Rio Primero, the referee showed a red card to a Rio Primero defender for his
goal-saving handball in a way that was either very nice or very creepy, depending on how you look
at it.
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Dirty Tackle 10 November @ 01:49 AM EST
(skip ahead to 15 seconds in)
There are a number of things you shouldn't do when you're a grown man coaching little kids.
Pretty high up on that list is trying to show off while playing against them by blasting a shot
that nearly decapitates one of the smaller children.
I seriously have no idea how that kid got up so fast after getting his (or her?
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Dirty Tackle 09 November @ 01:14 AM EST
Jonny Evans delivered a pretty brutal flying kung fu kick to Didier Drogba's chest, causing
Drogba to drop to the ground and convulse like he just got tased. The reaction was a bit, uh,
exaggerated, but Evans clearly deserved a red for trying to puncture his lung with his boot.
Instead, Drogba's reputation (and spastic leg kicks) got him booked rather than Evans.
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Dirty Tackle 06 November @ 03:46 AM EST
Sao Paulo managed to hold on to a 1-1 draw against Gremio on Wednesday despite having three
players get sent off in the final 15 minutes. Of the three tackles that earned early dismissals, I
think the butt kick/head slap combo (15 seconds in) would have to be the most original.
But if you want to see something that will make the above video look like bingo night at the old
folks home, check out this clip of the MMA battle between the BYU and New Mexico women's teams.
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Dirty Tackle 05 November @ 03:03 AM EST
Manchester United new boy Gabriel Obertan only came on for the final eight minutes of United's
3-3 come from behind draw with CSKA Moscow on Tuesday, but he still managed to get in an off the
ball cheap shot on Deividas Semberas, earning himself a yellow card.
Looks like he's already been hanging around Paul Scholes too much.
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Dirty Tackle 04 November @ 02:44 AM EST
This kid does not take trash talk lightly. If you mouth off to him, he will chase you down the
length of the pitch and smash into you like a freight train, even if you have absolutely zero to do
with what's happening on the ball. And then he'll get up and walk away, satisfied that you want
ever try and express yourself vocally in his presence again.
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Dirty Tackle 03 November @ 02:43 AM EST
From the same game as yesterday's DTotD, we have Amauri's injury time act of frustration. He
tried to be discreet about it, but in most circles kicking a goalkeeper in the face is frowned upon
(as is tossing said goalkeeper's own teammate on top of him after the fact, though to a much lesser
extent), so Amauri was shown a red card and may or may not have hoped that the referee would fall
on the ground so he could kick him in the face, as well.
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Dirty Tackle 02 November @ 04:18 AM EST
Mauro Camoranesi ran face first into Matteo Contini's elbow in the early going of Napoli's 3-2
upset of Juventus on Saturday, which opened up a cut on his forehead that bled like, well, like
something you'd expect to see on Halloween.
Camoranesi had to be substituted in the 31st minute because of his forehead blood spigot, so if
this was just an effort to be festive, I'd say it went a little too far.
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Dirty Tackle 30 October @ 02:33 AM EST
Celtic captain Stephen McManus earned a straight red for his waaaay late challenge on Hearts
striker Andy Driver just before the final whistle in Hearts' 1-0 CIS Insurance Cup quarterfinal win
on Wednesday.
The referee initially only showed McManus a yellow card, but then the assistant ref pulled him
aside and side something to the effect of "Are you serious?
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Dirty Tackle 29 October @ 01:54 AM EST
Simply put: St. Patrick's Athletic striker Mark Quigley gets a yellow card and a fractured jaw
for pulling up as the opposing goalkeeper flies knee first into him. Now, I understand how he got
the fractured jaw, but the yellow card? Not so much.
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Dirty Tackle 28 October @ 01:47 AM EST
If this didn't result in a concussion, it would actually kind of be a thing of beauty. I do
enjoy the cameraman's reaction, though. I'm not sure if he's responding to what just happened on
the pitch or something bellow the view of the lens.
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Dirty Tackle 27 October @ 01:39 AM EST
From Saturday's Ukrainian SuperLiga match between Dnipro and league leaders Dynamo Kiev, we have
Dnipro's Pavlo Pashayev sending Milos Ninkovic on a painful trip through the sky with a terrible
high challenge that earned him a straight red. Even worse? His teammates actually had the gall to
argue the ref's decision.
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Dirty Tackle 26 October @ 01:46 AM EST
Remember when you would fall and hurt yourself when you were little (as opposed to when you were
insanely drunk this past weekend) and your mother would try and trick you into thinking your bruise
or scrape was instantly healed by "kissing it all better"? Well, I'm pretty sure that's what the
Fenerbahce physio does for Roberto Carlos (0:30 into the video above) after he took an Abdulkader
Keita punch to the head in the 74th minute of Fener's 3-1 win over Galatasaray on Sunday.
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Dirty Tackle 23 October @ 12:48 AM EST
This clip appears to be from last season, but it was just posted on YouTube yesterday, so I'm
going to assume it hasn't already made the rounds.
Anyway, here we have Maria Martinez delivering her touchline report during a La Liga match
between Osasuna and Racing Santander (who just so happen to be playing each other this
weekend).
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Dirty Tackle 22 October @ 12:45 AM EST
Wolfsburg stiker Grafite was shown a straight red in Wednesday's Champions League match against
Besiktas for this nonchalant no-look backhand to the face of defender Ibrahim Kas in the 74th
minute.
