Come for the soccer, stay for the preschool-level gymnastics! The Africa Cup of Nations is underway, and based on this video of the Mozambique goalie flipping face first over the ball rather than securing it, it appears to be the only major soccer tournament to take place using a ball filled with lead. Somehow the goalkeeper managed to…

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I always thought Landon Donovan was hated with a vengeance south of the border, but apparently he is liked well enough that he was hired to appear in this Mexican lottery ad. The commercial is for Ganagol, a game in which players pick the winners of soccer matches. Donovan, dressed up in the most stereotypical Mexican costume…

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Every office has one idiot who sends out e-mails to huge mailing lists without checking to see if all of the recipients actually need to be receiving that e-mail. In Iran, that guy is Mohammad-Mansour Azimzadeh Ardebili, director of the Iranian soccer league's foreign relations office. Ardebili's office sent out a New Year's greeting to every country that belongs to FIFA…

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Jurgen Sierens of Roeselare in Belgium, made a nice save against Anderlecht last weekend. If that's all he had done though, you wouldn't be reading about it here. After stopping the shot, Sierens then flailed about as if he was practicing break-dancing moves, kicking the ball into his own goal in the process. It's play like…

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For all the criticism we give refs, they also put up with a lot of crap from players. Referee Bunny Reid of the Portsmouth Sunday league in England was walking past Levi Foster of AFC GOP prior to their match against Apsley House when the player did something quite offensive. Foster had bent over to make sure his boots were laced properly…

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