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DTotD: Free kick to the face

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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DTotD: Ball to the face

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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DTotD: Not Elizabeth Lambert

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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DTotD: Celebration fail

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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DTotD: Affectionate ref

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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DTotD: Worst. Coach. Ever.

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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DTotD: Studs in the chest

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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DTotD: Three reds

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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DTotD: Classy, Obertan

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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DTotD: I want him on my team

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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DTotD: Keeper head kick

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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DTotD: It’s a gusher

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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DTotD: A bit late

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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DTotD: Insult to injury 2

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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DTotD: Synchronized injuries

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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DTotD: He’s flying

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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DTotD: Did he kiss it all better?

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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DTotD: Lady reporter smashed

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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DTotD: Grafite slap

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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DTotD: Pelvic thrusts of joy

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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DTotD: Pazzini’s nose

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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DTotD: Anelka v Martin O’Neill

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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DTotD: Maradona’s savior

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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DTotD: Flip off

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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DTotD: Shirt in his shorts

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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DTotD: Kamikaze mission

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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DTotD: Old Firm ugliness

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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DTotD: Pigtailed headbutt

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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DTotD: So very wrong

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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DTotD: Kicked in the head

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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DTotD: Fat ref crotch shot

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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DTotD: Camera tackle

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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DTotD: Face Smash

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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DTotD: Two for one

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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