It's rare to see players fighting out on the field during a soccer match. In hockey it's almost expected, but in soccer it's almost unheard of. That's why this new video showing a Bringham Young University player elbowing, punching and pulling hair is making it's way around the internet like wildfire.

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Cristiano Ronaldo will be out for at least two more weeks after being off of the field for a month. Doctors confirmed to Real Madrid managers and coaches that Ronaldo should refrain from practices and games until his ankle fully heals. Ronaldo was injured during a Championship League Game last month.

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'Beckham and kid' via Kickette
'Bent's twitter boots' via The Spoiler
'Brazilian love' -- via Futbolita
'Beckham's footie art' -- via Dirty Tackle
'Kai Rooney's twitter' -- via Off the Post
'Dempsey is back' -- via The Original Winger
'Nasty KC throwback' -- via Hillcrest Road
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1. Balloongate via The Guardian
2. Halloween footie via Dirty Tackle
3. Juggling Iker via Futbolita
4. Maradona mural via Noticias
5. Shamans cure C-Ron via Daylife
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The U10 lads are in a bit of a slump as it turns out. Last weeks loss and yesterday a 5-3 loss. Now the lads are 4w's and 3l's with no D's. It was one of those games that didn't auger well - the other team only had 6 so I agreed (not my best decision in hindsight) to match them 6 on 6.
Of course, it was disruptive because we've been playing well with a 2-1-2-1 outfield - so I have to take part of it on the chin. Click to continue reading...

Mia Hamm of the United States has been named as ambassador for the 2011 Women's World Cup Games in Germany. The prestigious honor means that Hamm will be going around the world to represent the games and help promote women's soccer. She was named world player of the year back in 2001 and has brought home gold medals for the United States for the last two summer Olympic games.

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Toby from The Office [US Edition]
Bolton Manager Gary Megson
Here in North America the most popular footie highlights review show is The Fox Soccer Report, an hour-long hodgepodge of highlights and analysis delivered with Canadian accents and covering football from all around the world. Click to continue reading...

Nike Manchester United Line Up Jacket - White with Black

I gotta say that Manchester United has a some of the best looking jackets and jerseys in the English Premier League, or any league for that matter. I have a Man. United black sweater that I wear all the time and now I just got the new Nike Manchester United Black/White Jacket. Click to continue reading...

It isn't my intention to steal the MMM's thunder but I figured I'd throw out a few observations from my weekend of watching a pretty crazy amount of footie... 1. This is definitely the year where forwards are re-establishing themselves as the league's goal-getters. In recent seasons we've seen the ascent of CRon, Lamps, Gerrard, Ashley Young, and others among the league's top goal scorers. Click to continue reading...

There is a news circulating that South Africa plans on kicking off the 2010 World Cup games by 'sacrificing' a cow (check out the article at Yahoo.com). This of course is upsetting some people as they seem to care if a cow get's killed. South Africa is defending their decision by stating that the ceremony needs to be blessed 'African Style' for the games to run smoothly.

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The Seattle Sounders shut down any hopes for the F.C. Dallas winning the Major League Soccer Cup this year by eliminating them from the playoffs. Saturday night's game at the Qwest Fields in Seattle was a saddening loss for Dallas when they let in two goals, ending the game 2-1.

Sigi Schmid waves to the fans, in a 3-0 Seattle Sounders victory over the New Your Red Bulls, Thursday, March 19, 2009.

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In France's Ligue 1 the defending Bordeaux F.C. champions fought to retake the lead in their division. It was a special game for the Bordeaux Girondins after defeating Les Mans 3-0 to retake the one point lead over Monaco. Also in the league Lyon lost to Nice 4-1.

Bordeaux has been trying to stay on the top of the league after winning last years Ligue 1 cup.

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The 2010 World Cup in South Africa looms ever closer as teams from around the world compete for a chance to play in the worlds most prestigious sporting event. The FIFA World Cup Games begin on June 1th this summer and will run until July 11th. Only 32 nations will be honored enough to play in the games.

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On April 26, 2007 Will Brooks had the bright idea of re-inventing the way soccer is managed. He started MyFootballClub.com, a site that is basically a community of fans who get together and play a fantasy soccer, except the team is real. The community of members pooled all of their money and collectively purchased Ebbsfleet United, a soccer club that plays in the Conference National League in England.

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It was a blow to the United States soccer community to learn of the recent accident involving Charlie Davies age 23. He was involved in a deadly vehicle accident that left one passenger dead at the scene.

Charlie Davies. US Men's National Team vs Honduras at Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

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It was decided in today's game that Germany and Italy will be joining the ranks of other countries who have made it into the World Cup qualifying matches. Denmark as well as Serbia can be proud to also have the chance to play in the World Cup after beating out France. So far, the countries that still remain undecided are Switzerland and Slovakia, whose fate will be decided this Wednesday.

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The Toronto FC soccer club has gone from bad to worse for midfielder Carl Robinson. Toronto FC are three points behind a spot that would give them a chance to play towards the MLS Cup this year and they have no hope of making it. To make matters worse Robinson collided with a team member during practice injuring his face.

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There's more trouble brewing for Serbian Soccer. The FIFA has decided ti fine the Serbian National Soccer Association 25,000 Swiss Francs over the latest incident at a Serbian/France World Cup Qualifying match. Rowdy fans decided to throw fire crackers and lighters onto the soccer pitch at French players.

