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Inter’s Stevan Jovetic scores with backheel nutmeg to beat Real Salt Lake
With the score even at 1-1 late in Inter’s friendly against Real Salt Lake, Steven Jovetic unleashed a finishing move that even the creators of Mortal Kombat would deem too cruel.
Jovetic, a man who has now proven himself to have absolutely no chill, executed a backheel nutmeg on the goalkeeper to give Inter a 2-1 win.
Again, this was just a friendly, but Jovetic is now the owner of Real Salt Lake and all the players are legally obligated to call him “Daddy.”
BREAKING: Jose Mourinho still thinks very highly of himself
If you thought getting sacked by Chelsea for a second time and seeing the team’s uptick in form under Guus Hiddink would have humbled Jose Mourinho, you must not know who we’re talking about.
Ahead of his scheduled visit to the San Siro this weekend to see former club Inter face Sampdoria, Mourinho made it clear that his ego has not been deflated by his current situation.
DTotD: Felipe Melo kicks Lazio player in the ear, gets sent off
“@Marcocalcio22: From bad to worse Felipe Melo sent off for this Karate Chop on Lukas Biglia pic.twitter.com/G1fGmH0q9M” IDIOT!
— petrichor (@glossolalia69) December 20, 2015
Felipe Melo, who you might remember as the man who used Arjen Robben as a doormat during the 2010 World Cup, is still finding creative ways to assault people with his feet after all these years. During Inter’s Serie A match against Lazio, Melo was shown a straight red for proving that he could use Lucas Biglia’s shoulder as a foot rest.
Inter lost 2-1.
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Inter fans taunt Juventus with dreamy tifo
Juventus came up one win short of becoming just the second Italian club to ever win the treble last season, but Barcelona were just too much for them to handle in the Champions League final.
In case Juve and their fans somehow forgot this bitter end to an otherwise stellar campaign, fans of the only Italian club to ever win the treble, Inter, produced a large tifo display to remind them before Sunday’s 0-0 draw in the derby d’Italia. It also included a subtle nod to Juve’s time in Serie B as a result of their Calciopoli punishment.
Football Shirt Friday: Bayern, Atletico, Inter, Aston Villa and Zenit being fancy
If Thomas Müller is primping his collar, it must be time for more football shirts.
The Rafa Benitez guide to becoming Real Madrid manager
Rafa Benitez is officially Real Madrid’s next future ex-manager. He has been given a three-year deal by the club where he started both his playing and coaching careers (both with the B team). And no, it’s not still 2006.
Winning two La Liga titles and a UEFA Cup with Valencia, then the Champions League and FA Cup with Liverpool gave him impressive credentials that still seem to overshadow what he’s done since getting sacked by Liverpool in 2010. That was five years ago. So what was his five-year plan to fall ass backwards into the dream job he wanted all along? Lets take a look.
Football Shirt Friday: Barcelona, PSG, Liverpool, and Wolfsburg’s tribute to Junio Malanda
Alvaro Morata is wearing sunglasses on the pitch now
The guy scores two goals to beat his former club in the Champions League semifinals and suddenly he’s wearing sunglasses on the pitch like he’s hot stuff. We see how it is, Alvaro Morata.
Meanwhile, life back in Serie A is not treating Roberto Mancini nearly as well. When Inter missed a chance to take a lead against Juve in the second half, Mancini ended up like this…
Javier Zanetti charity match features terrifying vegetable monster mascot
Inter legend Javier Zanetti hosted a charity match in Milan, featuring greats from both Milan clubs like Bobo Vieri, Paolo Maldini, Clarence Seedorf, Pippo Inzaghi, Cristian Chivu, and Andriy Shevchenko. But in addition to all these wonderful footballers, there was an abomination of nature — some kind of vegetable monster named Foody.