OK, I know it’s the offseason for the European soccer leagues, and I also know there’s no World or UEFA Cup to be played this summer. The extended summer layoff, however, does not explain the explosion of European soccer stars appearing here and there in what can only be described as hot pants. [...]

I normally save my soccer/futbol/footie posts for things like the World Cup qualifying, weird goals and the Euro Cup. Essentially the big, “everybody’s watching” games, like, for instance, the UEFA Champions League Final, which takes place later on this afternoon. The match will be watched the world over, and when you consider the [...]

Thanks to this brilliant find by the The Beautiful Game, some of you non-soccer purists can see just how great the game really is when individual skill is on display like we have in the video below:

The first one is a brilliant strike, courtesy of a nifty volley. The end result made the goalie [...]