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Oh wow. It's like N'Sync became a new footie-themed boy band called the Backpass Boys. Obviously Danleigh Borman is the Justin Timberlake of the bunch but when it comes to who is the Joey Fatone I'm out of answers. You know what would make them really bump though? A posse cut remix by Youri Djorkaeff featuring the ESC on hypeman duty. Click to continue reading...

David Beckham is starting it all over again. He's talking to LA Galaxy club coach and managers about his desire to be loaned out to AC Milan for another season. While Beckham's last visit to Milan lasted longer than agreed upon, he returned to a team who acted like they didn't want him back.

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It's a lovely fall day here at Fullback World Headquarters, so let's take a few moments to enjoy the crisp, cool air...the leaves going to gold and scarlet...the bright sun and billowing white clouds...and some American Footie news! Deuce's Bum... Click to continue reading...

Extra Footie is reporting that Fulham are interested in buying Brek Shea from FC Dallas for £2 million. Good for him. I know he's a top prospect for the USA and Dallas, but I was pretty unimpressed with his performance at the u-20 world cup.

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ESPN reviewed our win over Benfica in the Europa League here.

UEFA published not one, but two seperate articles on the match. You can read them here and here.

PortuGOAL's coverage here.

Sky Sports covered the game as well; article posted here.

Article on the entire Group I by Extra Footie here.

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The small quiet town of Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia/Herzegovina was the scene of a horrific act of violence yesterday Sunday afternoon October 4th, 2009 when a trainload of soccer fans from Sarajevo arrived to watch the match.

Siroki Brijeg - Bosnia/Herzegovina

The game played between the two teams was friendly, but what was going on in the streets was anything but.

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Jeff Baker at New University wrote an interesting article today about David Beckham and his contributions (or lack thereof) to the development of soccer in North America. It's true that this is a tough market to crack. We seem to love technical games like football and baseball or fighting games like boxing, ultimate fighting, wrestling and hockey.

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In a historic turn of events the Kuwaiti soccer club will be visiting Iraq for the first time since the first Gulf War to play in the AFC Cup's quarterfinals. Iraq's Irbil club have been pinned up against the Kuwait Sports Club in what looks like a battle to the finish. Iraq won the Aisia Cup last season and have proven themselves the stronger contenders.

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The traditional after match soccer handshake will be banned in minor league soccer games throughout Canada for fear of spreading the H1N1 virus. The move was decided by league members who have said that everyone needs to do more to stop the spread of the swine flu virus. The flu is spread from infected people to others through handshakes, fluids or air.

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The Liverpool FC Stadium was scheduled to be completed by summer of 2010 but because of the global economic downturn that date will be moved back some. The brand new $600 million stadium was originally going to have a seating capacity of over 60,000 though that number has been significantly raised to include over 73,000 seats.

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It seems that David Beckham will do anything these days to be in an advertisement. I would have expected more underwear posters but this time it will be in a Star Trek outfit. Beckham and Noel Gallagher of Oasis were seen at a London photoshoot dressed as undisclosed Start Treck Characters.

It's still unknown what the commercial was for except that it will involve Beckham, Gallagher, Ian Brown, Snoop Dogg, Agyness Deyn and Daft Punk.

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The Liverpool FC have confirmed rumors that they are looking for more investors who could own part of the team. Current owners George Gillett Jr. and Tom Hicks have said that they are looking to find someone who could help finance their new stadium and front their current $424.

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So I'm a couple of glasses in (Cabernet) but the Loko performance tonight was sublime. Marc, Jon, Ronny, Chris A, Chris Re, Chris Ro, Mike K, Mike M, Nick Esp and Benny D and me did the magic tonight. 2-0 and all about the commitment and the toil.
It was truly hairy chested footie, boiled down, essence like. Click to continue reading...

So I'm a couple of glasses in (Cabernet) but the Loko performance tonight was sublime. Marc, Jon, Ronny, Chris A, Chris Re, Chris Ro, Mike K, Mike M, Nick Esp and Benny D and me did the magic tonight. 2-0 and all about the commitment and the toil.
It was truly hairy chested footie, boiled down, essence like. Click to continue reading...

It's another case of savage fighting between rival soccer fans which left one dead and several injured. A 28 year old died in his hospital bed after sustaining injuries that cause serious brain damage. The fighting broke out in Belgrade, Serbia at a bar on September 17th.

The bar fight broke out between two rival groups and 11 people were subsequently arrested.

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From the high of last Tuesday's Loko game to the ignominy of our indisciplined loss 5-0 to Avanti on Thursday. Jason's eye wasn't back to normal, Nick Esp and a few of the other lads were out so we just had eleven. But with us 0-0 at half time we were feeling good.
Artur lost it with the ref, Boyley decided that since we're 2-0 down we should drop the 4-1-4-1 since we might as well lose 5-0 as 2-0 and that's precisely what happened. Click to continue reading...

From the high of last Tuesday's Loko game to the ignominy of our indisciplined loss 5-0 to Avanti on Thursday. Jason's eye wasn't back to normal, Nick Esp and a few of the other lads were out so we just had eleven. But with us 0-0 at half time we were feeling good.
Artur lost it with the ref, Boyley decided that since we're 2-0 down we should drop the 4-1-4-1 since we might as well lose 5-0 as 2-0 and that's precisely what happened. Click to continue reading...