Posts under ‘Soccer’

Cristiano Ronaldo sings. Cover your ears.

I’d love to know who thought this was a good idea. Ronaldo’s manager? Ronaldo himself? Did someone tell him, “Listen, you’re cute and you’re a very good soccer player, but you can’t sing. At all.” Or did his Yes-Men just keep telling him yes? The raw footage is after the jump. Wow…

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Beckham condoms coming soon

For those of you looking for that special opportunity to have sex with David Beckham, your lucky chance is right around the corner! At a Rite-Aid. Well, not quite. The Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid is printing a photograph of Becks on condom packets available in Spain. The founder of the museum didn’t see anything scandalous [...]

Muslim team expelled from soccer league

Last week French Muslim soccer team Creteil Bebel refused to play a league match against Paris Foot Gay (right). Earlier this week, they decided to play the game. Now, the Muslim team has been expelled from the league permanently for refusing to play against another team in the league based on discriminatory reasons. According to [...]

Muslims now ready to play gays

Last week we reported on a Muslim soccer group in France that refuse to play a gay team in their league. Their refusal was based on their “principles.” Word comes now that the group has changed its mind and they will play the gay group. The Muslim team’s director said their initial refusal wasn’t based [...]

Muslims refuse to play gay Paris soccer team

A soccer club composed of Muslims refused to play a scheduled league game this week against a gay-oriented team from Paris, saying it would clash with its religious beliefs, the gay French site Tetu reports. (The article is available only in French, but online translators and English wire service versions confirmed the story).
“Sorry, but from [...]

Soccer goalie literally shrinks his goal

Imagine Shaq raising another team’s basket two inches. Serena Williams somehow repainting the lines on her side so her opponent had a smaller area to hit to. An umpire shrinking and expanding the strike zone depending on which team is at bat. That’s what Danish goalkeeper Kim Christensen did in a recent match for his [...]

Soccer fans force gay pride cancelation

We’ve reported in the past about the intense homophobia of many soccer fans in Serbia, and their hatred has claimed another victim. The gay-pride parade that was supposed to celebrate gay people in Belgrade on Sunday was canceled because so many groups of soccer fans had announced they would be attacking people in the parade [...]

Gays a target audience for Women’s Pro Soccer

Former Chicago Fire (of MLS) general manager Peter Wilt is now with Women’s Professional Soccer, the seven-team league you probably didn’t hear about when it kicked off its innaugural season in March. In an interview with ESPN.com, published yesterday, talked about the target market of WPS being suburban families. In talking about whether WPS could [...]

Column decries treatment of gays in soccer

It is still not that common when a mainstream columnist tackles head on homophobia in sports. So it was refreshing to read a strong piece by John Leicester, AP’s international sports columnist, where he decried the treatment of gays in soccer. He used as his jumping off point the absurd statements made by Italian coach [...]

Italy soccer coach: No to gay couples

Italian national soccer coach Marcello Lippi, who in January said there were no gay players in the Italian league, now says he would never pick two players for the national team if they were a gay couple. Reports AFP:
“In the current climate, two national team players could never be involved in an open relationship,” he [...]

Landon Donovan has swine flu

After losing 2-1 in a World Cup qualifying match in Mexico, American soccer star Landon Donovan has confirmed he contracted swine flu (now known as H1N1) while there. Now this piece of brilliance from Donovan, about whether he’ll play in the L.A. Galaxy’s next game: “If I feel well there’s no reason why I can’t [...]

Homophobia rampant in English soccer

A poll of 2,000 soccer fans in England found that  “70% had heard anti-gay abuse in grounds in the past five years and more than half felt authorities did not do enough about it.” A majority also thought that homophobia from fans is what keeps gay players in the closet.
“No one will ever come out [...]

Serbian gays asking FIFA for help

Some gay people in Belgrade, Serbia, are calling in FIFA to help curb soccer-based homophobic graffiti in the city. Messages advocating the murder of gays (the one to the right reads: “Death to faggots”), and signed by fans of Serbian soccer groups (South Gate is a group of Serbian fans), is apparently abundant in the [...]

Outgames hot jocks: Soccer players

If you like seeing two Danes and a Swedish soccer player strip to their Aussie Bums, then this photo gallery from the World Outgames is right up your alley.
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Photo: Joe Cox shows his namesake

From the Sporting News, via Deadspin, comes this profile of Georgia QB Joe Cox answering some questions (he likes Greek chicken wings and Halle Berry) and wearing a very tight uniform that leaves little to the imagination. Photo below not necessarily safe for work even though it appears in a mainstream pub:
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