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To celebrate his move from Santos to Barcelona, Neymar decided to get a tattoo to let everyone know just how he feels. Before Brazil’s international friendly vs. England, the 21-year old had the word “blessed” tattooed below his neck.
Let’s hope the stay at the Nou Camp goes well to avoid any nasty ink removal procedures.
The U.S. men’s national team better remember to send a thank you card to Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen. The keeper gave the USMNT an absolute gift of an own goal with this terrible effort in the first half of their friendly match.
Facing pressure from the U.S. midfielders, Benedikt Howedes sent a back pass to ter Stegen but the young keeper misplayed the ball worse than anyone could have imagined. The ball slipped past him to give the U.S. their second goal of the half en route to a 4-3 victory over Germany.
Manuel Neuer can rest assured that no one will be taking his starting keeper spot for Germany any time soon.
USMNT vs. Germany friendly
USMNT vs. Germany friendly
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In an effort to support The Victim Relief Fund of One Fund Boston, the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Team will be wearing a Boston Strong logo on their game jerseys and pre-game warmups for their upcoming matches.
The USMNT will take on Germany today at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. while the USWNT will face Korea Republic on June 15th at Gilette Stadium less than an hour from downtown Boston.
From U.S. Soccer:
With the support of each of the respective Players’ Association, all of the jerseys and warm-up tops will be signed by the players of the respective U.S. teams and auctioned off on ussoccer.com to benefit The Victim Relief Fund of The One Fund Boston. All proceeds will assist the families of the victims who were killed and the victims who were most seriously affected as a result of the tragic events during the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 and related events on April 18 and 19.
U.S. Soccer will announce more information about the two auctions in the coming weeks.
FA TV may have found the biggest Chelsea fan in South America.
With England in Rio for a friendly match with Brazil, fans are getting very excited, none more than this diehard Chelsea supporter. He has gone as far to say he supports no teams in Brazil, only his beloved Chelsea. He named his backyard Stamford Bridge and even named his son after a team legend.
The day Chelsea knocked Barcelona out of the 2012 Champions League his son was born, and to honor the club he named his baby son after all-time leading scorer Frank Lampard.
Lampard was not part of the visit so he did not have a chance to meet young Leandro Lampard, but he was humbled to hear the story.
“I wasn’t there unfortunately, but I did hear about it,” Lampard said. “I would like to meet the father and the kid because it’s an honor. It would be an honour if someone from London did that, but for someone from Brazil to do it… what can you say to that?”
We’ll keep our eye on little “Lampardinho” as he rises the Brazilian youth soccer ranks.
You’ve probably heard this already, but, Germany are pretty good at soccer. Lukas Podolski made known as much, scoring just 9 seconds (NINE!) into Wednesday’s friendly match against Ecuador. Podolski, who is fighting to keep his place as a starter, broke Germany’s national team record for fastest goal scored, then added a second goal later in the match in a 4-2 win.
USA vs. Belgium
The FC Zurich women are not messing around. The Swiss team has played 22 matches, winning all of them, scoring 125 goals while only allowing nine. Apparently they aren’t facing tough enough competition, so they are looking to take a crack at one of the top clubs in the world, FC Barcelona.
They’ve challenged Barca to a friendly match on the evening of May 25th, and given that it is the same day as the Champions League final, Barcelona’s calendar should be wide open. The ladies have gone so far as offering to play on Barcelona’s home turf.
The only question left for Barcelona: “Do you have the balls?”
By FOX Sports Midwest
Since opening in 2006, Busch Stadium has seen its fair share of activity. From Dave Mathews to Bono to oh yeah, those two St. Louis Cardinals World Series Championships mixed in with plenty of high-quality baseball, the iconic venue gets put to good use.
On Thursday, May 23rd the Stadium will welcome a new sport onto the hallowed grounds of Baseball Heaven when Premier League clubs Chelsea and Manchester City square off in an international soccer friendly. The match marks the first professional, non-baseball sporting event hosted at the new Busch Stadium.
Read more here.
