Tag: Euro 2016

Croatia ban their own fans from Euro qualifiers to prevent more racist incidents

Despite sitting at the top of Euro 2016 qualifying group H, Croatia fear they could be dumped from the competition in their next match. This fear isn’t based in competitive concerns, though. It’s rooted in the growing number of racist incidents perpetrated during their games. So they’ve taken the extreme step of banning their own fans from their next three away matches in an effort to send the message that this behavior has to stop.

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic hypnotizes children, Montenegro defense

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How would you look if a mythical creature appeared before you, bathing you in a majestic light and revealing all that is good to you? Eight-year-old Melwin Löwdahl and 10-year-old Frank Johansson Czarnecki discovered the answer to this question when they came face to face with Zlatan Ibrahimovic before Sweden’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Montenegro.

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Moldova keeper blasts clearance off Zlatan’s head for a goal

Such is the power of Zlatan Ibrahimovic that he can suck the ball towards his own head and score without even trying. He demonstrated this skill in Sweden’s match against Moldova, when the opposing keeper attempted a simple clearance but blasted the ball directly into Zlatan’s head instead, causing it it to ricochet back into his own net.

This gave Sweden a 1-0 lead in the 46th minute and proves that Zlatan is powerful enough to make you concede goals to him without even moving.

Zlatan later fired a laser beam of a penalty into the top corner to give Sweden a 2-0 win.

Harry Redknapp thinks England should “give up” if they don’t win Euro 2016

Former QPR manager Harry Redknapp has decided that if England don’t win Euro 2016, they should just “give up.” The man who would’ve accepted the England job if it was offered to him made this proclamation on talkSPORT, but first he was asked about the last World Cup.

“I don’t know if I could have done any better,” Redknapp said of England’s winless, bottom of the group showing in Brazil. “But I couldn’t have done any worse.”

With that established, Harry was asked to look ahead. And he started out with a reasonable statement, though.

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