Had it not been for the cameras and the reaction and, you know, everyone seeing it right away I
think he would have gotten away with the sneaky slap, too.
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Dirty Tackle 21 October @ 12:46 AM EST
Just to prove that we're not all about violence and the infliction of pain here at DT, in lieu
of a bad challenge, today we present Catania's Jorge Martinez doing his Michael Jackson happy dance
after scoring the winning goal against Cagliari last Sunday.
See you don't need broken noses and little kids getting hit in the groin to start your day
right.
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Dirty Tackle 20 October @ 12:41 AM EST
Sampdoria striker Giampaolo Pazzini took a vicious elbow to the nose from Lazio goalkeeper
Fernando Muslera as he tried to punch the ball away during Sunday's match. Pazzini suffered a
"fracture of the nasal bones" and will be out for a month.
Malicious or did Muslera's elbow jut out toward Pazzini's face in some kind of reactionary
attempt to keep the flying striker from landing on him?
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Dirty Tackle 19 October @ 02:35 AM EST
In Saturday's match between Aston Villa and Chelsea, while Chelsea were still winning 1-0,
Nicolas Anelka was tripped up by the touchline and ended up falling backwards into Martin O'Neill,
completely taking out the opposing manager and leaving him with owies on his knee and elbow.
Of course, after that everything went to crap and Villa would go on to win 2-1, so I think the
lesson here is to never cause physical pain to Martin O'Neill.
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Dirty Tackle 16 October @ 02:21 AM EST
Dirty Tackle 15 October @ 12:44 AM EST
You would have to be a straight up mental defective to trip an opponent breaking toward goal
WITH YOUR HANDS in the final minutes of a match with World Cup qualification on the line, having
already been shown a yellow card. But that's exactly what Uruguay's Jose Martin Caceres did against
Argentina.
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Dirty Tackle 14 October @ 01:18 AM EST
Like a mule that kicks anyone who gets too close, this goalkeeper will flip you over his back if
you crowd him while he's collecting the ball. And the strange part is that no one seems to
mind.
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Dirty Tackle 13 October @ 12:49 AM EST
After the shirt exchange that followed the 2-2 draw with Ajax on October 4, Roda's Pa-Modou Kah
found himself wearing Ajax winger Luis Suarez's top. A fine and good show of post-match
sportsmanship until a bit of horseplay in front of the Roda end with teammate Anouar Hadouir
spurred Kah to whip off his opponent's shirt and shove it down the back of his shorts.
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Dirty Tackle 12 October @ 03:04 AM EST
NK Rudar's Marko Kolsi barrels into Drava Ptuj's Rok Kronaveter in a Slovenian PrvaLiga match.
It's like watching a blind kid run into a wall.
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Dirty Tackle 09 October @ 12:50 AM EST
Rangers were really out for blood (and crotches) in last weekend's Old Firm derby, as evidenced
by these two dirty tackles. Neither resulted in a booking, though Lafferty's crotch kick on Celtic
new boy Zheng Zhi was a particularly awful way to welcome someone into the league in his very first
match.
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Dirty Tackle 08 October @ 12:38 AM EST
The international break continues to drag on, so you get more little kids. (If your reaction to
that was a joyous "YES!!" then the authorities will be around to arrest you shortly. Have fun in
jail, perv.)
This girl with the pigtails has a future in the game. Good defensive awareness, great on the
ball, and if you try to go in for a challenge she will headbutt the crap out of you.
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Dirty Tackle 07 October @ 12:49 AM EST
Alright, this kid extremely confused. First of all, he takes down a player off the ball.
Secondly, he does so with an American football tackle. Thirdly, that player he took down was on his
team. Fourthly, that teammate was a girl. Fifthly, his shirt goes down to his knees.
I blame the parents.
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Dirty Tackle 06 October @ 12:26 AM EST
From last week's Copa Sudamericana second leg match between Universidad de Chile and
Internacional Inter's Gonzalo Sorondo gets kicked square in the head by Universidad defender
Osvaldo Gonzalez on his attempt to clear Sorondo's head from his shoulders the ball from inside the
box. There are three insane things about this:
1.
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Dirty Tackle 05 October @ 12:35 AM EST
On a weekend where Sir Alex Ferguson made headlines after Man United's lucky 2-2 draw with
Sunderland on Saturday by saying:
"The fitness of both sets of players, the pace of the game, demanded a referee who was fit. He
[the match ref]'s not fit.
"It's an indictment of our game that we see referees from abroad are fit as butchers' dogs.
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Dirty Tackle 02 October @ 02:18 AM EST
In Wednesday's Eredivisie match between NEC and Utrecht, NEC's Moestafa El Kabir decided to try
and save a ball that was already out of bounds and ended up plowing into the pitchside TV
camera.
This is generally a bad idea. While TV cameras do have weak legs and rarely defend themselves
from an oncoming attack, they are still made of heavy things like metal and.
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Dirty Tackle 01 October @ 12:32 AM EST
The girl needed 14 stitches for that one. And judging by how far she slid, they should probably
test the guy who hit her for head enhancing drugs.
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Dirty Tackle 30 September @ 12:32 AM EST
Today is your lucky day we've got two dirty tackles in one clip for you. That's right, go eat
some expired cheese, because you can't lose!
Anyway, in the first clip young Mr. Joey Richmond gets thrown to the ground (0:30; keep your
eyes on the background in front of the goal) while waiting for a free kick to be taken.
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