Posts Tagged ‘The Beautiful Game’

Euro 2008: Germany Advances

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

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Lets all welcome Germany as the first qualifier for the Euro 2008 Final after surviving the refuse-to-die Turkey, 3-2. I didn’t get to watch a whole lot of the stream but what I did see easily qualifies as great [...]

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Intentional Eye Candy: Laisa Andrioli Makes Soccer Beautiful

Friday, May 30th, 2008

By now, you’ve probably seen the pictures of Laisa Andrioli, a 20-year old soccer player for Brazil’s National Women’s team, going around the net. If not, you are in for a treat, especially when you consider her apparent allergies to articles of clothing. That’s right, Laisa made headlines and heads turn as she [...]

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Goal Posts Are Hazardous To Your Face

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I’ve acquired a number of injuries playing the beautiful game (although, I don’t play it that beautifully). I’ve blown my knee out and it looks like I might have torn my rotator cuff as well. I’ve even scored an on-goal; not be a physical injury to be sure but the psychological effects are [...]

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Soccer Commercials Rule

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

If the beautiful game is supposed to be so freaking boring (something I wholeheartedly disagree with), why does it allow the best damn sports commercials around? 2008 is only 5 months old and we’ve already had this one and now we have two more to add to the ever-growing pile of awesomeness.
This first [...]

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Sometimes, The Beautiful Game Is Just That

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

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 [...]

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