Category: USA

Andrea Pirlo is making out with his girlfriend at Yankee Stadium

Andrea Pirlo is reportedly on the verge of signing with New York City FC (and, by extension, Man City), so he was in attendance at their New York derby match against the Red Bulls with his family. And he was feeling saucy. 

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Real Salt Lake score with free kick routine that will sexually arouse Arsene Wenger

Real Salt Lake opened the scoring in their 2-2 draw with Columbus by pulling off a well rehearsed and perfectly executed free kick routine that left their opponents befuddled. The ball Kyle Beckerman played off the initial free kick was just splendid.

Watch that on repeat and let all your troubles melt away.

Clint Dempsey is sorry, presumably that he didn’t tear up more than just the ref’s notebook

Following his three-match ban in MLS for tearing up the referee’s notebook during a U.S. Open Cup match, Clint Dempsey has now been banned from the U.S. Open Cup itself for two years or six matches, whichever is greater. Shortly after this punishment was announced, Dempsey tweeted a rather unconvincing apology.

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DTotD: Real Salt Lake player goes up for a header, forgets about existence of the post right in front of him

Real Salt Lake’s Luke Mulholland was so focused on the ball while going up for a header while basically standing inside the goal that he forgot that everything else existed and jumped directly into the goal post.

The only way he could have played this off well is if he got up and demanded that the ref show the post a yellow card.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events. 

Clint Dempsey sent off after tossing and tearing up the ref’s book during crazy US Open Cup match

Fierce rivals Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers met in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup and the resulting match surpassed anything anyone could have dreamed up. Read more

U.S. beat Germany with late stunner, become Friendly Champions of the World

Proving that the scare they gave Germany in the last World Cup was no fluke, the United States beat Germany 2-1 in Germany to become the Friendly Champions of the World. Bobby Wood scored the winner in the 87th minute, giving the 22-year-old his second late winner in as many matches after doing the same to the Netherlands last in a 4-3 friendly win last week. And by the way, those happen to be his first two international goals, as well.

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